[ SECRET POST #5128 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5128 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I liked everyone initially (except Owen), but the more I watched it, the more I started to dislike everybody with the exception of Tosh. Then they killed her off and I bailed. Just couldn't watch it anymore, which was probably for the best because I read the summaries for Children of Earth and Miracle Day and neither sounded like my cup of tea.

[(Anonymous)]

I've never been able to rewatch because I posted about how sad I was when Tosh died, and got a whole lot of Jack/Ianto fans showing up to tell me how that was just Torchwood and I was stupid for not expecting it. And then Children of Earth came out and they killed off Ianto and there was MASSIVE wank about it (including attacks on the showrunner and calling him (a gay man) homophobic) and there's still a memorial in Cardiff. But it was me who was stupid for being sad my fave was killed off!

[(Anonymous)]

That's horrible! I'm so sorry you had to deal with that, anon. Maybe it's just me, but Tosh's death came out of nowhere and I ugly cried so hard after that episode because I wasn't expecting her to die. Tosh was the best.

Holy hell, there's still a memorial for Ianto? Wow. Seems weird to call the showrunner homophobic for killing off Ianto when apparently it's to be expected that one's faves are gonna get killed off because they're in Torchwood.

[(Anonymous)]

John Barrowman just went to the shrine! https://twitter.com/JohnBarrowman/status/1350107921179418624

That's funny. I hadn't thought about Torchwood in ages and that crossed my timeline this morning.

[(Anonymous)]

I wasn't a huge fan of Ianto, but it's kinda nice that the shrine his fans made for him is still there. I do love that John Barrowman went to visit it.

[(Anonymous)]

OP here. The only good seasons were the first two. The others took themselves too seriously. It will always be a team soap to me.

I liked that so many relationship possibilities and sexual orientation experiences were canon, which is very unusual.

We're gonna make everybody gay or bi anyway, but it's cool when canon does it.

[tree_and_leaf]

I thought Children of Earth was brilliantly well done, but it's a massive switch tonally so it's quite likely that you wouldn't enjoy it. (On the one hand, I'd argue that it's what Torchwood should have been like all along given the pitch, but on the other hand it does also radically change the show in a way that doesn't really work).

Agree about the characters, they all became awful bar Tosh, and the writers didn't even seem to notice that's what they were doing.

[(Anonymous)]

Since it finished airing I've held the opinion that Children of Earth is fantastic television and absolutely horrid Torchwood. I don't know if RTD thought he couldn't get it made without producing it as part of the Whoverse, or some BBC honcho insisted, but it just should not have been those characters forced through that tone shift. Even at its saddest, Torchwood was never bleak.

[tree_and_leaf]

Yeah, I think I agree with that.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, which is even more ironic when you consider that most of Torchwood has been quite poorly done, as a tv series. Maybe that was, paradoxically, the secret sauce?