Amen to all of the above. I don't have a quibble with the whole thematic set-up of Jack killing Steven (it's got that awful, grimly compelling aspect to it, and I haven't watched enough of Torchwood to know whether or not it's a total character betrayal), but I do have HUGE reservations with the way it was presented. I found it to be both gratuitous and nauseating. The Frobisher family's death was tough to watch, but I at least thought that it was handled effectively and relatively sensitively in terms of violence onscreen. Steven's death was just...yeah...didn't need to see that. Really didn't need to see that. Thanks for your post, which deals with it much more coherently than I can manage.
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Date: 2009-07-11 01:08 pm (UTC)