Because YouTube keeps surprising you with nifty things you didn't know existed: having once written at length about why I love Shaw, I was delighted to find scenes from his play Caesar and Cleopatra in a tv production from 1976, starring Alec Guinness, no less, as Caesar, and Genevieve Bujold as Cleopatra. Here's the opening scene, a great example of the way Shaw subverts expectations. How his rethoric flaws and how the dialogue sparkles:



Two Torchwood links, both related to and spoilery for Children of Earth, one fanfiction, one meta:

The Time Traveler's Daughter: Alice and Jack before and after. Yes, someone was brave enough to tackle the after, and for decades, no less. Very moving story, and I do love when fanfic explores Alice.

Children of Earth: Ethics, narrative structure and meaning: meta focused on the most debated point in fandom: whether and why that event at the end of Day Four was necessary for the overall dramatic structure to work.