That Time Chibnall Re-Invented The Master 

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Anyone else wish we’d gotten a couple of episodes at the start of Season 2 without Jack being there? They make a big deal about Jack not being there only to go “OOP! He’s back!” 5 minutes later

Very secretive organisation with their name-branded handguns.

So the line where jack said photo copying your butt I legit got an ad for a local office supply place almost died 😅😂

I love the fact that you compared Gwen to Amy cause I feel like a lot of Amy fans brush over how horribly she treated Rory during their travels with the Doctor

I disagree with you. The episode SHOULD start with them not being able to pull through without Jack. They should be reaffirmed in the notion that they're nothing without Jack. And then at the end of the episode, they succeed without him. That's how you write a character arc.

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I really want a doctor who story about the time agency (on the tv show not from big finish because they’ve probably done it already) because we know basically nothing about the organisation and what they do, only really popping up when the writers need a time traveler or time travel related mechanics that are separate from the doctor.

I'm glad you're doing Torchwood series 2 before the Doctor Who series 4 specials, I'm not emotionally ready to say goodbye to the Tenth Doctor yet. Though I am looking forward to hearing your opinions on Moffat's era being that we are both such RTD fanboys :D

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The comment about not properly setting stuff up was also a Moffat issue too. So many characters and ideas just dropped out of nowhere and ultimately disappeared unresolved. Neither chibnal nor moffat seem to understand that for something to be a mystery you need to care enough to ask questions. Just not telling us what’s going on doesn’t make something a mystery and making use of a plot device you haven’t set up just feels so deus ex machina.

i know this is a really small thing lmao but i think the line about office romances and jack liking offices was meant to be awkward. like ianto doesn't acknowledge it, even cutting him off, so i think it's like jack trying to act like nothing's happened and slip back into things just being as they were as a team and all that however he clearly can't because he's just been away for months, you get what i mean?

Best line in the episode? "That's a poodle." after Captain John says something like "Hey, sexy!"

"Hey kids, ya miss me" Thats a line straight from Buffy season 3 where she first turns up in that season. Yet another shout out to that series and the influence it had on this.

The Big Finish story Broken is about how Jack and Ianto begin as a couple, set between some of the series 1 stories so we can see how Ianto truly feels, like how the events of Countrycide affected him.

James Martsers was such a great casting as Captain John. He's so great at playing an antagonistic role, which he later demonstrated once again in Marvel's Runaways as the abusive father and murdering cult worshipper Victor Stein.

I think for once you gave Chibnall more credit than I did. I kinda wrote John off as just Sci-fi Spike. Old friends turned enemies was the dynamic Spike had with Angel (who reminded me of both the 9th Dr and Jack) though it's also obviously Master and the Doctor- "we'd be emperors" even sounds like a Master line. It makes sense that Jack has a Master of his own after coming from meeting the Dr's dark reflection. It's interesting that when Chibnall actually writes the Master he essentially goes for the Deadly Assassin model as opposed to the kind of characters Simm and Masters played.

The cold opening was actually written by Russel T Davies as he wasn’t just meant to write the opener but had actually started, only to then drop out for having no ideas

I know I am later then normal commenting. I have been at work all day. forgive me. I like this opening. the first few scenes with the chase are so chaotic but in the best possible way. I also love how awkward Jack gets when he asks Ianto out on a date. This suave, swashbuckling, charismatic hero is suddenly all flustered and awkward. It is kind of adorable

I don't want, I need John Hart to return in a new Torchwood season.