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

[theorclair]

I've been working on a fic for more than two years (writer's block some) where Martha explicitly states who knows how to reach the Doctor and that he'd come for anything serious. Watch "The Stolen Earth" again and you'll see how they should have reacted - they know this is way over their heads and ask for help.

People always seem to assume I hate CoE because I'm a butthurt shipper (I am a shipper, but not a butthurt one...) and somehow it never occurs to them I don't like it because it doesn't make sense in the Who universe.

[badly_knitted]

I think a lot of Who-Verse fans are in the same position. We have perfectly valid reasons for not liking CoE - not only doesn't it make sense within the Who-Verse, it doesn't make sense in any respect a lot of the time - but we just get accused of not liking it solely because they killed Ianto.

I'll admit I think killing Ianto was unnecessary to the plot (such as it was), but by the end of Day One I was pulling apart all the plot holes and rolling my eyes about how little sense it was making, and it just went downhill from there. There were a few brief moments when it seemed like Torchwood, but most of it was a nonsensical mess. There were so many things that bugged me, I couldn't suspend my disbelief for more that a few minutes at a time before the plot fell down another gaping hole.