Torchwood 1 loathed the UN - I suspect they'd have avoided any contact they could. Although there is a theory that the reason it took the Brigadier so long to get his knighthood was that Torchwood were annoyed at how he wasn't giving them any information on this mysterious scientific advisor of his. UNIT was always much more open about their existence than Torchwood, so I suspect that as soon as UNIT formed, Torchwood decided to sit back and let them deal with the global threats while modifying their own duty from "defend Britain" to "murder aliens and take their stuff, reconquer the Empire" (assuming it hadn't already degenerated)*.
Is Torchwood an anomaly in time that has to be error corrected back out again? Because if 10 and Rose hadn't been acting like a pair of five year olds it would have never been created in the first place?UNIT wouldn't exist if the Doctor hadn't defeated the Great Intelligence in the Underground, though (and he couldn't have defeated the Intelligence in the way he did if it hadn't known him from Tibet, and
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My favourite way to reconcile COE and MD was the massive explosions in Cardiff knocked everything sideways a la Inferno, so we were viewing events in a parallel reality.
I did not know about UNIT's origin story, since I've not seen that story. Good to know.
Except that Children of Earth is really difficult to reconcile with Doctor Who and Miracle Day all but impossible Rubbish. They were fixed points so he stayed away, as he failed to do at Bowie Station. (Well, I say "stayed away" - actually during Children of Earth the Doctor kept Luke Smith and his friends safe in the TARDIS while ignoring Martha's phone calls.)
I'm not talking about the Doctor's absence - I'm talking about the fact that Torchwood pushed traumatic bleakness as far as it could go, and while I'm all for Doctor Who actually acknowledging the monstrous aspects of humanity, the effects those seasons had on humanity can't ever show up in Doctor Who without severely breaking it (flippant comments about the Zygon gambit with the Loch Ness Monster just won't cut it, IMO).
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Is Torchwood an anomaly in time that has to be error corrected back out again? Because if 10 and Rose hadn't been acting like a pair of five year olds it would have never been created in the first place?UNIT wouldn't exist if the Doctor hadn't defeated the Great Intelligence in the Underground, though (and he couldn't have defeated the Intelligence in the way he did if it hadn't known him from Tibet, and ( ... )
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I did not know about UNIT's origin story, since I've not seen that story. Good to know.
Jack is the exception to most rules.
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Except that Children of Earth is really difficult to reconcile with Doctor Who and Miracle Day all but impossible
Rubbish. They were fixed points so he stayed away, as he failed to do at Bowie Station. (Well, I say "stayed away" - actually during Children of Earth the Doctor kept Luke Smith and his friends safe in the TARDIS while ignoring Martha's phone calls.)
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