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happydalek) wrote2008-02-29 07:07 pm
happydalek) wrote2008-02-29 07:07 pm
Torchwood 2.7 & 2.8
Wow, this series is so made of win. I hated Torchwood the first time around because it was so made of awkward and stupid, but wow! have they got their act together this time, or what?!
OwenZombie is, quite simply, the coolest thing EVAR. I've played around with this notion myself, and it was soooo cool seeing Owen demonstrate all the very real problems/advantages someone in his situation would have. I particularly loved it when Owen forced himself to puke up his beer: "THAT IS THE SINGLE MOST DISGUSTING THING I HAVE EVER SEEN," says Jack, who looks like he's trying desperately not to crack up. :) Win. Such win.
But now, I must pick nits.
1. If Owen cannot breathe, then how is he able to talk?? I see no reason, under the circumstances, why Owen should not have been able to administer CPR to the dying old man (name has escaped me). If anything, Owen's breath should be even more helpful since the oxygen is not crossing over into his blood and exchanging for carbon dioxide. What he exhales would be the same air he inhaled. Bottom line, if Owen could talk, then Owen could breathe, ergo, he should have been able to perform CPR. (Not to say that would have saved the old man anyway. Dude was pretty far gone.)
2. Speaking of blood, Owen's is not flowing. His hand did not bleed when he sliced it with the scalpel. His heart is not pumping. So exactly how were Jack and Martha going to kill him permanently by injecting him with syringes of formaldehyde? What they'd have needed to do was insert a catheter to drain Owen's blood, and insert another to administer the formaldehyde. The vacuum created by the exiting blood would have drawn in the formaldehyde and distributed it through his body. A simple injection wouldn't have done squat. Ask a mortician.
3. Owen says in 2.8, when Martha is stitching up his hand, that he cannot feel anything. His tactile sense is dead. This is a little tricky, but if you think about it, that means Owen should be having lots of issues with clumsiness. If he can't feel it when his feet hit the ground, how come he isn't constantly falling over? How could he manage the detailed work of stitching his hand? Sure, over time he might adapt to manage without it, but surely not to this extent so soon after the fact.
4. He's got really good color for a dead guy. Without his heart working, all of Owen's blood and body fluids would be draining down into his legs and feet. He'd be bloated and stiff and have some major difficulty moving his legs. Maybe the fact that he's moving around a lot is mitigating this. (Possibly Martha devised some kind of exercise program that involves periodic headstands?)
Clearly, I've spent far too much time studying the physics of corpses, and considering the source, this story arc has been remarkably good with its facts. Not to mention it's been an incredible story, to boot. Next week looks to be no disappointment, either: "You've got an alien egg in your belly"; "It eats people"; "I'm not an alien!"
But now, I must pick nits.
1. If Owen cannot breathe, then how is he able to talk?? I see no reason, under the circumstances, why Owen should not have been able to administer CPR to the dying old man (name has escaped me). If anything, Owen's breath should be even more helpful since the oxygen is not crossing over into his blood and exchanging for carbon dioxide. What he exhales would be the same air he inhaled. Bottom line, if Owen could talk, then Owen could breathe, ergo, he should have been able to perform CPR. (Not to say that would have saved the old man anyway. Dude was pretty far gone.)
2. Speaking of blood, Owen's is not flowing. His hand did not bleed when he sliced it with the scalpel. His heart is not pumping. So exactly how were Jack and Martha going to kill him permanently by injecting him with syringes of formaldehyde? What they'd have needed to do was insert a catheter to drain Owen's blood, and insert another to administer the formaldehyde. The vacuum created by the exiting blood would have drawn in the formaldehyde and distributed it through his body. A simple injection wouldn't have done squat. Ask a mortician.
3. Owen says in 2.8, when Martha is stitching up his hand, that he cannot feel anything. His tactile sense is dead. This is a little tricky, but if you think about it, that means Owen should be having lots of issues with clumsiness. If he can't feel it when his feet hit the ground, how come he isn't constantly falling over? How could he manage the detailed work of stitching his hand? Sure, over time he might adapt to manage without it, but surely not to this extent so soon after the fact.
4. He's got really good color for a dead guy. Without his heart working, all of Owen's blood and body fluids would be draining down into his legs and feet. He'd be bloated and stiff and have some major difficulty moving his legs. Maybe the fact that he's moving around a lot is mitigating this. (Possibly Martha devised some kind of exercise program that involves periodic headstands?)
Clearly, I've spent far too much time studying the physics of corpses, and considering the source, this story arc has been remarkably good with its facts. Not to mention it's been an incredible story, to boot. Next week looks to be no disappointment, either: "You've got an alien egg in your belly"; "It eats people"; "I'm not an alien!"
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