Drabble: Bad Timing

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Title: Bad Timing

Author: badly_knitted

Characters: Jack, Ianto, Owen, Gwen.

Rating: G

Written For: Challenge 370: Old Age at tw100

Spoilers: Nada.

Summary: Alien technology doesn’t always cause problems at convenient moments.

Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.

Torchwood’s latest brush with alien technology had resulted in Owen and Gwen being de-aged. It was unfortunate timing as Tosh was in Japan visiting her family.

“Look, we’ve seen things like this before,” Jack told them. “Tosh always makes comprehensive notes on all technology she studies. You’ve got nothing to worry about, I’ll soon have you both back to normal.”

Famous last words.

An hour later, Jack had managed to reverse the de-aging, resulting in two of his agents becoming old age pensioners somewhat prematurely.

“Oh well. At least they’re not kids anymore,” Ianto sighed. “Back to the drawing board.”

The End

Comments

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

I think it was good having the weeping angels as a one off baddie but when Moffat brought them back over and over again, they seem less scary.

I'm surprise the Doctor has never read social etiquette book. Maybe he thought because of his intelligent that he could just improvised. I liked the reference to Sarah Jane on one of the cue cards.

This scenario is used on other shows too. I saw it done on "Monk" where he made out conversational cue cards.

Twelve seems to lack the charm of Ten and Eleven but they both could be blunt too when people aren't able to follow or understand what he means.

Ten would give a speech about his credentials and challenge people. It worked in "Voyage of the Damaged. Not so much in "Midnight". Because he thinks his brilliant, he just assumes everyone else will too.

Eleven: I'm making perfect sense, you're just not keeping up.

Twelve negotiating skills are just different. But may not suit everyone. There's still room for growth though.

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The Doctor gains and loses skills and personality traits from one regeneration to the next. He's always feeling his way when he changes, trying to work out who he is now.

I like the Weeping Angels. In some ways they got scarier because the seemed more malevolent in some of the later episodes.

I liked Ten's speeches, especially the one in Voyage of the Damned. It gave me chills =)

He probably has, but proper etiquette changes from one time period to another and from one planet to another. I think it would be hard to know always what the proper behaviour was

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

You never know what your gonna get with a new carnation. But the essence of the Doctor will always be the same.

Ten said that regeneration is like death and that another man goes slaughtering away.

When the Weeping Angels catch you off guard they are scary. But if you knew they were coming, couldn't there be a way to stop them. Like smashing them with something hard?.

Ten was so determined that you hoped he would follow through with his promises. He said sorry so many times that it sometimes lost weight. I didn't like how he had to say it to Donna. But I get why there was no other way to handle it.

The Doctor would have to do proper research before hand to understand a planets customs etc. Like a phrase book when you go to another country your not familiar with.