On the events of Day Four
Dear Torchwood,

...I got nothin'. I'm assuming there was rioting across Britain earlier, though, and that fangirl armadas are--as I type--steaming across the oceans toward the British Isles, powered solely by devastated indignation and fury.

If you haven't put a Fix Switch in Day Five, I sure hope you've sequestered your writers in some kind of impregnable fortress somewhere. A little something I like to call "the kajillion OH HELL, NO reaction posts on my flist" tells me you people should be battening the hatches right about now.

If, in fact, your entire reason for making Children of Earth was so you could go down in history as the first people to have committed suicide by fangirl...well played, TW writers. Well played.

*slow clap*,

Jayne

Hee.

For the record, yes, I'm sad, but I'm actually more amused than anything. Not in a funny-ha-ha way (well...maybe a little funny-ha-ha, in response to the apparently epic nature of this show's cojones when it comes to making enemies of its fangirls), but in a holy-crap-this-is-really-damn-good-TV way. I don't know if Ianto's death is going to stick, but at this point, I tend to think that, if it doesn't, the show will have undermined itself just when it had finally managed to graduate from cheap melodrama to taut, suspenseful, actual drama. (IMO, YMMV, etc etc. I know others think differently, but I have always been able to take Doctor Who way more seriously than TW.)

Sure, I'll be happy if there's a reset button that brings Ianto back to life, 'cause he snarks, wears shiny vests and kisses Jack really well. But revivifying Ianto would be Typical Torchwood, and to my mind, Children of Earth has been a pretty damn excellent example of Atypical TW. So...yes.

Anyway.

Finally, I'd just like to say that this Capaldi dude who plays Frobisher is awesome. That is one hell of actor, right there. *approves*