"In The Christmas Invasion, the Doctor tells the Sycorax to go home and tell all other alien races to keep their paws off Earth: tell whoever you meet that the Earth is defended. Now, that doesn’t stop the aliens from trying, but… there is always a defense. Until now."

Ok, TW London shot that thing down under Harriet Jones' order; they didn't get a chance to spread the warning. I think Harriet made the right judgment call, at the time. No one would expect TW London to fall within a year. Similarly, no one would expect Harriet's timeline (she was supposed to be elected for 3 terms) got changed by the Docotor b/c she disagreed with him (that's really what it was boiled down to; she hurt his ego). Consequently, Master got a hole in Time where he sneaked in and became the PM. (RTD made a similar comment on that matter.) Either way, Ten's an arse, but we know that.

That to be said. I agree with you, the plot sucked. Almost every player suddenly lost a pair or just conveniently forgotten. (Except Doctor of course. Like Harriet Jones said, it's impossible for him to show up every time. And frankly, I don't want him to; Superman type bothers me.) Everyone's OOC, Unit, Ianto, Harkness and Gwen (in a good way).

What really bugs me was that Jack claimed that TW is ready. Any one person can tell him that they were no where near ready, which was proven in "Turn Left". Jack Harkness took wrong lesson from TW London. It's not don't temper with unfamiliar techs or don't have a huge organization; it should be "making sure you have big enough guns such that when shit blows up at your face, you can actually clean the mess." The TW in Rose's world learned the right lesson. Did you guys see those standard issue BMFG and the teleport thingy?

Therefore, at this point, I'm not sure what's worse, TW's overall stupidity or the enormously bad plot line of COE. Frankly, the only good and made sense characters were those got killed off. (Ianto only made sense until COE, a.k.a. when RTD got his paw on him.) I like Jack, but often then not he just came off as all barking no biting. My most memorable moment of him was when he teleported Mary to the Sun; JB delivered his character brilliantly, cruel decisive and swift. That's the Jack everyone include himself claimed him to be, but often than not he appeared to be soft, careless and brainless.