Emma, you're such a bright woman. No wonder you had problems with Children of Earth.

I, too, spent it thinking of the Doctor, Martha, Sarah Jane and K9, the Shadow Proclamation, Jack's phenomenal charm, and Ianto's preparedness. There were plot holes you could drop the Hub through. The actual writing wasn't that bad, but the plotting behind it was terrible.

The political overtones were so heavy as to be stifling. They swamped the characters, who ended up flailing around in them with nothing to grip onto. It felt like a party political broadcast by the Russell T Davies Party. There was no redemption, not for anyone.

RTD has said that he wants to carry on basing Torchwood around Jack. Now, any Jack with half a spine is going to be furious about the fact that the Doctor, Martha, Sarah Jane, and pretty much anyone else you could mention, just let him fight this on his own. He'll also, perfectly naturally, resent Gwen for having her perfect marriage and pretty little baby while everything he loved was systematically destroyed. They'll never be able to work together, not with that as a background. Jack would have to go away for a hundred years, maybe more, before he could stomach coming back to Cardiff.

I was reading And Death Shall Have No Dominion the other day, and thinking of Jack. There's a long fic in my head about what he does and where he goes post CoE. I'm wondering if I have the commitment to write it :)