I concur. It makes perfect strategic sense for Emma to appease Norman and act as a liaison and more importantly get as much info on Norman's shenanigans as possible. (Surely she's been reading his mind at every opportunity?) If Scott can't see that then he'll not be in character. She has every right, on the other hand, to be pretty miffed about X-Force.

I'm pretty sure he wasn't referring to Flatman from the GLA or Living Lightning from the Texas Rangers but that was another recentish outing.

I do think there has been an increased volume of representation of gay themes in all forms of media in recent years (Jack & Ianto, Tara & Willow) and this merely reflects the realisation that there are indeed gay people in society, in the same way the presence and portrayal of female and non-white figures changed over the last decades; so what can be perceived as shock value is really just an improvement in representation of the truth of the world we live in.

I was gobsmacked on seeing this last series. I'd almost given up on Russell T giving us a strong story after some weak plotting in Dr Who but this was a cracker. The ending was darkly perfect and I suspect Jack will be back with a completely different Torchwood next year. It was sad to have a gay relationship in a high profile show end the way it did (I hadn't realised the parallels with Buffy at the time but I miss Tara too) but again it served as yet another reason for Jack (killing his grandson notwithstanding) to escape to outer space in pain.