Just need to share this...

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I find it personally amazing that MONTHS after Torchwood's third season has aired ...it's still haunting me. It has nothing to do with being an abnormal fan or the like. It was just a brilliant piece of entertainment/tv history that *got* to me and won't let me go. I mean this as sincerely as I can, it was an amazing piece of television.  Now. That being said, there is a major part of me that is conflicted with it and kinda hates it. No, it's not because someone in the cast dies, it's because after it was all over (hindsight's forever perfect) I was left feeling betrayed and wanting my proverbial money back. I felt cheated! This was NOT Torchwood. CoE may have paraded Gwen, Ianto, and Jack around in a shiny new format, but in the end... CoE was it's own universe where TW just happened to poke their noses in the wrong places.

It's difficult to explain in short, but at least let me try. When you look at the entire work, the main characters aren't who you are expecting. Generally a 'Protagonist' is defined as the character leading the action. I want to argue that Frobisher was the main protagonist for this work. Not Jack. Not Gwen. Not Ianto. Frobisher. It's ultimately his action that causes the whole mess in the plot, and most of that messy plot involved him dealing with the 456. He even had supporting characters to prop up his protagonist ways! The TW crew were just an end to a means for this plot. Frobisher's story ends with his suicide. The End. The hero's story is a tragedy. OH, but wait! We're calling this show "Torchwood" which means we need these random three people that STAR in that show to be useful. Jack has to press ENTER a lot to save the world's children. I may be ranting a bit here, but I hope my point is coming across: This was not a Torchwood story. The beloved characters were squeezed into an already crowded story. Just look at the premise! Torchwood is on the run from it's own government = we need an excuse to make action while the politicians who are the real main characters fuck everything up. TW is kept out of the MAIN ACTION OF THE ENTIRE STORY FOR THREE OF *FIVE* EPISODES. I mean, seriously!

Which brings me to my final point I'll shove into this already overlong post: OOC. I really do love CoE. It's gorgeous. But, it's like the creators dabbled with their own show's fanfiction. They created an AU for Torchwood. The original characters broke their own characterization! Alice, proving she's an intelligent fighter doesn't book it as soon as there's a sign of release? She basically hands her kid to them. Why? Because the *Assassin* Johnson has a totally random conflict of conscious! I can't believe that a character that was ready to shoot a mother in front of their own child because she was *ordered* to would suddenly worry if her government was being moral or not. I can't swallow it. What her character should have done when walking into Hub 2 was tell Gwen to stuff the preaching and/or just shoot her. In fact, why DIDN'T she just shoot Gwen? The very first episode clearly set up that she was ordered to kill all of TW3 and I don't think there was any mention of those orders changing from Frobisher. ugh.

Ok, now that I've babbled.

thaddeusfavour has eloquently said everything that I felt about CoE. Really, you should read it if you want to understand what the hell I just spewed into this LJ.

This is exactly what I felt but was afraid to say after thinking everything over:

"Simply put, three and one half hours of brilliant television, followed by one and a half hours of complete crap."

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*pat* Im sorry. Here is your proverbial moneys. Oh wait. Its gone.