In which I am always right.

[tencrush]

See?

Russell also quashed rumours that a fourth series of Torchwood had been greenlit: “There is nothing definite yet despite what John Barrowman keeps telling everyone. Get down, boy! But we wouldn’t want him any other way. Maybe there'll be something to tell you in the New Year.”

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LOL, Russell, you're the one that keeps pimping this fuck awful idea out every time you open your mouth. Maybe the Beeb told you to tone it down a bit?

Guys: THERE IS NO S4 OF TORCHWOOD.

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[caledonius72.livejournal.com]

Until I see an actual bona fide BBC press release, JB and RTD and Uncle Tom Cobbeley and all can tell me there's a S4 and I won't believe it.

Will there be an S4? Dunno. The ratings were good in the UK, but what about in the US and other countries, cos that's where they make the money. And if there is one, they won't start filming until later on in 2010, so we won't see it until late 2010 at the very very earliest, so at least 18 month between broadcast of S3 and S4. Don't strike while the iron is hot BBC. Just rely on the fandom waiting with bated breath. For S3 they finished filming in August 2008 and we didn't see it until July 2009 (nearly a year after they'd finished).

[bk_forever]

Yeah, and loyal fans waited patiently all that time between series 2 & 3, kept going by hints about how happy we would be, but what we got in the end was (to many of us) at best a huge disappointment and at worst a travesty. I lean towards travesty myself. The whole plot was ludicrous.

[caledonius72.livejournal.com]

Hell yes - the hints and press about how happy we would be were lies. All 3 characters from TW were not served well by the plot, and none of what happened could be seen as being "happy" making.

I feel that if you took the TW/SciFi element out of CoE it worked quite well as a conspiracy drama - it certainly provoked some questions to me about the nature of government. But it wasn't TW as I expected it to be, I can understand trying to take it into a new direction with the move to BBC1, but it felt like two different genres/programmes smooshed together. Neither fish nor fowl. Political drama or science fiction?

It had high production values (special effects, etc), and even though we may not have agreed with how the script panned out, or some of the dialogue, the cast acted their little hearts out with what they were given.

[bk_forever]

For the most part, the acting was excellent, but the Torchwood cast didn't really seem to fit. Half the time it seemed they were being forced into roles created for other characters. They didn't behave like the characters I was used to. I remember reading someone else saying somewhere that in the first 2 series of Torchwood, it was easy to overlook plotholes because it didn't feel like it was meant to be real (I'm paraphrasing because I don't remember exactly) but with CoE, we're told they're striving for realism and honestly, I couldn't find anything realistic about it and the plot holes... well, as far as I could see, there was more hole than plot, and what plot there was didn't seem to make much sense. I'm not really a fan of political drama, so much of that left me cold and there wasn't enough of Torchwood to make up for all the other shortcomings.