Lets talk about Torchwood shall we?? yes, which is adult spin off of British hit sci-fi Doctor Who which is by the way is just become brilliant in season 5 & season how should i say 5 1/2 cause season 6 not over yet.. but back to Torchwood .. it used to be one of my very favorite sci-fi show , i say used to be because its no longer & i will say why its no longer my favorite show.. Season 1 of Torchwood nice compact season it had Captain Jack Harkness from Doctor who played by John Barrowman i liked him started watching for him but over all love the concept except if i ignore very annoying over the top another lead character apart from Captain Jack Gwen Cooper , its not that i hated her but as it was put she was heart & soul of Torchwood well to be heart & soul she was too much flawed & annoying if i see her as a normal human being with regular character flaws she is ok.. but my main attraction was some cool aliens & rest of the cast members a very snarky Doctor Owen Harper a very timid shy Tech Toshiko Sato & the best character who was not very much given screen time except one episode " cyberwoman" the tea boy of Torchwood Cardiff Ianto Jones so some plot holes & everything season 1 was pretty good season 2 was very good until two good characters with brilliant actors were killed of.. then came the season 3 5 episode back to back more of a mini series with lots of promise Children of the Earth , to say the least it was disappointing to the core it not only killed of another brilliant character Ianto Jones but if his death held some meaning it would have been acceptable it was just for drama as creators of the show & some writer put it as james Moron said they spend 3 days thinking what to do & decided to kill Ianto i would say lack of creative imagination nothing else.. now Torchwood moved to season 4 it used to be a British show made in Wales another thing i loved about it along with its aliens , its characters its hub its resident pet Pteranodon & its resident weevil, but Torchwood moved to Hollywood to be bigger & better & how it becomes bigger & better they introduce a character who is a pedophile & according to JB's interview it has " man sex" & nudity when i watch a sci-fi show why would i bother about those things i would watch something adventurous something relaxing to escape the stress of the daily life .. two men or women having sex its not going to give that.. anyway.. its not only because Ianto Toshko & Owen is not there anymore its Cardiff , hub, not there anymore ites my favorite Torchwood not there anymore cause the Torchwood i loved that didn't have a likable pedophile & i draw the line there.. so Miracle day its no go for me.. but as 3 radio plays coming up i would listen to them because of Ianto.. hope they have more Ianto less Gwen Cooper other wise it will be again a disappointment .. i hope some day BBC will look back & decide to bring back old Torchwood would love it with return of Ianto Jones as its sci-fi & in this everything is possible dead not really stay dead Torchwood itself is the example of it..
i loved torchwood despite the plotholes silly storylines because of the characters. i wanted to know more about jack/ianto/tosh/owen/suzie/andy/myfanwy because the actors brought them to life inspite of the fact that rusty seemed to write for gwen only, i mean we have seen gwen's flat so many times i feel like could find the bathroom in the dark while we have no idea where ianto lived. my problem with gwen is the other characters as little as we saw them out shined her. we saw owen/tosh/ianto/jack change and begin to grow but gwen never seemed to learn from her mistakes or listen to her more experenced co-workers. gwen for all the talk of her being 'the heart of torchwood' treated rhys and her team mates badly. her affair with owen which gwen then confesses to rhys after she drugs to rhys forget what she told while crying that she didn't what to have any secrets from rhys and begging for forgiveness. nuff said on that. i always thought that ianto/tosh were the ones that kept jack honest.
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i so agree with you Gwen is a character which simply annoying & she is the only one who is entitled to get happy ending in Torchwood others are just gotta have sad pathetic life about that yes we never saw enough about Ianto, Tosh, Owen's life but Gwen is everywhere
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