observation about torchwood

[qthewetsprocket]

i've been reading through my f'list's reactions to 'children of earth', as well as pondering over my own, and i noticed something odd:

the less emotional investment you had in torchwood and its characters, the more you seemed to enjoy 'children of earth'.

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[qthewetsprocket]

It's hard to believe that Doctor Who would ever be so bleak - not with families watching at Christmas!

i really hope not. :( actually, i'm not worried so much about the finale's potential bleakness - because, hello, canon main character death - as much as the pointlessness and nihilism we got in 'children of earth': ie, doing death/woe/destruction on an epic scale just for the sake of itself, rather than for the sake of the plot / continuing characters and storylines. the thing rtd has said about leaving moffat a 'clean slate' has me very, very worried...because he certainly left torchwood with a clean slate, and not at all in a good way imo.

my main hope at this point is the fact that torchwood was rtd's creation, something he can at least claim ownership rights over - and thus feel entitled to demolish it if that's the story he wanted to tell. doctor who isn't his toy to pull apart if he likes, at all (at least not so much, in the sense that it existed before he started writing it); so i'm hoping some small sense of propriety wins over and he doesn't knock the whole tower of blocks down just for the sake of making a big dramatic exit.

[kateorman]

I'm kind of intrigued now - what is it you're worried he might do!

[qthewetsprocket]

kill the tardis. kill donna. kill wilf. joss the master. make john simm's character the master's kid with rose. make the regeneration impossible without a contribution from rose, so that EVERY SINGLE INCARNATION of the doctor FOREVER AFTERWARDS will have some of rose tyler's dna in him. have the doctor tell sarah jane she wasn't as good as rose. not give us doctor-donna back, but make donna even more shallow than she was before she met the doctor, thereby proving that HAW HAW earth womens' branes can't handle a time lord's mind (even though handy seemed to do just fine with it).

the only thing i think he could do that would actually be cool would be constructive: i'm really hoping that timothy dalton's character isn't in a flashback; i hope he's an actual time lord, and that they're not dead, and that they only brainwashed the doctor into thinking they were all dead as a punishment, ie the ultimate form of exile. but yeah, given torchwood's finale, i'm fearing the mass destruction option instead.