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

[blucougar]

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.

Comments

[milady_dragon]

I've thought from the very beginning that MD was the perfect way of getting rid of Jack: turn him mortal and then kill him before whatever happened reverses itself. We've all known that RTD didn't want Jack in Torchwood at all, and was practically forced to have him in it in order to make his show about the female copper who chases aliens. So yes, I think Jack is well and truly dead.

There was a rumor saying that Gwen would have to make a terrible decision, and I think that decision is to kill Jack for the reversal of the miracle. I've been thinking since Jane Espenson made the comment that burning someone to ash would really kill them, that this is how Jack was going to go...and that Gwen would push the button. And now we have the gigantic alien vagina showing up, I've changed my mind, and that Jack is sacrificed to it.

However...

I also think that there will be a bit of ambiguity about how he dies. Starz has said they may do another series if a good idea comes up involving Jack...not Gwen, Jack. So yeah, I think he dies but they leave an out.