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Soldier What if you were ordered to?
Ian Can't imagine it.
Soldier Imagine it.
Ian (Imagines it.)
Soldier In the line of duty.
For your country.
Wales.
Ian (Imagines harder.)



In the liberated no-boundaries far future that Jack comes from, everyone is bisexual but trannies are still comical freaks.

Sacrificing a school-age child to evil fairies is the right thing to do, as long as the fairies tell you they're going to go away once they get their hands on her.

(Conversely: It appears Jack Harkness can plausibly bar evil fairies from staking their claim on said little girl by means of, basically, standing there and informing them he's not going to let them take her away.) (Not that this is necessarily as nonsensical as it might appear. I would venture to say that this is the sort of thing one can pretty much do, narrative-wise, if one is e.g. Captain Jack or John Constantine or Number Six [the one from The Prisoner].)

I hope that the Welsh-ness of this show will continue to have a (pop-)cultural impact not just "at home" but also on international TV viewers who often don't really understand that there are bits of the UK that aren't London. Speaking particularly as a resident of Bits of America That Aren't Los Angeles or Manhattan, I find it very much worth celebrating.

John Barrowman's American accent, however honestly come by, will never sound quite right when delivering British-penned TV dialogue.

The one with the evil alien lesbian could have been improved in various ways (including making some sort of interesting tactical use of the mind-reading powers in that climactic standoff), but at least it passed the Bechdel Test.

These people are really bad at being classified operatives. They are supposed to be classified in some way, right?

They don't actually make out with each other as much as I was expecting them to.
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