#towen

[felicitykings]

NAOKO MORI & BURN GORMAN as Toshiko Sato and Owen Harper

TORCHWOOD (2006-2011) ↳ 2.04 Meat

[doctorwhommm]

got silly with this one ◡̈

[victoryshowers]

comp

[iamsuperwholocked]

Owen: Must be hard not being able to laugh

Ianto: I do have a sense of humor you know

Owen: I’ve never heard you laugh before

Ianto: I’ve never heard you say anything funny

[foolforlover]

someone help me I can't stop thinking abt the script for Adam. silly old me. oh she's so pleased. the tiniest of remnants.

[polychromatiica]

finally i made smth that wasnt a screenshot redraw (also rbs appreciated !! im super proud of this)

[timey-acey222]

why do my favourite ships always have tragic endings

[spicysaucesteaks]

i rewatched owen, tosh, and ianto's death scenes for an edit and i started yapping in the tw discord (but i thought i'd share my thoughts here as well)

the camera pans out

in both owen's (first) death scene, tosh's death scene, and ianto's death scene the camera pans out as they lie dying on the floor. the panning out it reflects both the grandness and the smallness of their deaths in the great scheme of things. they matter because we know them and love them (close up) but the world is bigger than them and the loss the character's who are left behind suffer (panning out).

we are seeing them in their last moments, owen struggling to breathe as he slowly bleeds out on the street, tosh smiling wistfully as owen says his final goodbye, and ianto finally giving up and accepting the inevitable (we get a close up AFTER he's died as well which is interesting - it's also the one i used here). the close-ups are their final goodbyes, the last emotions they'll ever feel.

and then we switch to a medium shot (i think - i'm not as much of a film nerd as i'd like) showing... drum roll please...

2. the people present!

in both owen and tosh's death scenes there are multiple people surrounding them (for owen it's gwen, tosh, and jack (i think) and for tosh it's gwen and jack). but jack is the only other person present when ianto dies. literally SHOWING how jack gradually loses people.

when gwen pulls back the sheet revealing ianto's body it's shot (framed?) in the same way: close up, and then it pans out. although it does switch to a medium wide shot and then back to a close up when jack wakes up.

panning out can also be used to finalize a moment. the finality of death and the inherent meaninglessness of their deaths are embodied in the way the scenes are shot. idk i just think this show can be pretty great sometimes.

[screaming-sparrow]

the vocabulary of torchwood

[ebenelephant]

toshiko. baby. sat through all of 2×06&7 manifesting that martha would sit her down and be like,

"tosh, sweetheart, i know what its like to be hopelessly in love with a man who is your friend but also denser than a brick and honestly callous and heartbroken. shoot your shot."

like girl i have seen you having a modicum of rizz, we all watched you fuck the alien chick. I know she was trying to use you, but it's not as if you were a hopeless case for fucks sake. and yet. and YET.

you work at TORCHWOOD. if there is anywhere in the world to casually suggest hooking up with a colleague and be able brush it off, its torchwood 3, especially with owen. the lack of game is astounding

[felicitykings]

Okay, you're telling me it's going into meltdown, aren't you? And I'm in the eye of the storm. Yeah, sorry.

TORCHWOOD (2006-2011) ↳ 2.13 Exit Wounds

[crime-wives]

hello tumblr, behold my creation

[victoryshowers]

i clog the torchwood tag up i think sry

[iamsuperwholocked]

Jack: *does something dumb*

Ianto: I can’t believe I’m going to sleep with him.

Gwen: You don’t have to.

Ianto: No, I’m gonna.

[cosmoshunger]

If I had a nickel for every time I fell in love with a wisecracking womaniser character hiding simmering anger and despair after losing a loved one to the supernatural, who then joined a small team of operatives working with the supernatural to better understand what happened to their loved one, who had a love interest within the team who was an intelligent and capable researcher but died whilst they were stalling on actually entering a real romantic relationship, who started off with a positive relationship with their boss which slowly deteriorated as they became more and more depressed and disillusioned, who died by having their body obliterated whilst helping their boss save the world which was the turning point before the final seasons where the show lost its original core cast, and was also bisexual, I would have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but I’m worried what the fact that it happened twice says about me.

[cupids-loveletter]

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