No, Torchwood isn't Doctor Who, but it is supposed to exist in the same universe. By making the plot global, it begs the question of why no one even tried to contact the Doctor, who has shown up to rescue earth from far lesser threats. If the threat had been more localised, say only Britain in danger, then yes, the Doctor might have thought Torchwood could handle it and stayed away, but he doesn't have a high enough opinion of the apes who inhabit the planet to leave such a devastating threat to be dealt with by earth itself.
Then there's the fact that UNIT apparently made no attempt to tackle the threat. Isn't that what they exist to do? Protect earth from alien threats? Even if the Doctor didn't show up, UNIT should have been fighting back, but instead...
And I'm not saying that I myself wanted to see the Doctor come riding in to save the day, just that there's not even any real explanation of why he didn't or couldn't even though fans were bound to ask "Why?"
I've long thought that the whole idea would have worked better if the global threat had been season 2's Sleepers. They could have crippled earth's communications so an S.O.S. couldn't be sent to the Doctor and the destruction of the Hub would have actually made sense. Maybe something in Beth's body activated and blew the Hub sky high. Anything would have made more sense than planting a bomb in Jack and hoping he'd get back to his secret base before exploding.
I also would have enjoyed it more if the ordinary people and the immortal hadn't been made to look so downright incompetent most of the time. It beggars belief that Torchwood didn't have any backup Hub in case their base was compromised, no off-site stash of weapons and equipment for emergencies, no pre-established false identities they could use, etc. etc. It looked like amateur hour.
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Then there's the fact that UNIT apparently made no attempt to tackle the threat. Isn't that what they exist to do? Protect earth from alien threats? Even if the Doctor didn't show up, UNIT should have been fighting back, but instead...
And I'm not saying that I myself wanted to see the Doctor come riding in to save the day, just that there's not even any real explanation of why he didn't or couldn't even though fans were bound to ask "Why?"
I've long thought that the whole idea would have worked better if the global threat had been season 2's Sleepers. They could have crippled earth's communications so an S.O.S. couldn't be sent to the Doctor and the destruction of the Hub would have actually made sense. Maybe something in Beth's body activated and blew the Hub sky high. Anything would have made more sense than planting a bomb in Jack and hoping he'd get back to his secret base before exploding.
I also would have enjoyed it more if the ordinary people and the immortal hadn't been made to look so downright incompetent most of the time. It beggars belief that Torchwood didn't have any backup Hub in case their base was compromised, no off-site stash of weapons and equipment for emergencies, no pre-established false identities they could use, etc. etc. It looked like amateur hour.