I thought the mini-series was brilliant. I mean, I was sitting there horrified and afraid of what was coming next, but with a lot of shows, that reaction would have made me turn over in haste. But this...this gripped me. I had to watch to the end to see how it ended. And the cabinet meeting about the school league tables was so cold. Because in the end, human beings are just as scary as the big bad aliens. Personally, I love a show that has the balls to go all out and have the hero sacrificing someone or something close to them, obstensibly for the greater good. If it had been badly handled or acted or directed, it would have fallen flat but I think they did fantastically with the material.

I like Jack but I've always thought him a very ineffectual leader. Season 1 of Torchwood always bothered me because he never seemed to step up and really lead his team. Whether that was intentional or just how I percieved it, I don't know. So I wasn't really surprised to see him do a bunk at the end.