Something Borrowed

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I have just watched the latest episode of Torchwood, which is keeping up the high standards of the last few. This story centres around the wedding of Gwen and Rhys - Kai Owen (who is probably the second most attractive guy in the show after Ianto - Gareth David-Lloyd).

On the night before the wedding, Gwen is bitten by a shapeshifter that she is chasing. The creature is killed by Cap'n Jack and they think that is the end of it. Gwen then goes on to her hen night party where we briefly see she has a stripper (far too briefly for my liking!). In the morning she wakes to find out that she appears to be about 8 1/2 months pregnant!! I loved the look on her face when she sees herself in the mirror.

Deciding to go ahead with the wedding anyway, she needs a new dress. Ianto is the obvious choice to go shopping for this and even holds the dress up to himself to look at it in the shop mirror as he chooses one! Nice.

Rhys' best mate Banana Boat, played by Jonathan Lewis Owen,(named "for obvious reasons" which eluded me!) was not bad looking, though not seen that much.

Jack is miffed that Ianto seems to agree with everything that Owen is saying "now that he is dead," and explains that he "was brought up not to speak ill of the dead, especially when the dead was still doing most of the talking!"

But Nerys Hughes was a star, although she has appeared in Dr Who continuity before (which does bug me as a sci-fi fan) she was brilliant as Rhys' overbearing mother. At one point the team think that she is the second alien shape-shifter and Jack burst into a hotel room shouting "Get away from her you ugly bitch!" Unfortunately it turns out that it was Rhys' real mother and so Jack ends up getting a punch in the mouth for his efforts.

At the party after the wedding, while dancing with Gwen, she asks him "What will you do while I'm gone?" to which he replies, "Oh, the usual. Pizza. Ianto...." After this episode I am liking Jack less and less for his lusting after Gwen while he and Ianto are still "together." Not a nice person. Ianto is so obviously in love with Jack as shown when he cuts in when Jack and Gwen are dancing to dance with Jack instead of Gwen, seemingly oblivious to how they feel about each other. It isn't going to end well.