#and ianto

[itsatorchwoodthing]

someone told me that the plot of cyberwoman is that ianto shouldnt have tried to save lisa, ok but what about love? what about trying to save the person you love? what about orpheus looking back?

[tangerinelabyrinth]

My Semi-Ideal Torchwood Reboot

Torchwood reboot 8-to-13 episodes where bad stuff happens with the rift or aliens (classic Torchwood shenanigans), and we meet up with Gwen, who, despite better judgment and Rhys telling her no, knows she has to do something.

But she's alone. Jack and everyone else are gone with no way to find him. Gwen needs help with all the bad stuff, so she goes to find Martha Jones, the only other person she knows she can trust. Gwen first goes to UNIT knowing that Martha works there only to discover she no longer does and UNIT now wants to know what is going on that has Gwen worried but she won't tell them and just lies.

Gwen eventually tracks down Martha, who is now retired from her freelance alien hunting and is strictly just a doctor. Martha, who is hesitant as she's not sure how much help she could be and no longer does this kind of stuff, agrees to join Gwen.

In the first episode, Gwen and Martha obviously save the day from whatever disaster is occurring but realize that it's not going to stop and that this isn't just a one-time thing and that in order for the earth to remain safe, they will have to bring back Torchwood. Of course, with trying to keep the reinstated "Torchwood" a secret specifically from UNIT, who will obviously want to handle things their way.

With Torchwood being back, they now need more help. Now this is where they could add some new original characters to join Martha and Gwen, which would be nice or, like always, Torchwood starts to not become as secret and word spreads that it is back, specifically to a certain support group, specifically to Yaz, who starts having an interest in this Torchwood business only to find nothing when researching it, but she manages to find something (I don't know what) that helps track down Gwen and Martha and she asks to join; Gwen is against it but when Yaz mentions the Doctor, Martha is on board, with Yaz joining Torchwood.

I think they should have at least two new original characters join; I think that would be great.

My thought is that by the last two episodes, UNIT joins them and they team up to take down whatever evil force is at play and in my perfect reboot, we would get Martha and Donna reuniting, with Donna mentioning the Doctor living with her and Martha finally getting the apology she deserves from him! and her flowers for all the hard work she did.

This is long but this would be my semi-ideal Torchwood reboot if they ever decide to bring it back. Thoughts? Opinions? Your ideal Torchwood reboot? would love to hear them.

[ocean-irl]

Wake up babe, new Doctor Who snog chart just dropped. (insp.)

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

writing fanfiction is just fingers clenching over a keyboard as you ferally mutter i just want this little guy to be held, damn it and proceeding to hurt said little guy (gn) for about 10k words before you actually give them their hug

[greenwith-ivy]

torchwood s1 is so funny because we all laugh about the dogshit management going down at torchwood three but it really was that bad. owen and suzie are just taking alien shit home for their own purposes, ianto's been hiding his half-dead cyberwoman girlfriend in the basement for months unnoticed, tosh's one night stand gives her a necklace that lets you read minds and she just doesn't mention it. at the end of the season they mutiny. by the start of kiss kiss bang bang gwen is doing a better job leading the team than jack ever did

[iotsketches]

in another life, i would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you

[theangelofbrahma]

something about characters who are not necessarily doomed by the narrative but definitely doomed by their jobs

[whiloww]

In honor of Indira Varna being in tonight’s episode…

[thetrinitytest]

choose your fighter

[captainfairygodmother]

"The idea that gay people naturally draw towards eachother and form groups is a myth"

Okay how do you explain this then????

[itsatorchwoodthing]

literally the plot of the doctor dances

[the-torchwood-archive]

[machetesquirrel]

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

Alright, I'll say it: Jack Harkness and the Doctor's relationship is possibly the most fleshed out/complicated dynamic in Doctor Who and that is INCLUDING the master/doctor relationship. Seriously, think about it:

the fact that when they meet jack is presented as sleazy con man and the doctor makes him brave- makes him good

but that they are both willing to die for rose as long as she is safe

and then she comes back and dooms them both to live (even though jack has already died for her and the doctor WILL die for her)

(ninerosejack is canon and you cannot convince me otherwise)

but then the doctor sees jack as immortal as someone he COULD spend the rest of his life with

and instead of embracing it like you'd think he would because he is so wrecked by people leaving him/being left by him the doctor RUNS bc the Doctor is so scared of jack of what he means of what he is

jack ends up abandoned in dalek dust goes back in time to find the doctor suffers a hundred years alone/being tortured but STILL WAITS

(screw amy being the girl who waited or rory being the boy who waited- Jack Harkness is the boy who waited and he did it FIRST)

Jack finds out that he was abandoned. that the man that he loves HATES the sight of him. that the doctor would rather have a genocidal murderer than have him

and so Jack gets the hell out of dodge to go to a man who DOES love him

and don't get me wrong Jack loves Ianto and Jack DOES remember Ianto until he dies as the Face of Boe don't forget that (protecting Novice Hame from the virus as he couldn't Ianto

BUT AFTER EVERYTHING THE DOCTOR HAS DONE TO JACK JACK STILL LOVES THEM

Jack still considers five billion years cursed to never die to be BETTER than the alternative: dying a young time-agent-turned-con-man

Jack has more reason than any other companion save maybe Amy to hate the Doctor & yet spends 20 years in jail to rescue Thirteen still LOVES HER

AND AFTER FIVE BILLION YEARS HE ORGANIZES THAT FIRST MEETING ON SATELLITE FIVE HE ORGANIZES 9/ROSE'S FIRST DATE

jack harkness is a living ghost a reminder of the doctor's failures a physical fixed point and yet he still loves the girl who cursed him and the time lord that turned him into the kind of person that would give his dying breaths to protect the last of humanity in a dying city and tell the doctor that he is not alone

because fuck it, YANA was a warning but also a reminder a final gift

jack had been there all along, a ghost an echo a PROMISE

there is no more human character than jack harkness

[plasmakirby1234]

I love kicking back watching other fandoms make graffiti of their characters in places

like imagine not having a full on shrine to a tumblr sexy man in the downtown of the capital of a country

[the-doctor-dances]