Torchwood: Do You Gwack?
Torchwood: Do You Gwack?
Apr 07I’m a couple eppys behind on the U.S. run of Torchwood — just finished up the one with Gwen’s shapeshifter-plagued wedding (did anyone else wish she would have tried to cover up her sudden, mysterious pregnancy instead of telling the ‘rents? Wacky hijinks surely would have ensued!). Anyway, here’s what I really want to talk about: I have never quite bought into Gwack, the oh-so-poetically named Gwen/Jack ‘ship. Yet it seems like Torchwood really, REALLY wants me to buy into it, wants me to start my own fanfic page and do a YouTube mash-up and the whole nine yards. Right?
But I don’t know…their longing looks have just never felt quite as organic to me as, say, Gwen’s sweet domesticity with Rhys or Jack’s triple entendre-laced banter with Ianto. Both are appealing characters, but they don’t really go together, you know, that way. It’s always seemed a bit like Male Lead + Female Lead Must Absolutely = AWESOME ‘SHIP. YOU WILL BELIEVE THIS EVENTUALLY.
But, but…here’s another but (Jack would have something to say about that — hey!). The final scene of this particular episode made me buy into Gwack just a little bit. I mean, shit. “Will you miss me?” “Always.” Oh my God…miss me, too, Captain Jack!! The spark that should have been there all along was definitely present in this tiny little exchange, in this sweet, brooding slow dance. I’m not quite ready to proclaim my allegiance to Gwack entirely, but I can at least see it.
All this makes me curious as to what the general fan consensus is on Gwack. Please tell me if you have an opinion.
EDIT: Of course, Urban Dictionary has a kind of hilarious definition of “Gwack.” Just the first one — don’t read the other ones, they’re not as good.
