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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cthulhudrew" data-source="post: 3171153" data-attributes="member: 4090">Okay- maybe I'm missing something, but I'm not sure I got the point to this episode.We start with Jack waking up and suddenly having a premonition that he needs to take care of this problem with fairies- whose presence he's known about for close to a century (possibly less, given time travel), but who he suddenly and unexplainedly decides are an urgent problem. Things happen, and in the end he lets the fairies take the chosen one, telling Gwen that "this is the only chance we have against them." So, basically, if he hadn't done anything- hadn't gotten Torchwood involved- there really wouldn't have been any difference in the way things worked out, except for Gwen's apartment not getting trashed, and (possibly) Estelle not getting killed. In other words, kind of a pointless episode.Also, I didn't get the throwaway line about "there won't be any more chosen ones" at the end. What was that all about?In other news, we get a little bit of back story on Jack- we see him going all the way back to 1909 now (though we have no explanation of why he wasn't killed along with the rest of his patrol on the train; I'd assume it was because he wasn't involved in the accident that killed the little girl, but he says that it was only a few men that were involved, yet the whole platoon died.) Estelle also mentions that he got back in touch with her "a couple of years ago", which would put his appearance on Earth post-Parting of the Ways prior to Rose. So why didn't he attempt to get in touch with the Doctor during the intervening period (as he's so eager to do, seemingly). Even if he was worried about altering the past by contacting the Doctor prior to their first meeting, he could have tried to get in touch with Rose's mom/Mickey/Rose herself sometime during what would be last season?Nice bit of Dr. Who continuity with the mention of the Mara, though.Aside from the evident pointlessness of this episode, I just found it rather boring. The pacing seemed really slow, the dramatic buildup and tension was nonexistent (to me)- I didn't really get much of an idea of the fairies as a threat. Even the attempts to "scare it up"- the green lens shots, the sudden dramatic declarations (Tosh declares "I've never seen anything like that before." Cut to Jack somberly declaring "I have" as the camera sloooowly pans upwards, lingering for just a little too long)- they just seemed like they were trying too hard to bring some pathos to a script that just didn't possess it.Then, too, I got tired of Tosh being constantly bewildered by the sudden weather changes, when Jack had explicitly told her that that was the fairies at work, and put her to watch on it for that reason. Having a Scully on a team whose purpose is to seek out and take care of alien life forms doesn't really work when the presence of those lifeforms is a known fact. It only barely works for Gwen, and that's because she's the newbie.I don't know if I'm going to watch next week's episode or not. This show just isn't really doing it for me, sadly. (Plus, I want happy Jack back.)</blockquote>

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