Re: Did any of you Doctor Who/Torchwood fans NOT love Children of Eart
And my criticisms, they don't hold any water for you?
They don't really have to: you don't like it, and you have every right not to like it. Your view of the characters in particular is completely subjective and there's nothing that can be said about that: if you don't like them, you don't like them.
I am, however, not convinced by some of your other arguments, mostly because it seems to me that you're knocking
Children of Earth not for what it is, but for what it is not; not for what it does, but for what it doesn't do.
You apparently can't get into the story because what you perceive as logical flaws in the plot and in the way some characters behave. I would say that most of the points you're raising are actually addressed within the story, which is all one can reasonably ask from any writer.
It's self evident that the most logical stories, the one where everything makes perfect sense and where every character acts perfectly rationally, are usually not the best stories, those that speak about human nature and the way we interact with the world and with each other. Simply put, we are not rational, and the universe is far too complex to be entirely predictable.
Logic doesn't make drama better: verisimilitude and internal consistency do, but they operate on a different level. Yes, Hamlet should probably leave Denmark and forget the whole thing. Yes, Scrooge's change of heart is far-fetched. Yes, Captain Jack might have come up with a different way to defeat the 456. But yet we remember those stories, not because they're nitpick-proof, but because they're true to the human experience.
