TORCHWOOD CHILDREN OF EARTH (Spoiler Alert!!)
So...tonight the last episode is playing on BBC America. I've tried really hard not to ruin this for anyone else, because I do think, overall, it was a great season...BUT, I have several things that I want to say about it now that it's coming to a close and (hopefully) everyone else has had the chance to see it. Again, don't read this if you don't want to know what happens. Seriously.
Russell Davies...I think you're a brilliant man sometimes and I thank you for bringing us a revitalized Dr. Who and Torchwood. Unfortunately, I will probably always have issues with you because you finally presented a Torchwood that had detailed, much-more believable characters that you then just wiped away. Yes, I'm upset Ianto died. But, that's part of the story and I can forgive that. What really upset me was that I finally got to see Torchwood as it was meant to be and all the potential that it had. In the first three episodes you provided more character personality and really fleshed out the entire show...so much so, that I was so excited to see what would happen with the next season once they'd defeated the 456. You created a platform to really launch the core foursome into a whole new level of development. Torchwood was more solid (in a sense) and truly more interesting than it had ever been.
Then, in the last two episodes, you systematically killed all that. Ianto dead (and not for any really heroic reason, mostly just to further unhinge Jack). Gwen pregnant (and very, very pregnant at that). Jack...fleeing the goddamn planet like a coward and making all the deaths almost pointless. He was the reason I started watching Torchwood...and now he's just kind of lame for me. And that really sucks ass.
I just read a couple of interviews with you and you keep stating that you think Torchwood has a really viable self-life of several more seasons. Really? How? Sure, you can create a new Torchwood, but it'll just basically be a new show. Is Gwen (who was 6 or 7 months pregnant when we last saw her) going to leave the child home with Rhys while she fights aliens? Jack lost his heroic creditability with me...I understand a character being emotionally crippled by traumatic loss, but to just leave and abandon everything? What, is he going to suddenly have an epiphany on some alien bar and decide to return to Earth to restart his clubhouse? That's fucking lame.
I suppose once Gwen has the child, she could leave it at home (I guess with poor Rhys) and gather Lois Habiba and that Johnson lady (the hardcore mercenary chica who softened at the end), but it won't have any of the Torchwood feel left to it. That era is now done. And, I know I'm being all fan-boy about this, but it does really make me sad. I was SO excited about the potential. Now I don't know if I really want to watch it anymore. It's hard to get excited about a show that murdered off or altered all the things that you loved about it.
Russell Davies...I think you're a brilliant man sometimes and I thank you for bringing us a revitalized Dr. Who and Torchwood. Unfortunately, I will probably always have issues with you because you finally presented a Torchwood that had detailed, much-more believable characters that you then just wiped away. Yes, I'm upset Ianto died. But, that's part of the story and I can forgive that. What really upset me was that I finally got to see Torchwood as it was meant to be and all the potential that it had. In the first three episodes you provided more character personality and really fleshed out the entire show...so much so, that I was so excited to see what would happen with the next season once they'd defeated the 456. You created a platform to really launch the core foursome into a whole new level of development. Torchwood was more solid (in a sense) and truly more interesting than it had ever been.
Then, in the last two episodes, you systematically killed all that. Ianto dead (and not for any really heroic reason, mostly just to further unhinge Jack). Gwen pregnant (and very, very pregnant at that). Jack...fleeing the goddamn planet like a coward and making all the deaths almost pointless. He was the reason I started watching Torchwood...and now he's just kind of lame for me. And that really sucks ass.
I just read a couple of interviews with you and you keep stating that you think Torchwood has a really viable self-life of several more seasons. Really? How? Sure, you can create a new Torchwood, but it'll just basically be a new show. Is Gwen (who was 6 or 7 months pregnant when we last saw her) going to leave the child home with Rhys while she fights aliens? Jack lost his heroic creditability with me...I understand a character being emotionally crippled by traumatic loss, but to just leave and abandon everything? What, is he going to suddenly have an epiphany on some alien bar and decide to return to Earth to restart his clubhouse? That's fucking lame.
I suppose once Gwen has the child, she could leave it at home (I guess with poor Rhys) and gather Lois Habiba and that Johnson lady (the hardcore mercenary chica who softened at the end), but it won't have any of the Torchwood feel left to it. That era is now done. And, I know I'm being all fan-boy about this, but it does really make me sad. I was SO excited about the potential. Now I don't know if I really want to watch it anymore. It's hard to get excited about a show that murdered off or altered all the things that you loved about it.