It rather looks like Gwen and Ianto are going to die too. 8-( But they're not dead yet, so they might be saved at the last moment. And if they got killed off, that would mean that the entire cast of Torchwood except for Jack, would be gone. It's bad enough with half of them gone, TPTB wouldn't sabotage themselves even more by killing off the rest of them.
"Jack, to lose half your subordinates may be accounted a misfortune. To lose all of them looks lkke carelessness."
As for why 27 planets, something was said about them being in a stable configuration. So maybe the other 26 were taken solely so that the configuration would be stable when the Earth was added, and are otherwise of no interst to the Daleks at all.
As to the Dark Lord reference, maybe next week we'll get a Who/LotR cross-over. :)
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"Jack, to lose half your subordinates may be accounted a misfortune. To lose all of them looks lkke carelessness."
As for why 27 planets, something was said about them being in a stable configuration. So maybe the other 26 were taken solely so that the configuration would be stable when the Earth was added, and are otherwise of no interst to the Daleks at all.
As to the Dark Lord reference, maybe next week we'll get a Who/LotR cross-over. :)