TW 206: Reset

What is this? Novel-to-TV-a-rama? Slow Decay makes it to the screen, and brings with it big events! Definite spoilers below.


A cure for disease that infests the body with an alien insect... yep, it is Slow Decay. The plot is very straight-forward, medical murder mystery that leads to Institute Of EVIL! which is then put out of our misery. (Interesting point: in Meat, Jack was all about setting the large unwieldy Space Whale free. Here, all the creatures are easily mobile, and yet Jack goes 'kill 'em all!'.)

But, frankly, who cares, 'cos look, there's Martha! Yay! The only decent companion the new series produced (unfortunately can't count Sally as a compantion...) crosses over to the other side, and brings a splash of competence with her. And we get to enjoy her for a few more episodes yet. (Phew, fortunate that they had a spare doctor, eh? Although I am looking suspiciously at the box and thinking of the glove...)

Yes, let's talk about it (and this is MEGA SPOILERS): Owen. Finally, the Tosh/Owen relationship moves on, although one wonders if this was incredibly forced given what happens at the end of the episode, a sort of 'let's move this on so we can have more tragedy' move. Owen falls victim to the de-defibrillator death, same as the woman in the hospital did, by which I mean as soon as something terrible happens, the immediate response is to forgo any chance of resuscitation and just pronounce the person death. Can I have a competent medical crew nearby when I suffer my heart attack instead of these fools please? But I am wondering if this will stick, wouldn't be the first time we've had a shock death that was later reversed...

So another character piece under a thinly disguised plot. Can we stand any more of these?


Next Week: Another Life, I'm guessing. But failing that, Death makes an appearance!

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