The third series/season of Torchwood has ended, and so we have time to catch our breath and try to take in what happened.
For those still stunned by the loss of Ianto, I'd like to mention that the following characters were NOT killed off in the last episode: Gwen, Rhys, Gwen's unborn child, Jack's daughter, and that Lois chick that helped the team out.
In this last episode we learn why the 456 are so eager for Earth children: they connect themselves up to the children, and the children secrete something which acts on the 456 as a drug.
My first thought on learning that was this: why don't the 456 just synthesize the chemicals secreted by the children? But I suppose there might be some explanation. Perhaps the synthesized version is more dangerous to the 456--- more prone to cause overdose.
One of the themes of this series is sacrifice. Those evil government dudes are actually faced with an impossible choice: sacrifice a relatively small number of children, or face the death of the whole world. It's a horrible choice, but would anyone really condemn the whole human race--- including 90% of the children--- rather than let some children become slaves of a sort to aliens?
In the end, Captain Jack is able to save the day, and the 456 are banished without letting them take the children. But Jack has to make a more personal sacrifice to make this happen.
The episode concludes with some action 6 months after the primary events of the series. Gwen and Rhys come to a hillside to meet Jack who has been travelling through space. They come to say goodbye: Jack at this point has no intention of re-starting Torchwood.
So that's the end of Torchwood. It is possible to re-start the series, and if this weeklong Torchwood event was popular enough, it may happen. I hope they do revive Torchwood--- in spite of the unfortunate death of Ianto which was not necessary to the story and was something of a 'look at me' kind of event especially on top of the deaths at the end of the previous season.
If Torchwood is revived, I think the following must be done: new Torchwood team members must be recruited as they ought to have been after the deaths of Owen and Tosh. The next season ought to be a normal one--- no five-episode season, no team member deaths to draw attention to the season finale. I believe they really ought to try to give us two good seasons before they make with the tricksy stuff again. After all, without the first two seasons to let us get to know Owen, Tosh and Ianto, they would not have got millions of people to cry over their deaths.
TOMORROW: BBC America is premiering a new series, 'Being Human', about a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost, probably walking in to a bar. Or, more likely, they are trying to live as humans do, and coping with the nasty human prejudice against entities who want to drain them of blood or tear their throats out. It sounds a bit like the Southern Vampire series only set in the UK.
NEW DOCTOR WHO EPISODE: will be aired on BBC America this Sunday.
Torchwood DVDs and books
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