Sorry I’ve been talking quite a bit about Torchwood: Children of Earth these days. Just finished the last episode. IT’S FREAKING SAD!!!!!!! Not sad like Grey’s Anatomy was. This one’s typical me. Super depressing! Poor Jack!!!! He saved the world but lost everything. Literally everything. Tosh and Owen in the last season. Susie in episode 1. Then the hub got blown up. Ianto dying. That was already more than enough last straws. Then he had to sacrifice his own grandson to save the world and lost his daughter in the process. Saaaaaaaad!!! He’s a broken man now. The weight of the world was too much for him. Then Jack got beamed up into the stars to go travelling. Wonder if there’ll be some Doctor Who episodes with him. There’s definitely the possibility. Then he’ll realise that despite all the travelling, his heart is on earth, then come back. *wishful thinking*

Not going to go into Gwen. She’s got her happy ending with Rhys and the baby. I didn’t really like her since the beginning. She was tolerable, but not one of my top characters. I was pretty glad PC Andy made an appearance in this series though. Even though it was an extremely small part and probably there only to please the fans.

I was kind of hoping that after they saved the day and the aliens were destroyed, things would go back to normal, aka, Ianto would come back to life. But no. This is no Doctor Who. Torchwood is grounded and it’s always a sad ending because life’s like that. Which is cool. Just sad.

Ok. Not sure what much else to say. Was reading a blog about it and there was mentioned that some people are pissed about Jack running away at the end. For me, I’m not pissed exactly. It’s normal to want to run, to get away from troubles and all that. It’s just that it seemed so final. I wouldn’t say I was disappointed in the ending. But I’d say that if there was a season 4, I would be disappointed, even though I would miss Jack and the Torchwood team. I’d watch, but it’d be wrong. It’s just… The ending here seemed so final. Like it was the close of the entire series altogether. You know? Like Jack’s never going to come back. He completely excluded that possibility. It wouldn’t be narratively right for there to be another season and I suppose that’s part of the disappointment I have now.

In general though, these five episodes are bloody brilliant. Well written (in my non-expert opinion) and intense. It explores quite a bit of themes, especially politically. Relationships. Sacrifice. I was watching the Torchwood panel at Comics Connection on Youtube and that word came up a lot. The Torchwood series has a lot to do with sacrifice and loss and having to make choices. It’s brought out so poignantly here. (Go watch the Comics Connection panel interview btw. Super funny.)

Alright. Guess that’s it. Going to go off and mull over the events of the past few episodes and try to come to terms with it. Maybe watch it again. It was seriously action packed. I think if I were to sit and watch the whole 5 episodes back to back, I might explode. It’s that intense. It’s one of those things that, if it were a movie, I’d come out feeling mentally exhausted. And the ending sucked. They should have just ended it without the ’six months later’ bit. Just stopped after Jack’s daughter rejected him and he walked away into that bright light of the swinging doors. That would have been a good ending. I guess it was one of those things that tried to force an ending and it didn’t quite work out well. Oh well. Wonderful bit of television until the last few minutes. 3.5 out of 5 stars.

ETA:

I found THIS blog review/article from guardian.co.uk. Pretty good. Read it.