Torchwood Series Two

In Dead Man Walking, there’s a moment where they believe Owen could be draining the life force of Jack. But no! It’s revealed to be something to do with Death himself. Er.

Question: why didn’t they go with the Jack/Owen route (no, that doesn’t denote slash)? It would’ve made a good contrast, it would’ve made character interactions the key as opposed to CGI skeleton fighting, and, well... I dunno, just the idea of Jack having to decide whether to keep Owen alive and risk killing himself (cos surely it’d be a massive drain of his life force, like Abaddon was) would’ve been more interesting. And by the time of Exit Wounds, it could’ve been possible that Owen’s continued existence had finally left Jack unable to die and come back to life, so Grey buries him – and then Owen dies forever, and Jack comes back.

I dunno, it just seems more captivating if it’d been a more intrinsically character-based thing rather than about a monster that I’ve taken the most seriously when reading Discworld.