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They Keep Killing Suzie
Since I know some of you out there are really interested, in the Torchwood episode "They Keep Killing Suzie," the ISBN they mention is for The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, not the collected poems of Emily Dickinson like they claim. I'm going to take a wild guess and say that's the book the writer was using as a reference at the time.
And while I'm at it, that's the stupidest plot twist I've ever heard.
1 - If that was the failsafe code Suzie used, how the fucking fuck would anybody ever figure that out? I would have assumed the numbers were page or poem numbers before I thought it was the ISBN.
2 - An author like Emily Dickinson, who is in the public domain, has been published in dozens of different collections. The chance that they found the same book Suzie used is almost non-existant.
3 - Jack said the lockdown was caused by Max saying that line from Emily Dickinson over and over hundreds of times. So why didn't they try the next line hundreds of times? (I'm just going to ignore the implausibility of Suzie planning this and Jack figuring it out in the first place.)
4 - Nobody could quote the rest of the poem? Seriously--nobody?
5 - Didn't they learn the lesson about lockdown four episodes ago? What happened to that lockpicking thing?
That still was probably the best constructed Torchwood episode. Yeah. That's Torchwood for you.
And while I'm at it, that's the stupidest plot twist I've ever heard.
1 - If that was the failsafe code Suzie used, how the fucking fuck would anybody ever figure that out? I would have assumed the numbers were page or poem numbers before I thought it was the ISBN.
2 - An author like Emily Dickinson, who is in the public domain, has been published in dozens of different collections. The chance that they found the same book Suzie used is almost non-existant.
3 - Jack said the lockdown was caused by Max saying that line from Emily Dickinson over and over hundreds of times. So why didn't they try the next line hundreds of times? (I'm just going to ignore the implausibility of Suzie planning this and Jack figuring it out in the first place.)
4 - Nobody could quote the rest of the poem? Seriously--nobody?
5 - Didn't they learn the lesson about lockdown four episodes ago? What happened to that lockpicking thing?
That still was probably the best constructed Torchwood episode. Yeah. That's Torchwood for you.