It's almost over? I don't want it to be over! I want more Jack! I want more Claude! (According to IMDB, he won't be in any of the last five episodes--and I know IMDB can be wrong about these things, but dammit, hearing things like that makes me nervous.) I want to see that future, I want to see everything about that future--it looks like a kinda happy future, and you know that's not going to happen in the show. (And it looks like a future with Claude in it, which--damn you Christopher Eccleston and your inability to commit to TV shows--does not seem like it will happen either.)

Speaking of Claude:

So that's how it is, he thought to himself. All those demands, all that discipline, and that's the return. But he's proud of me. Finally. And because of that I'll take two seconds of contact and be content.

That's kind of sweeter than it would be if there had been some real obvious affection, I think. (Although judging from what you've said about the deleted scenes, one would imagine he gets rather more than just two seconds in the end.)