People tend to react in a very knee jerk manner in the aftermath of an episode airing. I think Jack has always believed himself to be a coward deep down and that in times of emotional stress he falls back on that - he's a coward, he always has been so why shouldn't he run away? Of course he isn't that man and hasn't been for a long time but he still thinks he is
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I wasn't blown away by CoE - drained would be a better description.
For Torchwood to continue it will have to feature John in some form but they proved with this episode that John doesn't necessarily have to heavily feature for the show to work. He essentially wasn't in Day 2 and didn't do a whole lot in days 3 and 4. His screentime was relatively minimal. They could easily continue the series having Captain Jack make little but cameos in some episodes.
Torchwood through the ages with Jack as the only constant would be a show I'd happily watch. Especially as if it was cast sufficiently strongly JB wouldn't have to be necessarily strongly featured (if he wanted time off).
And to further your comments about Stephen, honestly, after they killed Ianto, I kept everything else at a distance. I was literally grieving and had put up a wall around myself so I could get through the last episode in the vague hope that it was a fakeout death, as so many have been in RTD's world. Alas, it was not to be
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Day 4 tore me up. Day 5 inevitably wasn't going to be as emotionally draining but it still had its moments (Frobisher's death - the army taking the children). I'm afraid I was never hoping for a reset - the world of Children of Earth (apart from the aliens) was hyper real - not a world in which the likes of the Risen Mitten exists.
I'm not quite sure what the point of Clem was. OK so they worked out how to kill the 456 through him but his story was a miserable one - orphaned, sacrificed by his government, homeless, institutionalised and then killed by aliens. Geez - fun!
Constant doom and gloom is just wearing - it was the characters that loved and RTD has decimated virtually all of them.
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For Torchwood to continue it will have to feature John in some form but they proved with this episode that John doesn't necessarily have to heavily feature for the show to work. He essentially wasn't in Day 2 and didn't do a whole lot in days 3 and 4. His screentime was relatively minimal. They could easily continue the series having Captain Jack make little but cameos in some episodes.
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I'm not quite sure what the point of Clem was. OK so they worked out how to kill the 456 through him but his story was a miserable one - orphaned, sacrificed by his government, homeless, institutionalised and then killed by aliens. Geez - fun!
Constant doom and gloom is just wearing - it was the characters that loved and RTD has decimated virtually all of them.
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