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A thought following on from the one I just posted about the future of Torchwood:
- Captain Jack Harkness should be the protagonist - as long as John Barrowman is able to play the role.
- Captain Jack Harkness should be omnisexual. Not heterosexual, not homosexual, but omnisexual. Likes all genders, human, alien, and other.
- Captain Jack should feel strong emotional ties to those around him.
- The Doctor should never be entirely forgotten.
- There should be many kinds of aliens featured and mentioned, some good, some bad.
- Torchwood should be an adult show, dealing with adult concepts. Which means it should have sex scenes and explore sexual issues, among other complex ideas. And have dialogue containing cursing.
- Issues of love, loyalty, trust and danger should be explored along with alternative world-views of all kinds. The should should use imagination and open the field, rather than use ideas that are already respectable and commonplace.
- The show should have serious stories, without forgetting some humanizing humour.
- The show should deal with with divergences in time and space, as well as present-day human monsters. Torchwood has its roots in the 19th century and has acquired flotsam and jetsam and a collection of mysterious alien technology over the years.
- The twenty-first century should be where everything changes.