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a_silver_storyWell ... a 'promotional image' of TW has surfaced, over on SFX (I haven't read the interview because it's with RTD, and I'll probably just get angry).
So ... erm ... yeah?
WHUT DA FECK?
Composition with only two subjects has to be of the same 'status', otherwise the picture leans. See how the skyscrapers they tried to balance it out with LEAN because the right side of the image is taken up by SMALL Jack since there isn't enough room for him next to DOMINANT Gwen. Maybe the skyscraper will fall on him and bury him for a billion years so that he can't interfere with Gwenwood.
Why did I promise myself I'd watch the first few episodes of this? I hope to GOD some kind of MIRACLE happens and something DECENT is produced, because I won't be able to get those hours of my life back.
EDIT: At least I got my new series of 'Animals at Work', and I have to say there's far more interesting drama in chicken-guarding alpacas than in RTD's left horn!
So ... erm ... yeah?
WHUT DA FECK?
Composition with only two subjects has to be of the same 'status', otherwise the picture leans. See how the skyscrapers they tried to balance it out with LEAN because the right side of the image is taken up by SMALL Jack since there isn't enough room for him next to DOMINANT Gwen. Maybe the skyscraper will fall on him and bury him for a billion years so that he can't interfere with Gwenwood.
Why did I promise myself I'd watch the first few episodes of this? I hope to GOD some kind of MIRACLE happens and something DECENT is produced, because I won't be able to get those hours of my life back.
EDIT: At least I got my new series of 'Animals at Work', and I have to say there's far more interesting drama in chicken-guarding alpacas than in RTD's left horn!
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Date: 2010-07-24 01:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-24 01:11 pm (UTC)God, I hope so.
Moffat said he'd love to have Jack back?
Date: 2010-07-24 07:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-24 01:17 pm (UTC)Add this to the news that RTD continues to worship at the altar of "Calling it 'Dark' Frees Me to be Arbitrary and Capricious in Plotting," and its a no brainer for me.
If there's an audience out there for this, I wish them all many happy years together. Clearly, the Torchwood I fell in love with is not coming back.
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Date: 2010-07-24 01:28 pm (UTC)im going to stop there or im going to go on a rant again
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Date: 2010-07-24 01:35 pm (UTC)Yes, I know I'm being a hysterical fangirl. No, I don't give a flying fuck.
I'm going to watch Season One And Two now and cry.
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Date: 2010-07-24 01:36 pm (UTC)Its a photoshop SFX did for the cover from previous season promo shots. Everyone is getting themselves all worked up over this and it means nothing.
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Date: 2010-07-24 01:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-24 01:58 pm (UTC)Argh, The Hair!
Date: 2010-07-24 04:42 pm (UTC)...that kinds of horror ingrates itself into one's very psyche.
Not official?
Date: 2010-07-24 07:31 pm (UTC)Seriously, I heard that there a picture like this in the Torchwood Magazine too, so even if it's not a new shoot it seems pretty official. I might be missing something though - would it have to be a new shoot to be considered official?
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Date: 2010-07-24 07:52 pm (UTC)thanks for that! hated thinking it was real. :D
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Date: 2010-07-25 02:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-24 01:52 pm (UTC)Agree re Animals @ work :D xxx
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Date: 2010-07-24 01:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-24 03:45 pm (UTC)If Gwen and Jack were to be equal characters in this S4, they should have been at least side by side. But with Gwen photo shopped to the front, I know where RTD's main emphasis will lie.
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Date: 2010-07-24 03:45 pm (UTC)The Subject Matter Is Now Alpacas
Date: 2010-07-24 04:39 pm (UTC)For some reason though, I've blanked out the rest of your post there. How bizarre.
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Date: 2010-07-24 05:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-24 05:23 pm (UTC)Nah, that's probably just the sun shining out of her arse.
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Date: 2010-07-25 04:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-24 06:30 pm (UTC)I mean, when will the man learn? We get it, please leave it alone now.
Poor Jack, isn't Torchwood supposed to be his show?
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Date: 2010-07-24 06:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-24 07:45 pm (UTC)i don't want to think it's official just because it's using CoE promos but whoever did this has the same fecking gwen-love that RTD has... makes me want to vomit really...
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Date: 2010-07-24 07:50 pm (UTC)end quote.
I would no thave minded if Gwen wore 'futuristic' clothes or looked years older but this?!?
Jack's back...in a supportive role?!? oh yeah.
Like your title of "Gwenwood". May I swipe it,please? :)
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Date: 2010-07-24 09:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-24 11:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-25 04:42 am (UTC)I need Barrowman. hopefully he'll come back to Doctor Who. I've already decided that there has only been two seasons of Torchwood. Then it was canceled. Cause the alternate option isn't good.
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Date: 2010-07-25 11:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-26 01:58 am (UTC)It can be argued that the picture is just a magazine mock-up, but I’m tipping that it’s a perfect pictorial representation of how RTD views the new Torchwood.
Seriously, why doesn’t he just declare Torchwood dead and buried, and rename it Excalibur? After all, isn’t that what he’s wanted all along?
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Date: 2010-07-27 07:05 pm (UTC)Personally, I feel that Torchwood is merely a name being used by RTD to ensure that he could make his attempt at success in the States. Any relationship to Doctor Who, Wales, or even the past three seasons of Torchwood will be downplayed as much as possible, as will the sci-fi basis for the program. If this weren't the case, then why would there be CIA agents in the main cast, when in the Who-dom it was always Unit that took over in alien-related cases. The answer is simple: There will be no reference to Unit or anything that have ever done. We'll probably get some ridiculous, even by the standards of sci-fi, explanation for why CIA agents involved in an inexplicable investigation must turn to the sole living agent of a defunct British organization they are told should be brought in on the case. Cue Super!Gwen! And to be perfectly blunt, has anyone started taking bets on whether she'll end up between the sheets with the proposed Owen 2.0? Since Rhys probably won't be able to understand her challenging new job fighting aliens, or whatever replaces them in America.
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Date: 2010-07-27 08:01 pm (UTC)You don't think she'll end up with Jack? I'm still thinking Rhys will be killed. I had expected it to happen off-screen, between CoE and S4, but now, given the whole "dark" thing, I'm thinking Rhys'll be horribly and graphically killed by aliens.
Jack will come back to earth when he hears about Rhys's untimely demise, to help Gwen. They'll be united by their shared pain... (gagging yet?) Because Jack's so broken, and she's Super!Gwen, she'll be both Torchwood's leader and Jack's healer. You know, like Rose healed Nine. (Wouldn't want to have to think up a whole new character development sequence now, would we?)
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Date: 2010-07-28 01:26 am (UTC)I think it is possible for Gwen to also pursue an affair while Rhys is stuck at home taking care of the baby (if either of them is actually featured in the series)or dead, basically because I fully expect for us to be promised a reboot, and then see the series redo much of what we saw in season 1 to "re-establish" the characters, only mixed in with the CIA and influential pedophile criminals/stars. I would say "brilliant stuff," but I've never managed to translate sarcastic intonations unto the Internet, so I won't do it.
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Date: 2010-07-28 01:39 am (UTC)Then again, if she had an affair she would no longer be the icon of family values and heterosexuality that she was in CoE. Who would bring light into Torchwood's darkness then? (I can't help it, the subject tweeks my sarcastic bone; even if sarcasm doesn't translate well into the Internet, S4 news like this compels me to try. Sorry!)
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Date: 2010-07-28 01:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-28 09:14 am (UTC)This makes me laugh and vomit at the same time.
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Date: 2010-07-28 04:28 pm (UTC)WTF, the affair with Owen was apparently justifiable for Saint Gwen because Rhys wasn't good in bed... as lame excuses go, I suppose needing to run free isn't any worse.
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Date: 2010-07-28 10:16 pm (UTC)WTF? Are people actually citing that as an excuse? Seriously?
IMO, Gwen shagged Owen because she could. All her 'needing somebody to talk to' was just so much bullshit to salve her own conscience. If she hadn't joined Torchwood, she would have probably ended up shagging Andy the first time she'd had a 'bad day'.
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Date: 2010-07-28 11:27 pm (UTC)I agree about "needing someone to talk to." I know people who work under non-disclosure agreements and they don't fuck their co-workers and drug their partners...
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Date: 2010-07-29 01:27 am (UTC)Has anyone else seen the new SFX interview where RTD says that Torchwood is in fact over, but that the name is being kept for the reboot on Starz? At least it has been admitted now.
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Date: 2010-07-29 03:21 am (UTC)And yes, you're right. No use arguing why any of the characters do anything. They have characters do all kinds of stupid things with little or no justification (going into a room with a tank full of poisonous gas, and trying to shoot it open without wearing protective gear comes to mind). Whatever they say, real answer seems to be, "Because we felt like it."
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Date: 2010-07-29 02:55 pm (UTC)