torchwood day five review

So much for a happy ending.

With Children of Earth's critical success and record UK ratings, I'm certain show creator Russell T. Davies will get the chance to bring Torchwood back to TV next year. But how can he? (Spoilers ahead).

Ianto is dead. Gwen is almost a mother. Captain Jack, wracked with guilt and stripped of his white hat, is gone. And Torchwood is finished. It would be a shame to see the show end forever after its finest hour, but where can it go from here?

It's hard to imagine Jack Harkness ever returning to Earth as the dashing and witty hero. Watching him drain the life out of his grandson was the most shocking thing about this episode. It was even more shocking than Forbisher's murder-suicide. Some might say Jack's reprehensible action was out of character. I'm not going to speak to that here. It happened. It's canon. Jack sacrificed his family and his humanity to save a world he can longer live in. Just another price he had to pay for his involvement in the 1964 incident, and for being an immortal. Now he truly is an eternal outsider. The only choice he has is to start over somewhere else.

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