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My $.02 on the Torchwood News
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To keep this from being entirely content free, and because everyone's posting their $.02 about Torchwood being picked up: (WARNING: I'm not squeeing)
Starz can afford it, at least. It shouldn't look or be cheap. And it sounds like John Barrowman and Eve Myles will get some free trips out of filming.
However, it's being run by the exact same team and RTD has already said that the first episode is "shocking and touching," for which I read "bloodsoaked and emotionally manipulative." As I still have not forgiven them for the end of COE, I intend to neither be shocked, touched, nor watching. Maybe if they get through without killing off 60% of the cast and torturing children to death onscreen, I'll catch up after.
To keep this from being entirely content free, and because everyone's posting their $.02 about Torchwood being picked up: (WARNING: I'm not squeeing)
Starz can afford it, at least. It shouldn't look or be cheap. And it sounds like John Barrowman and Eve Myles will get some free trips out of filming.
However, it's being run by the exact same team and RTD has already said that the first episode is "shocking and touching," for which I read "bloodsoaked and emotionally manipulative." As I still have not forgiven them for the end of COE, I intend to neither be shocked, touched, nor watching. Maybe if they get through without killing off 60% of the cast and torturing children to death onscreen, I'll catch up after.
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So were gladiator battles, I'm just sayin'.
The rest of it is what would have to happen. The overlap between Starz and BBCA is doubtless miniscule; they'd have to start over to explain everything - an explanation that will doubtless retcon the Hub and Rift away (which I am a bit bitter about, as it was The Whole Point for two seasons). And considering where they are, of course they'd get American actors.
But considering what Torchwood was and what it's become (and certainly in view of where it started on Who) - why not just slap a new name on the damned thing and be done with it? When the Hub blew, we went from Torchwood to The Sequel.
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I'm just saying, he's in it to make money like everyone else and this potentially makes him money. It's certainly more profitable with the general U.S. public, this particular formula, than Doctor Who ever has been or looks to be despite any name recognition.
"The overlap between Starz and BBCA is doubtless miniscule; they'd have to start over to explain everything - an explanation that will doubtless retcon the Hub and Rift away (which I am a bit bitter about, as it was The Whole Point for two seasons)."
They've specifically said the show's going to be removed from its Cardiff location and set "all over the world" but "mostly in North America" (insert waspish comment about what many U.S. viewers think = "all over the world" here), so I can't imagine how they could possibly incorporate either Hub or Rift except as a throwaway expository reference. Maybe not even that, as it sounds like they can just as well do an alien-hunting show or whatever the new plotline will be without involving questions of time and thus the Rift in it at all--particularly since there's no hint there'll be any Whovian connection remaining at all.
"But considering what Torchwood was and what it's become (and certainly in view of where it started on Who) - why not just slap a new name on the damned thing and be done with it?"
Just plain old branding, I assume, so he can keep the people who started watching the old version as well as pick up the new.
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If it takes off, it'll make a mint. And if they pitch it as gladiatorial games, well - I may be cheesed off, but I also know how well 300 and Spartacus did.
He's going to have to dump the entire Hub/Rift idea... or give the Hub wireless and open Rifts all over the world.
...huh. That might actually work, especially if they're going to suggest that they are traveling all over
the USthe world.so he can keep the people who started watching the old version as well as pick up the new.
Hrm. As many people were pissed off by CoE as loved it, I think, not that I've done a scientific sampling.
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And as the little piece on the TW pickup I read pointed out, Starz is the network that just gave us Spartacus: Blood and Sand, proving that not only are they willing to take a chance on gladiators but they're willing to tolerate some real extremes on nudity, sex and violence.
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