Miracle Day - are we facing another CoE slap in the face?

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Spoilers behind the cut

For anyone who has seen the "preview to episode 10" that is available when you purchase Torchwood: Miracle Day through a season pass, you'll know that John Barrowman says that there will be a death in the final episode and that we will be shocked.

Frankly, I don't care if they kill off Rex, Esther, Oswald... and I think I'll cope if they kill off Rhys. I know I'll be shocked if Jack is killed off, although it's been said that Jack will be in the anniversary series of Doctor Who, so it's hopeful that he will be returned to his immortal state, and continue on his happy way to becoming a giant head in a jar.

I live in hope, slim though it might be, that the shock death will be Gwen. I say that unapologetically. RTD and Julie Gardner insisted right from the beginning of Torchwood that no character (barring Jack) was safe, and that Torchwood operatives died young. They've killed off Tosh, Owen and Ianto. To leave Gwen untouched would be hypocritical at the very least.

I really do hope the character dies, because if that happens then we can be sure that if Torchwood is resurrected for a new season, then it will be a completely fresh show with a complete set of new characters.

Yes, I know I am a bitch, but I hate Gwen. I thought maybe she had taken a turn for the better at the start of this season, but sadly she just degenerated into her usual, sanctimonious and irritating self.

Unfortunately, I worry that RTD has another slap in the face of CoE proportions planned for those of us who have been brave enough to stick with the show.

There is one episode left. Jack was shot at the end of episode 8 and appears to be slowly bleeding to death. We have been promised a death that will shock us. All I can say is that if that death is Jack's, then Torchwood is officially dead in the water, and there will never be another series. I may never even watch another episode of Doctor Who, unless Moffatt is prepared to go against RTD and bring Jack back.

I am sorry, but Eve Myles cannot carry a show like Torchwood on her own. Without Captain Jack, there is no Torchwood. End of story.

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At first I expected Jack to die-die-dead-dead-dead in MD. (Kinda hoped for it, actually, to put the poor guy out of his misery...and ours.) Now I don't think he will. Remember, he's got the Rectangle o' Reversability from the floor Angelo stole from the exploded Hub within the last 18 months or so.

Now, I'm expecting Jack's death to be a fake-out. He *will* really die (but not die-die-dead-dead-dead), and Gwen will be the one who pulls the trigger and kills him. (O! The anguish! O! The emotional pain! O! Let's ignore the fact that two (three?) eps ago you were happily sending him to his dead-dead-dead death and expecting him to tell you happy fairytales while you waited to turn him over to the "bad guys".)

So Jack will die, but will call on the Powers of His Rectangle o' Reversability (since he's mortal now (and I *still* want to know why healing slower = mortal), the RoR makes him immortal), so he'll gasp back to life. Maybe we'll even see him gasping back to life days later, after Abbadon sucked most of his life-force out of him and died in an abandoned space station warehouse, all alone, except for piles of Dalek dust and dead bodies. And the camera pulls back in a crane shot, and there's poor Jack, sitting all alone again, abandoned again by his teammates. And we end the show with Gwen on a commercial flight to the UK, from China closed it's borders Shanghai, in tears, because the mean Chinesies and Family peopleses won't let her sit in their warehouse for days, while ignoring her family's needs and letting everyone else do the clean-up work, and because now that the "team" is dead there's no way to make herself feel more special and more important, and because Jack won't be around any more to keep implying that everything she does is right and proper and logical,(we'll ignore that little "rip the skin from your skull comment" shall we? Gwen certainly is.) and to keep her supplied with Retcon for everyone else that Gwen's in a snit with.