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Jerusalem posted:This story was quite difficult to listen to[...] Doctor What posted:I can't help but feel this would have been better served as a 6th Doctor story. His personality and Colin Baker's voice is much better suited for this sort of episode. Toxxupation posted:Big Finish's Torchwood Linear Zoetrope fucked around with this message at 00:12 on May 4, 2015 |
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Davros1 posted:Big Finish is doing Torchwood. I wonder if Gwen and Rhys will be in it, or if they'll just have Jack with an all new team? If they have any sense, they will pretend Rex Matheson doesn't exist.
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Just beautiful, Jsor! Forgot one thing though... X X X X X Next up - When a horde of frogs descends on a small Welsh village, the sheriff has no choice but to call upon an expert with whom she shares a horrible past... Burn Gorman is Owen Harper in...Torchwood: Reign of the Amphibs. CobiWann fucked around with this message at 23:58 on May 3, 2015 |
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Angela Christine posted:Yeah, they got way too excited that they could set a Doctor Who spin off in a world where sex exists. They really didn't seem to have any idea of what to do with that. It was doubly disappointing because it's not like Russell T Davies wanted for experience doing adult drama before Torchwood.
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CobiWann posted:Just beautiful, Jsor! Forgot one thing though... It's there now!
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I've just got up to Love & Monsters in the Oxx/Occ thread. It's beautiful. 
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Wheat Loaf posted:It was doubly disappointing because it's not like Russell T Davies wanted for experience doing adult drama before Torchwood. Someone accurately described it as being so excited about being adult it forgot to be grown up.
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SiKboy posted:Someone accurately described it as being so excited about being adult it forgot to be grown up. On the other hand, someone once said "There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes." However, TW may have taken it a tad far...
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Box of Bunnies posted:Torchwood is more bad than good but I'm interested in what Big Finish can do with it. Always down for more BARROWMAN! Same. I only saw a few episodes of Torchwood the series and was unimpressed. Couldn't finish Miracle Day. But CoE was great, and I'll give anything Barrowman does a shot. He loves the character, he loves Doctor Who, and I know he'll absolutely kill it in audio. It's one more person, along with Arthur Darvill and Tennant, that would be an absolute lock for Nu-Who audios (and of course Capaldi, but that goes without saying). When we can finally get that unrealized promise of the 9/Rose/Jack team in a multi-season arc, it's gonna own. One day Eccleston will be spoken of in the same breath as McGann and C Bakes as a great audio Doctor with too short a time on tv, mark my words. I bet this will also give us a chance to finally get an origin story for Captain Jack, and find out the mystery of his missing time before he met the Doctor. Plus other Time Agent in the Future stories. I also want to see an all Male Action Punching sausage fest companion crossover starring William Russell, Peter Purves, and Barrowman.
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Astroman posted:I also want to see an all Male Action Punching sausage fest companion crossover starring William Russell, Peter Purves, and Barrowman. You disappoint me. 
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CobiWann posted:Just beautiful, Jsor! Forgot one thing though... 
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Gaz-L posted:I'm fairly sure they're holding back the rest of the episodes until 2016 because they don't know who from the cast they can get except Barrowman. Hell, that means they may not even know WHEN the audios will be set. Suzie!
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RunAndGun posted:On the other hand, someone once said "There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes." However, TW may have taken it a tad far... Terry Gilliam once said of Time Bandits that he'd tried to make a film that was fun enough for grown-ups, but smart enough for kids. Torchwood seemed to try, and fail, to take the opposite approach. That said, I do think that Bilis Manger was one of the creepiest villains I've seen in TV and was a better antagonist than the show deserved.
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I seem to remember the beeb doing some torchwood audios a little while back that were a lot better than I was expecting. Does anyone know if big finish had a hand in those?
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Fil5000 posted:I seem to remember the beeb doing some torchwood audios a little while back that were a lot better than I was expecting. Does anyone know if big finish had a hand in those? I remember them going out on BBC Radio 4 making me think they were legit BBC Radio productions. Also, while they would definitely ask Eccleston first, he would almost certainly decline. In which case would getting Stephen Beckett to do his Richard III voice be such a horrible thing? The_Doctor fucked around with this message at 10:03 on May 4, 2015 |
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Man, I just saw the second Thor movie and it made me appreciate his Doctor even more. Holy poo poo did they waste him in that film. He wasn't even bad, he was just given nothing other than some made up fantasy gibberish language and scowling.
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Jsor posted:Man, I just saw the second Thor movie and it made me appreciate his Doctor even more. Holy poo poo did they waste him in that film. He wasn't even bad, he was just given nothing other than some made up fantasy gibberish language and scowling. He's done plenty of poo poo. The villain in Gone In 60 Seconds being particularly egregious.
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The jokes have already made the Torchwood adaptation a good thing, even if it doesn't sell a single copy.
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I'll buy it, in hopes that it leads to a McGann/Barrowman team up at some point.
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Oh yeah. May the Fourth be with you or something.
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One Swell Foop posted:Terry Gilliam once said of Time Bandits that he'd tried to make a film that was fun enough for grown-ups, but smart enough for kids. Torchwood seemed to try, and fail, to take the opposite approach. Yeah, first season was a bit of a bomb. They got better later, and of course, Children of Earth!
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My wife has expressed interest in the Torchwood audios. Which means I will have to review them. gently caress. gently caress! FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!
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The audios might be a lot better than the show and take advantage of whatever potential was there.
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CobiWann posted:My wife has expressed interest in the Torchwood audios. The Tenth Doctor's cliffhangers would've been a lot different if that was what he yelled.
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CobiWann posted:My wife has expressed interest in the Torchwood audios. Again, the BBC ones weren't bad. They all occur post Owen and Toshiko leaving but pre Ianto leaving. I didn't listen to the original one (which I can see was a Lidster penned one) but the other ones were fine.
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I remember Golden Age and Dead Line being pretty good. The latter being a bit Sapphire & Steel, in a good way.
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CobiWann posted:My wife has expressed interest in the Torchwood audios. 
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The_Doctor posted:I remember Golden Age and Dead Line being pretty good. The latter being a bit Sapphire & Steel, in a good way. I liked Dead Line - it was what I'd envisaged Torchwood as being when it was first announced... which is to say a Welsh X-Files.
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CobiWann posted:My wife has expressed interest in the Torchwood audios. You should probably do all the tv episodes as well, for backgrounds sake.
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BSam posted:You should probably do all the tv episodes as well, for backgrounds sake. May you find yourself forced to LARP the "gas leak" season of Community and it awakes something dark inside of you.
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I feel like when I actually watch Torchwood, the "Torchwood is the worst thing in the Universe, worse than getting your toes stomped on while you watch Star Trek: Voyager" stuff is going to over-prepare me to the point where I say "I don't know. The dog in this show isn't really that shaggy."
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You'd be surprised. I thought that too but they really are right. It's astonishing how bad Torchwood is, to the point where it's difficult even to enjoy ironically because it's just that drearily, determinedly sub-par.
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Bicyclops posted:I feel like when I actually watch Torchwood, the "Torchwood is the worst thing in the Universe, worse than getting your toes stomped on while you watch Star Trek: Voyager" stuff is going to over-prepare me to the point where I say "I don't know. The dog in this show isn't really that shaggy." One of the main characters attempts to rape a woman using drugs in the first episode during his free time and this isn't ever really brought up and he just happily continues along as a member of the team.
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Bicyclops posted:I feel like when I actually watch Torchwood, the "Torchwood is the worst thing in the Universe, worse than getting your toes stomped on while you watch Star Trek: Voyager" stuff is going to over-prepare me to the point where I say "I don't know. The dog in this show isn't really that shaggy." It's really not as bad as people say, with the odd moment or episode that just really is as bad as people say. Cyberwoman being the most prominent. Although with the exception of the brilliant Children of Earth season, the show still isn't quite as good as the Sarah Jane Adventures was. While I'm at it, the Australian kids K9 series is pretty poo poo.
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CobiWann posted:My wife has expressed interest in the Torchwood audios. Well, at least you won't get the urge to gouge your eyes out. Ears... is another story. But the eyes are safe!
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