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Guides
Hey, sorry about that. But they're very much supposed to be short-ish summaries of the overall seasons. It even says at the top
- It's probably not the optimal route to experience the franchise, as it's greatly simplifying a ton of context, and at times outright slightly misrepresenting what happens in a story because the actual plot is a little too complicated to explain in a few sentences
The point of them is to give people a bite sized understanding of things so they can go into whatever era they want with the bare minimum of context, not to have an understanding of the emotional arcs of the relevant characters or to know who Jack is and that he's immortal (a fun fact, but every time he's introduced in the show and it's important it's stated). I do note that we don't have guides for Torchwood yet, so if you want to talk about Jack and his arc, you could write some in the relevant style for that show - even incorporating parts of DW S1 and S3 into it.