My best blog-buddy Minge has come up trumps and found this chat room discussing said episode and there are some excellent screen caps from the show on there. Check it out. I hope no one minds me "steeling" these pics but they need to be shared.
One thing I meant to say before, was that this sort of story should be told more often and in greater detail [and should be told in schools alongside true stories of Jewish, Muslim and all other oppression]. We need to hear true stories of how men had to deal with their feelings during times when being gay wasn't accepted or even legal. I think it was portrayed beautifully in this episode of Torchwood and would love to see it handled as well in other series', dealing with this and other eras.
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Great pics and I think I will nick them myself if you don't mind!!
I too thought that "Captain Jack Harkness" was one of the better episodes and great that they had a (fairly)explicit gay plot line. The tension and the build up between the two Jacks was well done. I agree that programmes like this can help teach people about being gay. Certainly back in the 1940s it was a lot more taboo, hence the way it was handled in the episode.
Some of the episodes, if not most of the, were utter shit. Sadly.
It's true, there were only a handful of decent ones. However the presence of the hot Captain Jack and Ianto did go some way toward compensating for this.
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