purplecat

It may be that as someone who doesn't get particularly attached to ships or, perhaps more accurately, secretly quite likes it when they end up all doomed and angsty that I didn't view the episodes in that way at all. But it may also be that I have relatively little interest in the Torchwood team and so found myself focusing much more strongly on the Quatermass-style stuff that was going on in the other half of the plot.

I think, if you don't like the direction Children of Earth clearly signaled Torchwood was going in, then its an entirely sensible reaction to cancel orders for Torchwood spin-offery. I know that I, myself, am far too prone to carry on reading or watching a series long after it has ceased to hold my interest. But I do think it's a little silly to do so over one creative decision you don't like, as a kind of revenge on the writers, if you are otherwise happy with the product. The reactions I've seen to Children of Earth seem to fall into both camps and there is sufficient noise to make them difficult to distinguish.

It may be James Moran is being an over-sensitive flower here. But the reactions quoted in his blog post seemed out of line to me, and I wasn't impressed by my quick skim of the twitter log thing.