Torchwood

Arthur Dent

Did any of you think Harriet Jones did the right thing in ordering the destruction of the Sycoraxic mother ship, even though the alien invaders had surrendered and were leaving Earth after the Doctor defeated their chieftain in a duel? In many ways I felt that the Doctor had every right to feel appalled and disgusted with Harriet Jone's unethical decision in dealing with the Sycoraxic menace; the Doctor had solved the problem of the Sycoraxic invasion with little blood spilled, the Sycoraxic were keeping their honour true and were leaving Earth never to trouble that planet again, then out of nowhere PM Jones orders the retreating Sycoraxic ship to be blown out of the sky anyway. All that hard work by the Doctor to prevent a massacre for nothing. I felt the Doctor had every right to be pissed off at that act of genocide.

But then again Harriet Jones perhaps did the right thing and the Doctor was being hopelessly naive in this case. Maybe Harriet Jones was just being a ruthless pragmatist in protecting the Earth. The Sycoraxic did invade Earth first with the malicious intention of plundering it's resources and selling all the humans into slavery, then through "blood control" they held up 2 billion people hostage. To make things worse, Harriet Jones was then kidnapped and then she watched two of her aides murdered before her eyes by these sadistic looking alien creatures. If I was in her position, I would probably do the same thing to protect Earth, even though Harriet Jones seemed to motivated by revenge or spite rather than rational thought or compassion.

And is Torchwood some kind of special division of U.N.I.T.? And the death ray Torchwood used to blast the Sycoraxic mother ship was obviously inspired by the Death Star Superlaser. They mentioned that this Torchwood death ray superweapon was reversed engineered from a crashed alien ship, a decade before. I wonder how U.N.I.T./Torchwood deployed this London sized superweapon?

K9!