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Not as bad as it could have been, but certainly the weakest episode so far. Basically it was the Torchwood equivalent of Love&Monsters.

Disappointed by the lack of Janto! (Jack/Ianto needs a name doesn't it)

The trailer for next week looks great though!

i disliked it. it best be the prelude to something big....maybe this was a set up episode and the eye will do something reallly interesting next episode. i thought that the storyline was a bit tenious, i mean...i know they knew him but why did they investigate it? its a simple hit and run and even if the eye is of interest i could have made the beginning part of the episode sum up wat happened. rather than it all be a bit like a incredibly dull and slow detective thriller....a distinct lack of aliens...supernatural and janto info.

next week has Owen sleeping with a woman from the past...maybe it will transpire he is his own grandfather! (like the futurama episode)

I have to agree...the episode was the weakest episode of the series so far. The trailer looks good for next week though. However, being an Owen and Gwen fan..i am very disappointed about the Owen thing. Oh well, i'll get over it.
Anyhow...it would be really wierd if he became his own grandfather.
And I am disappointed in the lack of Janto.

That's exactly what I thought when I first started watching it..."oh god, it's Love & Monsters all over again..."

But despite all the bad wrap here I really enjoyed it. I think it was most definately eluding to a Gwen/Gwyneth connection - RTD doesn't ignore it when he uses the same actor in connected shows. And I really think that was the point of the whole episode - as well as examining a 'real' person whose been effected by Torchwood/aliens.

As for the lack of other characters...well, Torchwood seems to focus on one character each episode. Day One was Gwen's story; Greeks Bearing Gifts was Tosh's story; the Cyberwoman one was Ianto's...this one happened to be Gwen's story again, that's all.

Anyone else find it ironic that it was a banana milkshake?

Hehe...banana milkshake! Good spotting wink

One other thing that got to me that episode was the video store guy saying (in scorn, but still) something along the lines of "alien with 6 eyes". How the hell did he know that? The only person who'd said anything about an alien having 6 eyes was Jack.
And who was the supposed alien-object collector that made the 15000 bid? A person like Van Statten, or a real alien?

With the afterlife thing...it didn't show him going towards a white light in the end, that was just his moving away from the earth into space, gradually fading to nothing...It had Eugene talking about living life now (the usual guff) ending with him saying "because in the end there's..." then nothing. A black screen.
Where Suzie has said much the same - there's nothing - darkness. She looked at death from a very negative point of view and had done bad things before she died; whereas Eugene was always positive - but they still both ended up in the darkness. In the end it's just the different POV's that made the experiences seem any different...that's what I felt about it anyway.

I thought it was by far the weakest episode and definitely the "Love and Monsters" of this series. I guess John Barrowman had to get a break at some point though.

They could have given us something to follow up on Jack/Ianto last week. Even some suggestive handling of the stopwatch and a winkwinknudgenudge sort of thing would be better than nothing. :/