Post by artemis on Mar 30, 2008 15:10:01 GMT -5
like Liz, i really really liked this episode. i was wondering if i'd be the only one here who did, and was happy to see i'm not quite alone. ;D i loved the carnival/cinema vibes, and the whole more general early 20th century feel/look - i thought the atmosphere and everything cinematographic and all was really nicely done, down to pearl being in the empty pool that seemed to be from around the turn of the last century - and i liked how we had some questions answered and others left hinted at or completely unanswered. i also got more of a jack/ianto vibe than it seems most other people did - it seemed to me to fit in with what ianto said to owen in a recent episode (was it "a day in the death"?), that he and jack weren't like what people thought they were. i got this gentle/tender vibe in their scenes, including that they tell and show each other things that the others don't know about.
one of the minor unanswered (as far as i know) things: i saw in one of the flashbacks that the sign read that it was "The Joshua Joy Travelling Show". i wonder if the ghostmaker was joshua joy and if not, if joshua joy is going to figure into something in a future episode. a couple larger ones: i wonder who jack was undercover for, and why ianto knows the psychatric hospital (and if he or a loved one was in it at some point, that puts yet another level of creepy on what adam did to ianto).
i rewatched the doctor who episode "blink" before watching this and i thought they were a nice double header, both about being seen but in opposite ways - in one the point is to never be seen, and in the other the point is to eternally have an audience.
and my last thought for now: i've been reading and watching supernatural themed stuff for most of my life and it seems like the created world almost always includes some kind of afterlife, and i thought this episode was neat in being so illustrative of how this world is a different one than typical. to make the ghosts they had to take all but the last breath - had to not quite kill them - and once they were dead, the ghosts disappeared. at least as far as i've personally seen/read, that kind of idea is pretty uncommon and i thought it was neat.
one of the minor unanswered (as far as i know) things: i saw in one of the flashbacks that the sign read that it was "The Joshua Joy Travelling Show". i wonder if the ghostmaker was joshua joy and if not, if joshua joy is going to figure into something in a future episode. a couple larger ones: i wonder who jack was undercover for, and why ianto knows the psychatric hospital (and if he or a loved one was in it at some point, that puts yet another level of creepy on what adam did to ianto).
i rewatched the doctor who episode "blink" before watching this and i thought they were a nice double header, both about being seen but in opposite ways - in one the point is to never be seen, and in the other the point is to eternally have an audience.
and my last thought for now: i've been reading and watching supernatural themed stuff for most of my life and it seems like the created world almost always includes some kind of afterlife, and i thought this episode was neat in being so illustrative of how this world is a different one than typical. to make the ghosts they had to take all but the last breath - had to not quite kill them - and once they were dead, the ghosts disappeared. at least as far as i've personally seen/read, that kind of idea is pretty uncommon and i thought it was neat.