the last image of the show before entering Wilderness Era 2.0 is Kate Stewart pulling a gun on a jogger for littering on the beach

“you don’t expect a sunset to admire you back” EXCEPT IT DOES THE STARS THEMSELVES LOVE YOU BACK RIVER YOU ARE ALWAYS HERE TO HIM AND HE ALWAYS LISTENS AND HE CAN ALWAYS SEE YOU AND THE TOWERS SANG AND HE CRIED AND HE ALWAYS KNEW HOW IT WOULD END AND ONE NIGHT IS 24 YEARS AND HE WAS AFRAID IT WOULD HURT TOO MUCH AND HE WAS RIGHT AND HELLO SWEETIE AND WATCH US RUN AND TIME CAN BE REWRITTEN BUT NOT THOSE TIMES NOT ONE LINE AND HE DOESN’T KNOW HOW TO SAY GOODBYE AND HE GAVE YOU HIS SCREWDRIVER AND HE TOLD YOU HIS NAME AND IF YOU HAPPEN TO FIND YOURSELF IN DANGER HE IS ABSOLUTELY STUPID ENOUGH AND SENTIMENTAL ENOUGH AND IN LOVE ENOUGH TO FIND HIMSELF STANDING IN IT WITH YOU AND WHEN THE WIND STANDS FAIR AND THE NIGHT IS PERFECT AND WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT BUT ALWAYS WHEN YOU NEED IT MOST THERE IS A SONG

Don't let me be the Doctor Who showrunner. I'd just make it a DoctorRiver fanfic show.

Torchwood confounds me, because I legitimately can never tell if it's a good show or not. And it's not even the "it's kinda mid and isn't very strongly written but has a few good episodes" kind of ambiguous, oh, no. It's the "seesawing between the best show you've ever seen and television so bad it makes you want to hurl your TV through the wall" kind of ambiguous. It'll present you with angsty, sort of boring, weirdly sexual and terribly written episodes that make you uncomfortable, mad, and bored all at once, then drop some of the most fascinating concepts and writing and worldbuilding in recent Doctor Who an episode later, then follow it up with ANOTHER incredible episode that absolutely knocks it out of the park character-and-writing-wise with amazing character dynamics and some truly phenomenal conflicts and worldbuilding implications, and THEN finish it off with a season finale so bad you want to erase it from your concept of canon forever and then maybe go hunt down Russel T Davies for sport. There is no in-between. It's like the show is at war with itself over if it wants to be high-quality fiction or the sci-fi-TV-show equivalent of soiled shorts left out in the sun. It's infuriating.

Sarah Jane and the Bannerman road gang would 100% be able to resolve the situations Torchwood crew find themselves in, but the Torchwood crew would never be able to handle the situations thrown at them in the SJA , like dealing with the Trickster and alternative times.