badly_knitted: (Tired Ianto)
badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote in [personal profile] blucougar 2011-09-04 12:36 pm (UTC)

RTD and co have already ripped Jack to shreds so much, short of killing him off there's really nothing else they can do to him. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if he was killed and I'm in two minds about how I'd feel. On the one hand, Jack's suffered so much it would put him out of his misery and he could go join Ianto in the afterlife. On the other, I want Jack to be around to appear on Doctor Who. Of course, in my head neither CoE nor Miracle Day exists in the same universe as Doctor Who, to me it's all AU and in the Doctor Who universe's version of Torchwood none of this happened, because if it had, the Doctor would have showed to fix it.

I can't help feeling that RTD would have killed Jack off long ago if he hadn't been immortal, so that Torchwood could be completely The Gwen Show, so Miracle Day may well have been created just in order for him to have an excuse to do just that. Make everyone else immortal, make Jack mortal, then kill him to fix the world. It's cynical of me, I know, but it wouldn't surprise me.

If Gwen dies, I will be very surprised. Sadly, I think it's highly unlikely (although I suspect a lot of people would be relieved, myself included). RTD practically worships Gwen, he thinks she's perfect, so I can't see him killing the wonderful character he created (shame sarcasm doesn't come across well in writing). I'd be surprised if Rhys bit the dust, because Gwen never loses anything important to her, but then I'm not convinced Rhys really means that much to her anyway...

Having said all this, I haven't watched Miracle Day at all, nor do I ever plan to. I suspect the reviews are more entertaining than the actual show and I don't have to waste 10 hours of my life to know what's happening. 5 minutes a week tells me all I need to know.

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