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Steven Moffat Denies John Barrowman's Hint That He's Holding Up More Torchwood


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Well this all seems a bit awkward! I'm not John Barrowman's biggest fan frankly, but I can understand why he's so frustrated at the BBC seeming to have forgotten Torchwood. It always seemed to do very well in the ratings, so it is a bit puzzling why they just stopped making it. Blaming Steven Moffat is a stretch through, it seems more likely to be because Chris Chibnall and Russell T. Davis have other stuff going on now, and they were the original executive producers?

I've skipped the latest series of TW, so I really can't comment on Miracle Day, BUT I have some thoughts to share anyway! *g*

Okay series one was very rough in parts, but series two had some really good episodes and at the time people were happily agreeing that TW was taking a turn for the better, the characters worked more as a team, and the show was more consistent. But then Children Of Earth aired and there seemed to be this general dismissal of all of former TW as being a bit of silly crack in comparison.

But the closest to outright comedy in series two came with Gwen's wedding episode (which I loved anyway) and perhaps the intro episode with Captain John, otherwise it had just as many powerful storylines with Sleeper, To The Last Man, Adrift etc, and dealt with the death of Owen as well in several episodes. Even Fragments explored the really depressing reasons that the team got recruited into TW with Tosh locked up, Owen losing his wife and so on. And hey, going back a little further, I thought They Keep Killing Susie was incredibly depressing what with the discussion of their being no afterlife, and Jack blaming Torchwood for people dying. Or Countryside with the human beings being the monsters

I'd agree that the finales for series 1 and 2 were both a bit O/T and badly done, but otherwise I'm just not sure why Children Of Earth (and later Miracle Day) suddenly became a time for people to start talking about ~serious drama~, and dismissing the earlier seasons as being somehow lesser and just this big ball of cheese? That's not how I remember them at any rate...

There's (possibly?) going to be a US remake of Torchwood to air on the FOX network

http://www.thrfeed.com/2010/01/fox-readying-us-version-of-torchwood-.html

Eeeeeee! If anyone hasn't seen it yet, there's hot hot hot pics from the Torchwood convention of John and Gareth snogging a few times!








And so many more pics here!!

http://smirnoffmule.livejournal.com/52435.html?style=mine


All of this really makes me want to visit the next Torchwood convention! And I hope they film a hot Janto sex scene next year :D

John Barrowman interview http://www.dwscifi.com/articles/show/561


You got to kiss him, though. Do you get to kiss David in the new series?

Well, if I told you that I would be breaking protocol wouldn't I? Russell would probably slap my wrist – or my ass!

Hee, that makes me think of Ianto saying "That's sexual harassment, Sir" *giggles* And Jack sooo has to kiss the Doctor again, I mean he's been so desperate devoted that he even keeps the hand...


And sqeeeee!

You find out a huge amount about him, including a huge secret that you could never ever possibly imagine. When you discover what it is, your jaw will actually hit the floor! I jumped around the room when I read the script. Then I ran into David's trailer screaming, "Oh my God!"

I noticed some irritation in a Torchwood comm when the episode was called They Keep Killing Suzie, but people pointed out they can't do much about the title of the episode itself being spoilery.

Do people think that titles themselves should be spoiler cut if they are spoilery enough to reveal that a certain character is coming back?


I never saw that episode in the end because I tuned in wednesday at 10pm, and it was on at 9pm :/