XD Yay for someone else spotting that! It drove me crazy the whole episode, because I was 99% sure it was her, but "Lisa...hunting...demons...THIS DOES NOT COMPUTE!"
Well, she is a strong woman in 'Torchwood' - has to be, for that much of herself to survive the Cyberman process. The sort of personality fits.
When I thought I recognised her, I stopped the show, got onto IMDB, and found it was indeed Lisa, was very amused, and got on with watching it. She has that very British accent that is not, at least as far as I could see, completely explained. I hope we see more of her.
On 'Torchwood', her character had a Welsh boyfriend; on 'Supernatural', she had a black Southern husband. Are racially mixed couples still that much of an issue that shows in the US don't randomly have them?
Personality-wise, the casting definitely fit and she was a great choice. I thought it was kind of cool to get a pseudo-look at what Lisa was like/might have been like had she survived. The only thing that made it "not compute" at all to me was it was just very surprising to me to see her there, given that even though they probably could, Torchwood and Supernatural aren't two fandoms I've seen overlap a lot.
Interesting point on the husband thing; I hadn't even thought of that. Honestly, from my perspective, I don't think they're an issue at all. The only thing that comes to mind as a reason the writers might have gone with making her husband black is to provide a contrast (with both her and her husband) to the only other black hunter we've seen in the show, Gordon Walker. Since Gordon's been established as a pretty loose canon, I think they may have wanted to offset that by showing there are other non-white hunters in the country who are a little more on the ball.
These two were definitely on the ball, apart from the part where they walked right into it. On the other hand, those are demons the like of which have not been seen since the Dark Ages. All the riff-raff that has been exorcised painfully and the hard way just got loose again, just like that.
I can see where her character, and her character's husband, seriously fail to respect the Winchesters for not stopping that.
Yes, I remember Gordon - he was that half-crazed vigilante murdering reformed vampires. The idea of reformed vampires, by the way, amused me a lot - they're so totally Discworld! On the other hand, the familiarity of that idea made Gordon seem all the more bigoted.-
And yes, 'Torchwood' and 'Supernatural' don't overlap well - because while there are many similarities, all supernatural occurrences on 'Torchwood' are in reality alien technology, and praying in Latin would help about as much as a wooden rifle, and shouting 'Bang-bang!'
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When I thought I recognised her, I stopped the show, got onto IMDB, and found it was indeed Lisa, was very amused, and got on with watching it. She has that very British accent that is not, at least as far as I could see, completely explained. I hope we see more of her.
On 'Torchwood', her character had a Welsh boyfriend; on 'Supernatural', she had a black Southern husband. Are racially mixed couples still that much of an issue that shows in the US don't randomly have them?
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Interesting point on the husband thing; I hadn't even thought of that. Honestly, from my perspective, I don't think they're an issue at all. The only thing that comes to mind as a reason the writers might have gone with making her husband black is to provide a contrast (with both her and her husband) to the only other black hunter we've seen in the show, Gordon Walker. Since Gordon's been established as a pretty loose canon, I think they may have wanted to offset that by showing there are other non-white hunters in the country who are a little more on the ball.
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I can see where her character, and her character's husband, seriously fail to respect the Winchesters for not stopping that.
Yes, I remember Gordon - he was that half-crazed vigilante murdering reformed vampires. The idea of reformed vampires, by the way, amused me a lot - they're so totally Discworld! On the other hand, the familiarity of that idea made Gordon seem all the more bigoted.-
And yes, 'Torchwood' and 'Supernatural' don't overlap well - because while there are many similarities, all supernatural occurrences on 'Torchwood' are in reality alien technology, and praying in Latin would help about as much as a wooden rifle, and shouting 'Bang-bang!'