This Month's Spotlight

Lucky us!  While traipsing through the channels, we decided to tune into "Sci-Fi Saturday" on BBC America.  I had never really watched the old "Doctor Who", but I did once catch a recent episode of "Dr. Who" with David Tennant (who played Barty Crouch, Jr. in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire").  I decided, after that episode, to tune into "Torchwood", and boy, am I glad I did!

The show is about a group of secret operatives-- government-condoned? (this isn't clear)-- whose job is to look into any freaky event that may or may not involve aliens or alien technology.  Led by Captain Jack Harkness, the fivesome includes Gwen, a London cop who stumbled upon the group investigating the death of a young man and using an alien "resurrection glove" to momentarily bring him back to life; Toshiko, a pretty but somewhat geeky asian girl who appears to be able to hack any computer system; Owen, a pansexual medic; and Ianto, who seems to have a photographic memory, but doesn't appear to be used as anything more than Jack's love interest.  Oh, yes-- that is one of the more interesting things about this series:  the lead, a man whose real name isn't truly known (I'll explain below) and who seems to be unable to die (as yet explained fully), is apparently bisexual, though all the trysts I've seen so far involve men.  Perhaps this is appropriate, as John Barrowman, who IS gay, plays Jack Harkness.

And boy, is he easy on the eyes!  Scottish, as I, the man is the hottest thing in a kilt.  He actually started on "Dr. Who" as his current character, for about five episodes.  One interesting thing about this season:  apparently, James Marsters, who played "Spike" on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", is going to be a repeat character on "Torchwood"!  If I understood the one episode in which he appeared to date, he and Cap'n Jack are time jumpers of sorts, and they got stuck in some vortex for two weeks-- five years for them, but only two weeks in real time-- and what a five year period it must have been! They were arguing which was the "wife" and which was the "husband", and you knew they meant sexually, as in one scene, James's character grabs Captain Jack for a passionate kiss.

This isn't the only same sex kiss.  As I stated above, Captain Jack is hot and heavy with Iando, and Toshiko had a very hot scene with another woman--though she really has the hots for Owen.  Owen had an alien aphrodisiac in the form of a cologne that not only attracted a woman he wanted to jump, but the woman's boyfriend.  We have every indication that Owen went home with both of them!   Even Gwen, whose boyfriend is the loveable Rhys, got into a lesbian lip lock.  Fortunately, we usually see her either with Rhys, or pining after Captain Jack--but then again, who isn't!  And yet, there are times when even Jack loses his heart, as in a fantastic episode where the team crossed over into World War II, and  Captain Jack met... Captain Jack (aha...so that isn't his real name...little by little we learn!).  Not only met him, but fell in love with him.  Poor WWII Jack was fated to die in a matter of days according to history (we get the impression that OUR Captain Jack researched him in taking his name as his identity).  And WWII Jack was "in the closet"--until close to the end of the episode, when he and our Jack gave a "screw 'em all" attitude and clasped each other for a romantic dance and kiss before our Jack and his team returned to their time and WWII Jack went to his doom.

TORCHWOOD.... they're on the lookout!