Torchwood why kill ianto

Because this is Serenity Plaza. Thank you for keeping him alive, and for always being there for absolute madness like Serenity. Gareth was initially nervous about reprising the role, but has embraced the audio medium, both as an actor and writer. Starring Derek Jacobi. Starring Georgia Tennant. Free Big Finish Newsletter. Toshiko finds the courage to ask Owen on a date, and he does eventually accept. Despite being dead, he is forced to exercise regularly to avoid the onset of rigor mortis.

The series two premiere establishes that Rhys became engaged to Gwen between the first and second series. She lives, especially from when Ianto died, in complete guilt. And she loses people around her all the time. However, everyone seems to be overlooking a very significant, important factor: in all his regenerations, the Doctor has been many things… but he has never been Welsh.

Doctor Who has a lot of ties to Wales, of course. It films there, for one thing. The organisation was destroyed at the end of season two of Torchwood with their Cardiff headquarters in ruins after a series of bombs rocked the Welsh capital. Torchwood season 5 has never happened — in spite of the fact the Doctor Who spinoff was never canceled.

Russell T. Davies launched the Torchwood spinoff series in , and the last season aired in Captain Jack Harkness became immortal in season 1 on Doctor Who in the last episode. The characters concerned died because the story demanded that they do so.

And yet, off the back of the death of Ianto, Internet campaigns have started to spring up. Take a look at www. The site is urging people to send a packet of coffee to Mark Thompson at the BBC, echoing the protests that saved the Jericho TV show in the States where mountains of nuts were sent to CBS, as a show of fan support for the programme. Only in the case of Jericho , the protest was about the canning of the whole programme, not the death of one character. Ad — content continues below.

Digging through the guest book for the site, the BBC is, to be fair, responding to such protests too. Personally, I find it hard to argue with that. In some instances, fans have threatened to boycott a fourth season of Torchwood should Ianto not return.