--Spoiler Warning for Children of the Earth--








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For those of you who either already know or don't care, this is my kind of tribute to Ianto Jones. I must admit that his death blind-sided me in a way that, literally, no other character has. I was absolutely not expecting that.

Children of the Earth was wonderful, I thought, dispite this heavy loss. It was wonderfully shot and mixed, the acting was the best it has ever been, and the story kept me begging for more (and screaming at the TV at the end).

It makes me wonder where Torchwood is headed from here, if anywhere. I've read that Russell T. Davies was quoted to have said something to the effect of "If Children of the Earth is well recieved, then there is another season ready to go." But how could you really go back to the way Torchwood was after this?

As sad as I am over the death of my favorite character, I will keep an open mind should there be another season. It will be starting fresh, for sure. I think, though, if there's one person who must be in a new season, it is Jack. The story can survive without Ianto (even though we will miss him very much), and can survive without Gwen. We've seen it can survive without Toshiko or Owen, and in fact, I don't think that Children of the Earth would've been half as good if they had still been around.

Don't get me wrong, I love Tosh and Owen, but the flow of the story would've been much choppier if they had five main characters to deal with instead of just three. As it was, three was a good number for this season.

This certainly won't be the last thing I do for Ianto, but the rest of it will most likely be in the form of fan fiction. No, I do not plan to bring him back in anyway. I was expecting Russell T. Davies to do that for us, and when he didn't, I had to accept that the character is gone. But I have other ideas...

I think that was the worst part: the lull between day four and five, sitting and waiting, wondering if he was going to come back by some miraculous loop hole. I'm okay with him being gone...my heart might've been ripped out and stomped on, but I'm okay with it now that I know for sure. Closure is the best thing, even if it's sad.

The interesting part was that it came out that no one really knew Ianto at all. We thought we knew something about him, but then Rhiannon, his sister, got all mad at Gwen when she was talking to him because the information Gwen was spouting was wrong. Apparently, Ianto had lied to everyone about himself, which was really sad.

My final word is that Children of the Earth was such a whirlwind and so good that I spent the whole rest of the night after the end going "It was so good...and I'm so bummed...but it was so good..."

For Ianto Jones
1983-2009
May Gareth David-Lloyd move on and do great things
And may the fans allow and accept this

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