Found you via someone on my f-list, and I think we must have seen the same CoE, because all of this is pretty bang-on, IMO.
One other thing that I noticed about major character deaths in Torchwood (and even some of the minor ones) is that death seems to take people when they're still a little bit unfinished. Tosh and Owen die when they round the corner that could offer them a relationship and some happiness together. Owen even manages to do it twice by coming to terms with being dead. Ianto does it when he finally comes into his own and starts resolving his life/relationships/family splits.
We never get to the proverbial 'happily ever after' with any of them. Which, artistically, is an incredibly strong statement, and a strong reinforcement of the S1 message of finding happiness and meaning in a life which may have none objectively.
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Date: 2009-08-22 12:36 pm (UTC)One other thing that I noticed about major character deaths in Torchwood (and even some of the minor ones) is that death seems to take people when they're still a little bit unfinished. Tosh and Owen die when they round the corner that could offer them a relationship and some happiness together. Owen even manages to do it twice by coming to terms with being dead. Ianto does it when he finally comes into his own and starts resolving his life/relationships/family splits.
We never get to the proverbial 'happily ever after' with any of them. Which, artistically, is an incredibly strong statement, and a strong reinforcement of the S1 message of finding happiness and meaning in a life which may have none objectively.