Dear Russell Davies: Our Plan to Fix Torchwood

The release of the TorchwoodSeries 2 DVD gave us the opportunity to watch (in some cases watch for the first time) every episode of the second season. And the verdict? In the immortal words of Ed Grimley, "totally decent, I must say." John Barrowman still rocks. With that out of the way, I'll add that the show is also showing troubling signs of flaming out after the upcoming mini-series. Series Two had at least one genuinely terrible episode ("From Out of the Rain") and a few marginal ones ("Something Borrowed," "To The Last Man"). Unlike Doctor Who, Torchwood doesn't have a multi-decade reserve of goodwill and nostalgia to fall back on. Unlike Buffy, Captain Jack isn't a teenager whose adolescent angst can be mined for a season's worth of new story arcs. Here are five things we'd like to see more (and less) of in the Series 3 mini-series that ...