It's not even true that everybody dies young in Torchwood as there are many examples of operatives who actually survived the curse or at least reached a certain age.
And then there is of course Gwen for whom the 'dying' rule just doesn't apply.
Re Jack's - or the Doctor's - immortality as an excuse for his cold bastard attitude, that's just another example of poor characterisation for the sake of cheap melodrama.
Am I supposed to feel sympathy for poor Jack who treats lovers like shit because he can't stand to lose them? As if Jack is the only living being in the entire universe who loses loved ones! Because of course it only happens to poor immortals to outlive the people they love *rolls eyes*
You'd think that after 150 Jack would have learned his lesson and changed approach to the problem by trying to treasure those around him for as long as he can keep them or even, I don't know, by doing something like actually trying his best to protect them and see if he can manage to make one of his lovers reach at least 50?
The decent thing to do in CoE was to have Jack going to face the alien threat ALONE and making so pretty clear to the audience, old and new, that Jack would have never allowed Ianto to go with him because it was dangerous. That would have been IC and realistic and would have shown that Jack really cared about his young and vulnerable lover.
When, only after provoking the aliens, he went with the line 'Ianto you have to get out of here, I cannot die but you can' that was totally for the new viewers' exclusive benefit while it caused me the DUH! moment and the final realisation that Jack is the greatest retard ever.
Re: On people dying young in Torchwood
And then there is of course Gwen for whom the 'dying' rule just doesn't apply.
Re Jack's - or the Doctor's - immortality as an excuse for his cold bastard attitude, that's just another example of poor characterisation for the sake of cheap melodrama.
Am I supposed to feel sympathy for poor Jack who treats lovers like shit because he can't stand to lose them? As if Jack is the only living being in the entire universe who loses loved ones! Because of course it only happens to poor immortals to outlive the people they love *rolls eyes*
You'd think that after 150 Jack would have learned his lesson and changed approach to the problem by trying to treasure those around him for as long as he can keep them or even, I don't know, by doing something like actually trying his best to protect them and see if he can manage to make one of his lovers reach at least 50?
The decent thing to do in CoE was to have Jack going to face the alien threat ALONE and making so pretty clear to the audience, old and new, that Jack would have never allowed Ianto to go with him because it was dangerous. That would have been IC and realistic and would have shown that Jack really cared about his young and vulnerable lover.
When, only after provoking the aliens, he went with the line 'Ianto you have to get out of here, I cannot die but you can' that was totally for the new viewers' exclusive benefit while it caused me the DUH! moment and the final realisation that Jack is the greatest retard ever.