My $.02 on the Torchwood News

[neadods]

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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.

Comments

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Quite likely. Especially as they have to re-establish the series for a new audience in a new market. And we have such a track record of hosing quirky British shows...

Yeah, I heard what happened to Ashes to Ashes...

However, I will say that in destroying the Hub and ignoring the Rift, RTD already dismantled the basic premise.

Oh yes...

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I'm completely WHAT WERE YOU SMOKING? over our Life on Mars. The German version dune_drd mentioned sounds a lot more viable.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Oh was it LoM they did the American version of? I thought it was Ashes - my mistook (not my fandom so I hadn't paid *that* much attention - I just recollected certain of my FList going WTF? over it!)

[neadods.livejournal.com]

It was LoM. And it was, appropriately, way out there. The ending was completely insane.

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

Perversely, reading about the ending on Wikipedia made me want to watch it as it sounded so WTF as to be vastly entertaining. A literal "gene hunt"! I laughed out loud.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Oh joy!!

[neadods.livejournal.com]

To be fair, no American show is going to end on a suicide. It's just culturally Not Done.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

I wish it wasn't culturally acceptable here!

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I rather liked the shock value. At least he wasn't implying that all the cool kids do it.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Right.