Yep. I pretty much realized that Gwen's sudden acquisition of new skill sets and leadership attitude would never bode well for the rest of the characters or the cast in Children of Earth. In fact, it turns out that such a development in a TV series is a well established trope or cliche.
If Torchwood tries to come back with Gwen in the lead role, or with her and Jack trying to re-establish Torchwood then I'm going to really worry for the safety of Rhys and the baby. Really, I'm not entirely sure that the baby or Rhys will survive until the beginning of the fourth series, considering that Ianto was killed mid-series. As Russell T. Davies and the Torchwood writers have let us know, the deaths of fictional characters are necessary for advancing their narrative and we should just get over it. So why not kill the runt or the hubbie if it makes Gwen a super soldier (and conveniently frees her to fall into Jack's suddenly welcoming arms)? Either way, I feel that the Torchwood crew have just made stupid choices for the long-term sustainability of the story line, and they are going to have to do massive things to the story and the characters to avoid falling flat on their faces. I'll just wait for the synopses on Wikipedia and the particularly sad/hilarious clips of the disaster on Youtube.
In other series that I have watched that have done major changes to the story, like Battlestar Galactica at the end of the second and third series, I quickly realized once the next set of episodes started that the writers had a plan and dealt with the ramifications of their decisions. Even though it was science fiction, it showed that cause and effect were still intertwined. Nothing that I have ever seen from Russell T. Davies really shows me that he has that sort of skill to tie up lose ends effectively and show that the characters are profoundly affected by the events of the story. He has a tendency (is it really a tendency if it occurs 100% of the time?) of having the characters go through something profound or horrifying, deal with it in a matter of seconds, and then pick up the pieces as if nothing had ever occured.
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If Torchwood tries to come back with Gwen in the lead role, or with her and Jack trying to re-establish Torchwood then I'm going to really worry for the safety of Rhys and the baby. Really, I'm not entirely sure that the baby or Rhys will survive until the beginning of the fourth series, considering that Ianto was killed mid-series. As Russell T. Davies and the Torchwood writers have let us know, the deaths of fictional characters are necessary for advancing their narrative and we should just get over it. So why not kill the runt or the hubbie if it makes Gwen a super soldier (and conveniently frees her to fall into Jack's suddenly welcoming arms)? Either way, I feel that the Torchwood crew have just made stupid choices for the long-term sustainability of the story line, and they are going to have to do massive things to the story and the characters to avoid falling flat on their faces. I'll just wait for the synopses on Wikipedia and the particularly sad/hilarious clips of the disaster on Youtube.
In other series that I have watched that have done major changes to the story, like Battlestar Galactica at the end of the second and third series, I quickly realized once the next set of episodes started that the writers had a plan and dealt with the ramifications of their decisions. Even though it was science fiction, it showed that cause and effect were still intertwined. Nothing that I have ever seen from Russell T. Davies really shows me that he has that sort of skill to tie up lose ends effectively and show that the characters are profoundly affected by the events of the story. He has a tendency (is it really a tendency if it occurs 100% of the time?) of having the characters go through something profound or horrifying, deal with it in a matter of seconds, and then pick up the pieces as if nothing had ever occured.