I don't know. The first time something made me cry was in the 5th episode, when that one man goes home to kill his daughters, his wife and himself, because well... I could so understand that, I could feel his despair.
Then the moment came where the soldiers started taking the kids and there were the moms, screaming and fighting, and children numb and crying and I had to stop and didn't think I wanted to see the rest of it anymore. That is so goddamn cheap. Of course that's devastating! That doesn't make it good writing though. Nothing wrong with the acting by the way (Ianto's sister? Bloody brilliant.)
But I figured I'd want to watch it at some point, so I might as well do it now and get it over with.
I think I'm the only one who thinks it makes sense for Jack to sacrifice his grandson. After all Jack has been through? How many horrible deaths has he died only to come back in an equally horribly painful manner, the cruelty he's seen and experienced, the people he's lost, of course giving up his grandson (and his bond with his daughter with it) isn't the same to him as it would be to anyone else.
You know what my major wtf moment has been in these five episodes? After Jack has been blown to pieces, come back to life in exquisite pain, been buried alive in concrete and then thrown from a cliff to be smashed out of it; and then when Rhys, Ianto and Gwen walk towards him from the car, Gwen has this look on her face of 'oh gosh, I can see his penis'. WTF IS THAT ALL ABOUT?!?!? Like anyone would bloody care that he's naked omg?! Grow up woman!
Anyway, I thought the plot was good, the acting was fantastic all around, and it all looked great. But did I want to see it? What was the point of it all? If their goal was to make me lose whatever faith I have in the basic goodness of mankind then yeah, they made a fairly good shot at it.
I'm going to look for the fluffiest schmoop in the history of Arthur/Merlin fics. Something tender and sweet and kind, with a little teasing.
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I actually quite liked the series overall, even the last episode, but then I do like it when something makes me feel, even if that feeling is sadness.
I honestly would have liked Ianto's death to have been a little more subtle - or perhaps, for Ianto to have been himself again before dying, instead of caught in the middle of his angst. It just feels like an unfinished death to me, like this.
Like a lot of other people, I'm kind of hoping this is the end - because, what a way to go out - but if it's not, I can't see them do anything but hit some kind of reset button. Unless they'd come up with an entire new cast, but I can't imagine that taking very well. Wait and see, I guess.
That goes for me too, but the thing is, I don't want to feel the same thing I get from watching the news. It was too much 'The people with power suck and the hardest way to hit anyone is by getting at their children'. It's the kind of fear I'm trying to overcome on a daily basis. It's a thought I need to escape, because I quite literally go insane when I think about it too much. I can talk about it, but I can't afford to let the feeling sneak in too much.
My husband and I feel the same way about it, and the thing he said about the 'deliver 10 percent of your kids to be at our mercy for all eternity or you all die' dilemma was, that in that case you pick to all die, because who wants to survive a decision like that? And it's something that I didn't see voiced enough in this series. Which is how it is in this world for real. Children suffer unspeakable horrors in this world and I feel utterly powerless. It's not that kind of feeling I want to see confirmed in a series, it's something I'm trying to escape.
I do feel they made the government in the series react in the worst way possible on purpose - I suppose so Torchwood could be viewed as the rebel heroes, in the middle of the series at least.