Shallow stuff and more predictions...

[tencrush]

Recent realisations:

• I don't watch Merlin because I think all the men are fuck ugly, and yes, I am that shallow. I need something to look at, at least.


• On that note, I have no idea why I watch Survivors, which is depressing and horrid. Though Freema dying right at the beginning cheered me up a bit, I thought she was going to be in all of it. In fact, the fact that she isn't in it may well be the reason I am still watching, just out of sheer surprise. (Having said that, I think I could possibly grow to find Paterson Joseph slightly... hot? I'm certainly not frowning on all the Whovian gossip at the moment.)


• The reason I bitch about John Barrowman so much is because if I see one more soft-focus icon of the guy I am going to hurl my guts up. No man, no matter how gay, should be allowed to have his picture taken in that manner. Stills from that music video count double in this respect. It's like he said "Do me like Maddie in Moonlighting, can we do that? That would be super." Sweet airbrushed baby Jesus.

Random predictions:

• I think we're not hearing who the new Doctor is, unlike back when Eccleston left and we heard within a week, because we will find out in the Christmas episode who the new Doctor is. I'm not saying it's necessarily Morrissey because it more than likely isn't, but I reckon we'll know by the end of the episode. They're certainly not going to tell us between now and Christmas.


• Torchwood filming has apparently wrapped, with no outside action having taken place for about 6 weeks. We've seen a lot of setup being filmed outside, but not a whole lot in the way of denouement: explosion in the Hub, kids chanting and being taken by the military, lots of people running around and getting terribly upset about all sorts of things. Nobody seems to have spotted any sort of epic battle or endgame or indeed anything that even hints vaguely as to How The Story Ends, just a lot of setup for How The Story Starts. Given the fact that there's been 6 weeks of indoor filming, this would lead me to conclude that A)the ending is a cgi-tastic nightmare of Abbaddonesque proportions, or B)the 5 parter isn't quite about what we all think it's about, and all the stuff we've seen is actually only one of two storylines that plays out. Thinking about it, I'm finding that one increasingly likely. Don't know why. Mostly because I still have this inkling that there's Something They're Not Telling Us.

Comments

[tigercheetah.livejournal.com]

If Owen and Tosh come back - or even Suzie - I'm afriad the show will lose all credibility when it comes to Torchwood team members putting their lives on the line. They'd be no sense of danger anymore. If Rhys or Ianto or Gwen got a bullet in the head at some point, no one would care. The only way they'd get away with it, is if series 3 is going to be the last and therefore it wouldn't matter if there's no sense of drama anymore. I seriously doubt that RTD wants Torchwood to lose credibility, even if he screws up when it comes to other matters, cough*gwen*cough.

I do think that something is going to change forever for either Jack, Gwen or Ianto though. If not the main cast, then Torchwood itself as an organisation.

[tigercheetah.livejournal.com]

Actually more hints are being given about the government playing a big role in the next series, so I think they will have a role to play in how the series ends. Apparently Jack utters a line in episode 1 about the government being on his back about something and we know that Jack and Ianto spend some time in episode 4 wondering around London and the Welsh Assembley.

[dr-is-in.livejournal.com]

Your opinion, and your welcome to it, but I don't agree with it. Characters returning has become a recurrent theme within the show....second chances and such, you could say.