This is sort of an ethical one. It's also a Becki-talks-about-TV blog. Enjoy =]

The basic storyline of this series was that these aliens, the 456, came to earth and demanded the gov. gave them 10% of the world's children or they 456 would kill everyone. Not so huge in itself. But then it started getting fucked up. The 456 hooked the kids up to themselves and took them as drugs. The government went all utilitarian and decided to give the 456 the world's bottom 10% of kids; the ones, they said, who were destined for a life of teenage pregnancies and jail. Who would miss those kids?

So, with only 3 people left in torchwood (owen and tosh died at the end of series two) and the government trying to stop them because they knew torchwood would object to trading kids as drugs, torchwood set out to stop things. At the end of episode 4 Ianto was killed by the 456; at the time this didn't bother me tooo much because Own had died before during series two but they'd brought him back to life with this resurrection glove (k, getting too sci-fi, I know I know)- basically I thought they'd figure a way to bring him back. They didnt.

With Torchwood now looking more like the "Gwen and Jack show", the last episode was one of the most depressing things I ever saw. Literally 20 minutes of the show was devoted to footage of soldiers forcibly taking struggling kids away from screaming and tearful parents- this struck a nerve with me particularly because that kind of shit really happens. Soldiers taking kids I mean. In the Rwnadan genocide, for instance, screwed up things like that happened all the time. It's a war, no one misses missing kids.

Anyway. This guy Frobisher, who worked for the gov, got told he would give his kids to the soldiers willingly for "innoculation" (the pretext they gave for taking the kids). Frobisher didn't like that, hell no. He took a gun and killed his wife, his two childeren, and finally himself. I liked him for that. I know that sounds fucked up too but, really, that's what I would have done. Well, near enough. I'd have told the wife and together we'd have gone and asked the kids if they would rather be taken away from us and have horrible things done to them or die. Whatever they answered, we'd roll with that.

Eventually Jack figured a way to kill the 456, but it involved blowing up his own grandson. Betcha can't guess what he did. Sooo the 456 exploded and the 10% of kids were saved...

But this made no sense. The gov made the tank for the 456 to live in without being threatened at all. From this ending it seemed that, if they hadn't done that, everything would've been OK. So that made no sense but yeah...

I don't think there'll be anymore torchwood now. At the end Jack buggered off to find a new life for himself, seeing as how he'd fucked up his earth one pretty nicely, and Gwen was 6 months pregnant. I can't see her running round risking her life for world security with a family behind her. So yah...

That's all I have to say. Just felt like breaking that down for y'all who don't watch it lol