Hey, Jack negativity are fighting words :D

The problem with Torchwood was often writing. When you got a good writer, you got a good Jack: Small Worlds, Greeks Bearing Gifts, etc. But when you didn't... BUT the biggest problem was that there was no attempt at maintaining the larger arc in mind. And that is bad plotting, and it gets you back to the beginning.

And the thing was, they did seem to have a larger overarching arc... and it turned out to be... let's kill Ianto and crush Jack so we can make an American audition tape. One third The Quatermass Experiment, and one third 24, and one third sheer stupid.

Dreck.