Great meta. Whenever someone says CoE was the best television ever I have to scratch my head and think, have they ever SEEN this show? or do they know how government
ACTUALLY works? and that's just the tip of the plothole iceberg.

I think what happened was that RTD wouldn't let anything, not logic, not even his own canon get in the way of his 'drama'. From what I've heard RTD had the idea for CoE just sitting around so he took it and used Torchwood to tell the story (it would have worked better if they had used other characters) and he wrote the characters to fit the story instead of writing the story to fit the characters.