I can live with that--until and unless they find a machine that creates exploding tumors.
Oh, word to that one.
And I figured the Rift must have been a reset button--yet a few things weren't reset, like Jack's death, Gwen and the SUV being there, and the damage to the Torchwood complex. I know-picky, picky.
We'll go for "those closest to the rift damage weren't affected for the plot hole spackle attempt." ;) I know in a later episode, Jack bitches about things reset to an earlier time, so they have avoid themselves all day.
The creature was somewhat like the thing in "The Impossible Planet" and "The Satan Pit," but I'm still not clear on how they're related--or what locked them up. Those questions are probably too big to answer.
Bilis says something about Abaddon being the son of the great beast, which is taken to mean the son of the beast from the Doctor Who eps. In those eps, the beast (via the Ood, I think) says it has many names, among them Abaddon and Satan. The Torchwood web site (which usually adds some extra details, but it can't really be considered fully canon) asked "Were there other beings like Abaddon? Are they also entombed underneath planets across the universe?" -- that seems to be a direct reference to the DW ep.
I'm not strong in Celtic mythology either, but I'm a demon with Google. ;) Bilis is also used as a given name in Wales, so there's no real reason for Ianto and Gwen to have been disturbed by it. I've often heard TPTB love to play name and word games with various things, such as the origination of "Torchwood" as an anagram of "Doctor Who" so they're probably sneaking in some local mythology names that not all viewers would catch.
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Oh, word to that one.
And I figured the Rift must have been a reset button--yet a few things weren't reset, like Jack's death, Gwen and the SUV being there, and the damage to the Torchwood complex. I know-picky, picky.
We'll go for "those closest to the rift damage weren't affected for the plot hole spackle attempt." ;) I know in a later episode, Jack bitches about things reset to an earlier time, so they have avoid themselves all day.
The creature was somewhat like the thing in "The Impossible Planet" and "The Satan Pit," but I'm still not clear on how they're related--or what locked them up. Those questions are probably too big to answer.
Bilis says something about Abaddon being the son of the great beast, which is taken to mean the son of the beast from the Doctor Who eps. In those eps, the beast (via the Ood, I think) says it has many names, among them Abaddon and Satan. The Torchwood web site (which usually adds some extra details, but it can't really be considered fully canon) asked "Were there other beings like Abaddon? Are they also entombed underneath planets across the universe?" -- that seems to be a direct reference to the DW ep.
I'm not strong in Celtic mythology either, but I'm a demon with Google. ;) Bilis is also used as a given name in Wales, so there's no real reason for Ianto and Gwen to have been disturbed by it. I've often heard TPTB love to play name and word games with various things, such as the origination of "Torchwood" as an anagram of "Doctor Who" so they're probably sneaking in some local mythology names that not all viewers would catch.