I'm really amazed by the responses to CoE. It seems to speak to a distinction between fannish vs. non-fannish viewing, or engagement with story vs. investment in characters. Or something?

1. You know the woman involved in the deliberations over selecting the 10%? I kept wondering if she was played by the actress who was the blonde, ditzy magazine editor in Absolutely Fabulous. Wikipedia tells me no, alas.

2. If you liked the actress who played Johnson, you should watch Dead Set. It was a 5-part zombie series that aired last year, centered on survivors in the Big Brother house. It's pretty good.

3. I'll give John Barrowman credit for stepping his performance up a notch in CoE, but even at his best it's nothing to write home about. He's being the series' biggest liability for me since the beginning, and I just can't really get worked up over immortality!angst in general. So here's my proposal for a fourth series: bring back Jack, but not to revive or lead Torchwood. Bring him back as the threat -- maybe he's gone insane, maybe he's possessed by a space succubus/incubus, maybe he's just not very human anymore and is ready to sell the planet off to the highest alien bidder. But make him the enemy, and make the series about how to kill him off for good.