The WORST Thing About Torchwood

I was actually a fairly big fan of BBC's Torchwood, especially series 3 if you've never heard of it, it's a spin-off series from Doctor Who aimed at a more adult audience, featuring darker stories, sex, gore and all things like that. Series 3, also known as Children of Earth i felt was a fantastic series, an alien comes to Earth who can control all of the children and demands 10% be given to them or they'll kill everyone, it really explored the darkest parts of humanity as well as furthering along our main character's own story arcs and contain great drama...But then there's this one speech by Gwen about The Doctor which really pisses me the fuck off. In an attempt to explain why The Doctor isn't helping out in a major event like this, Gwen ponders this theory: "Sometimes, I wonder why he never helped... where was he, this Doctor that Jack talks about, during the countless times, when the world needed him? Why was he nowhere to be seen? But then I think... when he looks at the world, and what we have done to it... what we are currently doing, and... he probably turns away, in shame"

Basically put this is single handedly the worst line ever associated with anything Doctor Who. To ever suggest that The Doctor would ever turn his back on humanity, on people crying out for help, that he might doubt that we were worth saving is offensive to the whole idea behind The Doctor. The Doctor is a hero, he's a man who never gives up, he's a man who sacrifice his own existence for the sake of a single life, even if for some reason he couldn't help, he would do something, he would call for others to help in his stead, he was assure the human race that they are not alone, he would never abandon them. Especially out of "shame", the man who executed his entire race to put them out of their misery and to save the rest of the universe, a man with that much pain would never run away out of shame, because if he did then who the hell is he to judge!? 'Never cruel or cowardly. Never give up. Never give in.' That is the promise of The Doctor. And the fact that this was written by Russell T Davies, the man who brought Doctor Who back and into it's golden age to so badly understand the character! So with this i'd like to end this with a quote from Stephen Moffat about The Doctor, who though i've had my problems with Moffat's writing in the past, this is a perfect summary of The Doctor.

"When they made this hero they didn't give him a gun, they gave him a screwdriver to fix things. They didn't give him a tank or a warship or an X-Wing fighter, they gave him a call box from which you can call for help. And they didn't give him superpowers, they gave him an extra heart. There will never come a time when we don't need a hero like The Doctor."

-Danny