Torchwood 211

After finding out, that my copy of ep 210 had a serious glitch, I went directly to ep 211. And it was sad and depressing but very well done too. I mean, I think that Gwen really needed this lesson. She needed to realize that they couldn't help everybody, that she shouldn't put her job over her "real life" as Rhys put it, that sometimes people really didn't want what they thought they wanted - like the boy's mother - and that there were some things that she just wasn't entitled to know. I mean, she got so used to being an equal part of the team that I think that she forgot that Jack was her boss and she still had to take orders from him.

Though I must admit that her "I know best" attitude got on my nerves in this ep. I loved it when Jack told her that fine, they would do something to help those people - if she told him, practically, what they should do, if she gave him a practical solution, not just ravings about the unfairness of the whole situation. And there she just couldn't.

But the scene with the mum, when she told Gwen to promise her not to do it to anybody else - Gwen's crestfallen look just broke my heart :(

And as usually - Rhys is fantastic! Can I have a Rhys of my own?

Nagaru Tanigawa "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Vol. 1" (manga), #64

The story is hilarious and engaging, the characters funny and the dialogs pitch perfect - this is Haruhi Suzumiya after all and the manga follows the anime almost to the letter.

But! Yes, the big but is the manga's style. The anime was beautifully drawn - as you can see in the mood theme that I made - while the manga is average at best. It really can't compete with the show and it's just too bad. I think I will switch over to the light novels after all.

Light novels! Light novels!

Looking for the correct link to "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya", the light novel, I stumbled across many, many light novels that made me bounce of the walls! Especially:

"Yukikaze" by Chohei Kambayashi! Yukikaze, people! It's coming out Jan. 2010.

"Fafner: Dead Aggressor" by Tow Ubukata. I bawled my eyes out watching this anime!

And then there are others like "Trinity Blood" or "Shakugan no Shana". And I also own the first vol. of "Kyoh Kara Maoh!", hehe.

What I really hope to see in English one day is Clamp's "Soryuden" and Shindo Tatsuki's "Four Dragon Island" *crosses fingers*