i absolutely love how ten’s first season of doctor who introduces torchwood but just mentions it here and there and never actually shows it, but stresses that it’s regarded as this top secret super mysterious organisation with a higher order than the government and more powerful than the doctor himself, just enough to get everyone intrigued, so everyone watching is thinking oohohoho, what’s torchwood??? and then the actual spinoff show gets made and it turns out it’s just a bunch of aggressively depressed and perpetually horny bisexuals who have chinese takeaway tuesdays and occasionally shag aliens
even fucking better, in 2×03 it’s stated that torchwood was set up to combat the threat of the doctor’s presence on earth, and yet in the 21st century, “when everything changes”, its leader is completely infatuated and borderline obsessed with the doctor. captain jack harkness straight up destroyed over one hundred years of work because he got a boner for a tortured pretty boy. icon