Owen's line is from ep "Random Shoes" S1. Ep that was almost entirely a Gwen episode, as the others barely appear in it, and the less favourite TW episode EVER! I wonder why...
There is some press already stating things like 'Torchwood, starring Eve Myles'... so let's prepare to say bye bye to Capt. Jack soon.
It's no secret that RTD wanted to do a show called "Rose Tyler: Earth Defender" and that the BBC turned that down because not interested. So RTD came up with Torchwood and put Capt. Jack in it to sell the product. Now that Gwen Cooper is an established "wonderwoman" there's no need for other, more interesting, characters. If Torchwood will go on, it will probably be as a mini series format, with the awesome Gwen Cooper and a supporting cast of replaceable redshirts.
If you go back and rewatch all of S1 and S2, Jack was never the main lead. Gwen has always had more screentime than anyone else.
I always wondered why, with a character like Jack, they never took any chance to explore his original timeline as a time agent in the future or even better why they never went into his past. I mean, a man who lived throughout the whole of our most recent history. The only time they did that was in "Fragments" when they showed Jack in the Victorian period and his recruitment by Torchwood. Then it's been 1 flashback (Lahore 1909) and... nothing else!
Talking about wasted potential? Not only they never bothered with Ianto, they never bothered with Jack either.
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Date: 2009-08-14 03:10 pm (UTC)There is some press already stating things like 'Torchwood, starring Eve Myles'... so let's prepare to say bye bye to Capt. Jack soon.
It's no secret that RTD wanted to do a show called "Rose Tyler: Earth Defender" and that the BBC turned that down because not interested. So RTD came up with Torchwood and put Capt. Jack in it to sell the product. Now that Gwen Cooper is an established "wonderwoman" there's no need for other, more interesting, characters. If Torchwood will go on, it will probably be as a mini series format, with the awesome Gwen Cooper and a supporting cast of replaceable redshirts.
If you go back and rewatch all of S1 and S2, Jack was never the main lead. Gwen has always had more screentime than anyone else.
I always wondered why, with a character like Jack, they never took any chance to explore his original timeline as a time agent in the future or even better why they never went into his past. I mean, a man who lived throughout the whole of our most recent history. The only time they did that was in "Fragments" when they showed Jack in the Victorian period and his recruitment by Torchwood. Then it's been 1 flashback (Lahore 1909) and... nothing else!
Talking about wasted potential? Not only they never bothered with Ianto, they never bothered with Jack either.