Suppose it wouldn't hurt if he stepped aside for a stretch anyway. I'm not a big fan of Torchwood, and think the team dynamic is a bit crap in all honesty; they're all useless. Taking away that central figure might allow for the writers to work on the rest of them a little bit. Gwen aside, the rest all seem like wallpaper, whose specialities in "computers" "medicine" or "shagging Jack"are all they have going for them. Giving them one episode centric to their characters a series doesn't make them out to be something worth caring about in my opinion.