Yay! Crack!

Okay, so the more bits and pieces of the upcoming Torchwood season I see the more ridiculously excited I get. It appears they are throwing arms wide to embrace the cheese in a way that makes me so happy. It's one of those show that I think works best when it leaves the heavy lifting to us and focuses on throwing down the shiny, shiny crack. The idea of the characters and the setting are chock full of potential toys to play with (and such pretty toys they are) as serious or as goofy as we'd like...but I think that's weighed down a bit when the show takes itself too seriously. It appears that may not be an issue this season. Hurrah!

And they are giving me more Martha, which is just never, ever a bad thing ever. When does she show up? Does anyone know so I'm not sitting there going "Okay, now? I can has Martha now? What about now?" the whole time?

ETA: Martha specific spoiler in comments

of vampires and mercy

I thought maybe I was going to manage a Buffy rewatch without any thinky posts about Spike. Ha. Like that was going to happen. 'Cause I want to talk about Giles and Robin's plan to, erm, deal with Spike in Lies My Parents told me. I remember at the time it aired feeling completely out of step with most of the reactions to this episode on both sides of the fence. ( More blather behind the cut )