"Torchwood"'s Russell T Davies Makes No Apologies — For Anything

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So when Torchwood's Ianto Jones (Gareth David-Lloyd) unexpectedly perished in the fourth episode of the baru-baru ini Children of Earth miniseries, the reaction among many gay peminat-peminat was almost instantaneous — not...