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Jan. 19th, 2010 10:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tencrushI say I don't want to talk about that show ever again and then they announce FOXWOOD.
I only have one thing to say about that:
AH HAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
OH.
Oh God. GOD OH... oh.
Ow, my sides. Oh.
Nah, I've got nothing else. Feel free to talk amongst yourselves, though.
I only have one thing to say about that:
AH HAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
OH.
Oh God. GOD OH... oh.
Ow, my sides. Oh.
Nah, I've got nothing else. Feel free to talk amongst yourselves, though.
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Date: 2010-01-19 09:13 pm (UTC)Yeah, I'm just going to be ROTFLMAO (with you and a good-sized crowd, I'm sure) until I see news of scheduled filming.
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Date: 2010-01-19 09:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-19 09:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-19 09:29 pm (UTC)As I said in
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Date: 2010-01-19 09:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-19 10:11 pm (UTC)There is also this one: http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2010/jan/19/will-us-torchwood-work
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Date: 2010-01-19 11:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-20 08:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-19 09:48 pm (UTC)I think you need a corset, as your sides must need the support since you've split them.
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Date: 2010-01-19 09:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-19 10:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-19 10:55 pm (UTC)That gave me a good laugh too. Fox + RTD = wank of EPIC levels.
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Date: 2010-01-19 11:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-20 06:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-20 12:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-20 01:36 am (UTC)(Seriously, in what universe does it make sense to build up a property in one country and then take it to a completely different one? And under the financial wing of a company that lost a boatload of money the last time they dealt with the parent property?)
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Date: 2010-01-20 02:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-20 03:05 am (UTC)Tellingly, RTD did not write the US version...
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Date: 2010-01-20 04:23 am (UTC)and the only reason i think it worked is b/c after the 1st couple episodes it totally branched off into its own storyline
BUT! it was on SHOWTIME not FOX and it was a SOAP OPERA (which RTD is pretty good at writing) and not sci-fi (which he is NOT good at writing)
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Date: 2010-01-20 04:37 am (UTC)It's not that FOX is bad at sci-fi, it's that TW had themes I doubt FOX has the balls to run with. And what's left, Foxwood, is Just Another Monsters on Earth show (maybe with token fanservice lesbians). And, okay. We've been there, done that. A lot. Sans the Whoniverse links, swearing and male homoerotica, TW just wasn't all that great a sci-fi show. *shrugs*
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Date: 2010-01-20 05:12 am (UTC)Sans the Whoniverse links, swearing and male homoerotica, TW just wasn't all that great a sci-fi show - trufax, and yet those are the aspects that drew many ppl to the show in the 1st place
also, FOX blows - honestly the amount of times it has screwed over genuinely good shows (firefly, wonderfalls) it's a wonder anyone is willing to deal with fox at all (especially whedon, with dollhouse, you'd think he'd be wary)
the things is, i don't see a show like torchwood (the way it was, ridiculously gay and all) to be a good match for fox - they'll either change everything (i do not see a character like JACK on fox) and it will be a totally different show or it will get cancelled within 2 episodes
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Date: 2010-01-20 10:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-20 10:24 am (UTC)imdb is notorious for having its 'facts' wrong, but yeah, also i'm sure i read it in an article or something somewhere
but whatevs
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Date: 2010-01-21 05:57 am (UTC)I know this is Wikipedia, but you'd think that he'd get a mention if he wrote that many episodes. Especially given the cult following this shows has.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Queer_as_Folk_episodes
Notice that on RTD's IMDB page he's listed as the creator not writer. That's considered a writing credit, even if he didn't write a word.
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Date: 2010-01-21 01:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-20 04:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-20 09:08 am (UTC)Me, I have a much more optimistic take on it. This is the BBC's way of distracting RTD and keeping him busy in the U.S., while they commission their own British version of season 4. It will be directed by Euros Lynn, and the very first episode will deal with how CoE was a baby aftershock of LotTL and becomes the Week-That-Never-Was, and the Team - all the Team - pick up from where they left off at Journey's End, or the Dead Line, take your pick.
Perhaps the newly commissioned' pre-CoE radio plays will set this ball rolling.
See. My version. Much Much Happiness in the Making.
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Date: 2010-01-20 04:52 pm (UTC)This! I find it pretty funny that RTD want to America to do 'original' projects and his first project isn't original at all.
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Date: 2010-01-21 12:16 am (UTC)Now of course, I'm wondering if it meant that they'd discussed the American project with Barrowman and have him signed up for it already.
Then I got to thinking. What if the American one is based around Jack . . . and the British one (if they still do one) is based around Gwen. They both get to lead their own branches, bask in their own glory . . . it's got definite possibilities (or should I just go back to my corner and keep drinking the wine?)
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Date: 2010-01-21 05:11 pm (UTC)'What if the American one is based around Jack . . . and the British one (if they still do one) is based around Gwen. They both get to lead their own branches, bask in their own glory . . . it's got definite possibilities (or should I just go back to my corner and keep drinking the wine?)'
Oh I do like that idea.
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Date: 2010-01-20 10:20 am (UTC)As others have brought up, there are already better shows handling these story lines over here. Fringe, Flashforward, and Warehouse 13 are the big three. I'm wondering if Fringe will get another season, so this may be it's replacement, but it won't cut it. Plus, RTD doesn't have a big enough world view to make a US show work. Flashforward got a lot of crap early on, and it wasn't doing a half bad job. No way US Torchwood takes off anywhere but cable.
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Date: 2010-01-20 05:23 pm (UTC)I completely agree. The only way I can see Torchwood: America working at all, is if the writing is A LOT better- especially
if it's replacing Fringe.
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Date: 2010-01-20 11:29 am (UTC)no subject
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