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Confession time: I know this is almost heresy, but I still can't shake off the feeling that MD might have been better (not that it isn't good; I loved the last episode and this one was also quite brilliant) without the connection to TW. It's just... every time they switch back to Wales, Rhys, Gwen's family, or sometimes even in the scenes with Jack and Gwen... somethings jars. Just a little bit, but it does. It doesn't feel quite natural to me. There's always the tiniest crack in the fourth wall. ( spoilers )

It almost — almost — makes me wish TW had stayed dead after CoE, because the irony is that, on some level, apparently I want the new story, the new characters, more than another season of TW. It took me a couple of episodes to warm up to the American characters, but watching Escape to L.A. I suddenly caught myself thinking that I care about Esther and her sister quite a bit more than I care about Gwen and her father.


On the other hand, of course I do want Jack's story to go on, I loved his scenes in Dead of Night, and in any case the whole premise of MD depends on him, so this is all really a bit of a paradox.


Gah. I don't know; I'm so torn. I never expected this to happen.


(ETA: I might change my mind again about all of this once I rewatch the episodes. It's really only some kind of vague feeling that comes and goes and that I can't satisfactory put into words. In the end, it might just be me. Probably is.)