sariagray

I'm mostly neutral on Suzie. I don't love her or hate her. (I know scandal).She's probably one of those characters whose more interesting for me in fanfic than she was on the show which is pity because she clearly had a lot of potential and there are moments in TKKS when you get to see that.I do remember thinking when I first watched the pilot that if she hadn't been played by Indira Varma her death would have been even more meh than it ultimately was for me because we didn't exactly get to know her. (I always compare it to Helen's death on Spooks because I'm guessing that was the model). But as you said she was mostly a plot device to show the horrors of Torchwood and to give Gwen an in. Her speech though was why s1 despite it's many failings will always be the season where this show was its most interesting to me; that whole idea of the job as both potentially brilliant and psychologically and emotionally, as well as physically destructive was intriguing, we get hints of that throughout s1, but I'm not sure it ever went anywhere all that interesting in the end. But the idea of her feeling a need to join that group just so she'd have someone to talk to and then retconning them really stayed with me because it's just so sad and disturbing. It actually made me feel for her.