I am totally committed to reading too much into things

[stuffphile]

Surprise, more about Torchwood. It's follow-up to my last post concerning Captain Jack. I do talk about Ianto this time, plus it has spoilers for Children of Earth (like anything doesn't.)

Comments

[lawsontl]

I think the reality of most any type of heroism is that there's almost always collateral damage. Otherwise we wouldn't have the term to make something unpleasant sound nicer.

There's never an easy win or an easy loss. And as cold as it sounds, even I had to nod when Jack said "12 kids versus the world" - when you're in his position, you start getting that way. You assume the commanders have weighed all the options, and this is the choice. And if those are your only options...

But that being said, Jack, Torchwood, it's been flawed all along, I do agree. What was good about it was how they just kept trying to do better and refusing to give up.

You probably ARE reading too much into it, but that's not an insult to you. I think that's a statement on the writers. Considering the plot holes and continuity issues, I don't think anyone's ever given it THAT much thought. If they put as much effort into continuity and character development as they did into designing Lisa's cyberkini, we might not be having this chat. *ahem*

[stuffphile]

Hey! Thanks for the response. Thinking of it, I'm actually glad they didn't put this much thought into it, if what've I've noticed here was not the intention with CoE.

And I'm with you. I thought giving up the twelve children was the good solution, and I still like Jack. He tried to do better, as you say.

Well, it's the beauty of fanfiction that it refines even flawed source material enough to make wonderful stories from it. We still have that. Sniff.