Also I initially posted it as a Facebox note, but I'm jumpy about drawing too much attention to my account and obviously this is the most genius thing ever and clearly the Interwebs will come flocking to my door, so I felt like I should put it in a forum that contains less DEEPLY PERSONAL information (btw, if I don't want the world to see it, I don't post it on the internet. However, I am also paranoid as shit). Thus, let us move on to:
The Great Weevil Jumpsuit Conundrum Explained....Maybe
DISCLAIMER: If you haven't watched Torchwood but plan on doing so and don't like horrible spoilers, don't read this. If you haven't watched Torchwood and never plan on doing so, you also probably shouldn't bother reading this because you won't understand it and it'll probably bore the pants off of you. Basically, this all came about because of the wonder of Twitter. I tend to live-tweet (as if we could really dead-tweet anything) shows/movies I'm watching on my infoslab. Nichols pointed out that the real mystery of the Torchwood series is: why are Weevils all wearing matching jumpsuits?! He had a good point. Neither he, nor Julia, nor I could come up with a good explanation. No one ever questions it on the show and thus we never get a proper answer...
"In the Torchwood: De-Classified television special that covers this episode, Burn Gorman jokingly remarks that Owen will transform into the "King of the Weevils" if he isn't truly dead."
What this quotation (which I got from somewhere, maybe Wikipedia...really I don't remember and thus REFUSE TO CITE it) doesn't say is that he actually uses the phrase "find his way into the sewers and become King of the Weevils" and then busts into maniacal laughter. It was a particularly quality moment and it got me thinking, "wait...as King of the Weevils, Owen would have the power and influence to distribute jumpsuits...". However, the Weevils are jumpsuited at the very beginning of the show, so obviously THAT can't be the answer.
Then it hit me.
Duh! The space-time rift runs through the city! Obviously somehow he travels back in time (maybe because the radiation in his body resonates with some wave coming out of the rift, and blah, blah technobabble which I'm totally able/willing to come up with if you want) and distributes jumpsuits THEN! "Why?" you may ask. Two possible explanations:
1) All the events portrayed in the show happened exactly the same way except it was an alternate reality where all the Weevils were actually naked. After a while as King, Owen gets tired of seeing nothing but (as Nichols so eloquently put it) "Weevil peen" and goes back in time on purpose to distribute jumpsuits so future him won't have to live (or, you know, whatever it is he does in place of living) with seeing all Weevil nudity ALL THE TIME.
2) Owen becomes King of the Weevils, then gets transported back in time, but the Weevils in the past are naked! Again, he's not real down with this for whatever reason (I refuse to speculate on that here), and institutes jumpsuit distribution. Thus, all future Weevils (including all the ones the future Torchwood team encounters) are jumpsuited.
Either way, he could use his knowledge of what was once "the past" to make shit-tonnes of money, enough to build his own jumpsuit factory with specific delivery to Weevils (maybe they have a big sewer grate in the middle of the factory floor and finished product gets thrown in there) which explains why they're all matching.
My theory seemed to hold up, even through Children of Earth. In preparation for writing this note I went online to find pictures of Weevils sporting jumpsuits. Oddly enough, there aren't really many good images of this out there and the best one I found (the one that's posted) doesn't come from Torchwood at all. In fact, it comes from Doctor Who and is most definitely not in Cardiff....so WHY ARE THESE WEEVILS CLOTHED?! If Weevils are indeed an alien species and not simply endemic to Cardiff (and I'd like to point out that we're never given any real reason why this should be the case), then my theory should only hold up for Cardiff Weevils unless that low grade telepathy the Torchwood team speculates on works over long distances and Weevils all across the world travel to Cardiff to obey the jumpsuit dictate of their King. Also, if I remember correctly, this is something like a few thousand years in the past, so either these are time-traveling Weevils or the jumpsuits came from someplace OTHER THAN EARTH. Maybe these are Weevils from future Cardiff, recruited by other more technically advanced alien races and they bummed a ride on someone's ship. Then it occurred to me: wait...why do the Weevils even care about the Doctor?
At this point in time I finally acknowledged I was putting entirely too much thought into this and decided to cut it out. Also because looking at that picture reminds me how much I can't wait for Series 6 to start up. In conclusion, I leave you with this:
This subject has also been bothering me for some time now. I'm so glad I decided to google the question "why do weevils wear jumpsuits?" and stumbled across this post!
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