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That was amazing. I'm pretty much certain that that means there won't be a series four, but I'm actually happy about that. I was really pissed about Ianto dying yesterday, but as a finale to the whole show, I think it worked. This was the most amazing series, and I think they should go out on a high (actually, floods of tears, but you know what I meant).
So, from the beginning. Gwen's film, although I saw it in one of the preview clips, was absolutely chilling. As soon as Frobisher got that box, I thought it was some kind of suicide drug thing. I didn't think it was a gun, but I was along the right lines. PC Andy was amazing, as usual, I really love him. Gwen and the children was just the best. I really felt all Jack's pain, you could see it behind his eyes and it really, really hurt. I started crying when the army people took the first children from the schools, and didn't stop crying throughout the whole of the rest of the episode. Pretty much everyone in that cabinet room was a complete bastard, and I kind of never saw the point of Dekker. Johnson proved to be good, and I ended up liking her. I can't believe Jack would sacrifice his own grandson when he holds family so dear, even to save the world - he was willing to give up the children for Ianto - but I think he was just too broken by that point to care. I loved Rhys too, he was fantastic. Yay for Bridget, in the end. I never liked her, but I'm glad she helped. It was really painful in places, and there were some times when I was like, need Ianto, but it was a really painful subject. I've probably missed out some things I really wanted to mention, but I really just want to talk about the last scene.
I didn't suspect Jack would leave. I thought Gwen might die, I was hoping for a magic reset button even though I knew it wouldn't happen, but I didn't think he was going to take off. I think it was right, though. He'd lost so many people - Stephen, Ianto, Owen, Tosh, Suzie (although he didn't mention Gray, which I thought was odd) - and his "Why should I?" was just heartbreaking. The fact is that yes, while there is Gwen, she doesn't need him. She has Rhys and her baby (which I bet she names Jack if it's a boy). Torchwood has been destroyed, and I can see why he felt there was nothing left worth staying for. I imagine that there might be some people who really didn't like him taking off, but he's been through hell the last couple of years. I mean, he was buried alive for two thousand years. He lost the man he loved - and I maintain that he loved Ianto - and his daughter now hates him, Gwen's got her own family. Captain Jack Harkness among the stars again seems right to me. And it gives him a chance to re-meet up with the Doctor without having to leave his team and everything. A part of me hopes that he'll meet up with the Eleventh Doctor as well at some point. After all, his first appearance was in a Moffatt episode.
But yes. I don't see how it's possible for a fourth series now. But it was a good ending. Some shows just sort of go on forever, getting worse and worse until you wish they finished, but this went out with a bang. It wasn't Torchwood as we'd expected it, but I think the change was good. I missed the Hub and Myfanwy, and the normal everyday alien stuff that makes Torchwood Torchwood, but I liked it all the same. The way Ianto died was wrong, though, it should have been more heroic after everything he's been through, that's the only thing that really, really gets me. Apart from the fact that I want him back. He died for drugs. That's just...pathetic, really.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go and cry my eyes out somewhere.
So, from the beginning. Gwen's film, although I saw it in one of the preview clips, was absolutely chilling. As soon as Frobisher got that box, I thought it was some kind of suicide drug thing. I didn't think it was a gun, but I was along the right lines. PC Andy was amazing, as usual, I really love him. Gwen and the children was just the best. I really felt all Jack's pain, you could see it behind his eyes and it really, really hurt. I started crying when the army people took the first children from the schools, and didn't stop crying throughout the whole of the rest of the episode. Pretty much everyone in that cabinet room was a complete bastard, and I kind of never saw the point of Dekker. Johnson proved to be good, and I ended up liking her. I can't believe Jack would sacrifice his own grandson when he holds family so dear, even to save the world - he was willing to give up the children for Ianto - but I think he was just too broken by that point to care. I loved Rhys too, he was fantastic. Yay for Bridget, in the end. I never liked her, but I'm glad she helped. It was really painful in places, and there were some times when I was like, need Ianto, but it was a really painful subject. I've probably missed out some things I really wanted to mention, but I really just want to talk about the last scene.
I didn't suspect Jack would leave. I thought Gwen might die, I was hoping for a magic reset button even though I knew it wouldn't happen, but I didn't think he was going to take off. I think it was right, though. He'd lost so many people - Stephen, Ianto, Owen, Tosh, Suzie (although he didn't mention Gray, which I thought was odd) - and his "Why should I?" was just heartbreaking. The fact is that yes, while there is Gwen, she doesn't need him. She has Rhys and her baby (which I bet she names Jack if it's a boy). Torchwood has been destroyed, and I can see why he felt there was nothing left worth staying for. I imagine that there might be some people who really didn't like him taking off, but he's been through hell the last couple of years. I mean, he was buried alive for two thousand years. He lost the man he loved - and I maintain that he loved Ianto - and his daughter now hates him, Gwen's got her own family. Captain Jack Harkness among the stars again seems right to me. And it gives him a chance to re-meet up with the Doctor without having to leave his team and everything. A part of me hopes that he'll meet up with the Eleventh Doctor as well at some point. After all, his first appearance was in a Moffatt episode.
But yes. I don't see how it's possible for a fourth series now. But it was a good ending. Some shows just sort of go on forever, getting worse and worse until you wish they finished, but this went out with a bang. It wasn't Torchwood as we'd expected it, but I think the change was good. I missed the Hub and Myfanwy, and the normal everyday alien stuff that makes Torchwood Torchwood, but I liked it all the same. The way Ianto died was wrong, though, it should have been more heroic after everything he's been through, that's the only thing that really, really gets me. Apart from the fact that I want him back. He died for drugs. That's just...pathetic, really.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go and cry my eyes out somewhere.