Torchwood: Children of Earth, Day Five (SPOILERS)

[talkingtothesky]

You know how I said before all this started that I was worried that nothing was ever going to be the same again?

Well, it's not, is it?

Earlier in the week someone posted on torch_wood that writer James Moran twittered that 'this is not the end if we can help it'. But a Series 4 after that? How, and where? Where do you start from? Do you get Jack to come back, dooming him to go through all of that all over again? Do you have Gwen pick a new team and start again, without Jack?

I don't want Torchwood to be over for good, of course I don't. All this week the thought that this could be the end has frightened me more than anything else.

But with that ending? Wow. Leave it there, guys, leave it there.

The message this series have left us with? We are not ready. There is no line of defence. Put people on the front line and they inevitably crumble under the strain.

And so we're faced with this. In the world of Torchwood, alien life exists and it will crush us underfoot. And in real life? We are utterly alone in the universe, a tiny speck of life shining out in the dark. And we will die, eventually. When the Sun expands and engulfs us we will cease to exist. The only hope is that maybe, an indeterminable distance into the future, with the right random combination of collapsing dust clouds, of elements, of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen (or maybe not, maybe this world will exist of things we cannot and will not ever discover or name), just by chance something will spark again.

I will see Doctor Who in an entirely new light now.

Thanks for giving me something to think about, Torchwood. It's been fun. And thank you for being brave enough to actually go there, and not try and tack on a false happy ending to make us feel better. Well done, show. 
 
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