Torchwood - Combat & Meat

[itsnotmymind]

I really appreciate that Torchwood tells stories of aliens being abused by humans. Tosh even calls Jack on their own mistreatment of a weevil in Combat.

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[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

Now that you mention it, it is refreshing. It would have been so easy (and honestly, commonplace) to make them sort of stock "acceptable targets." But while from what I remember they are very much lowkey villains, they are also beings with thoughts and feelings.

I'll grant you, I haven't watched Torchwood in a very long time, so there could be things I am forgetting. But that's what I seem to recall.

[itsnotmymind.livejournal.com]

Yep, there are definitely a lot of aliens who are just bad and need to be killed, but they don't shy away from sympathizing with aliens as well - even sometimes murderous aliens like weevils.