Gwenwood

[a_silver_story]

Well ... 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!

Comments

[tayla36.livejournal.com]

Maybe Jack will only be in a couple episodes just to get the series started. Then he'll go back to Doctor Who. WOuldn't that be great? Then we could all ignore Gwenwood and just watch Doctor Who.

[zsazsa4168.livejournal.com]

Actually, this is making me feel real good about my promise not to watch a minute of this tripe.

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.

[junoharkness.livejournal.com]

This is really sad. their using season 3 promo pics for season 4? really sad

im going to stop there or im going to go on a rant again

[xrai-namere.livejournal.com]

Yes, don't read the interview. I'm ranting now.
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.

[dr-is-in.livejournal.com]

ITS NOT AN OFFICIAL PROMO OF THE NEW SERIES.

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.

[zazajb.livejournal.com]

Ooh - not liking the look at all...next thing we know it'll be called Excalibur...*shudders* Guess all we can do is hope... *bites lip anxiously*

Agree re Animals @ work :D xxx

[welsh-scotsman.livejournal.com]

however, if it is genuine, then it kind of sucks. i mean, they've got gwen in front and jack at the back looking small as you say which again suggests gwen is the most important figure and jack's just kind of...there. if it were a genuine s4 pic, they should've done something like gwen and jack back to back to show that they're equal:P still, im staying well away from all series 4 talk/ articles/lies./ whatever, afterall, owen, tosh and ianto are still alive *skips back to denilasville*

[sbs-01.livejournal.com]

Well if you remember all the promotional material for CoE had Gwen in the center front where as in Series 1 and 2, Jack was front and center. I had a feeling then and there that Gwen would be the dominate character in CoE of the original cast and it was so.

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.

[sweet-minion.livejournal.com]

we all knew that was going to happen right? bah.

The Subject Matter Is Now Alpacas

[magicmalcolm.livejournal.com]

Alpacas are bloody strange looking creatures. Is it a llama? A camel? A camellama? Intelligent buggers, mind.

For some reason though, I've blanked out the rest of your post there. How bizarre.

[erikssiren.livejournal.com]

Even if it's not official, anyone else notice how the buildings are glowing brighter behind Gwen to give her an even more angelical/heroic look? Ugh.

[i-own-ianto.livejournal.com]

Ok I had no issues with Gwen, I actually quite liked her, but now i loathe her simply because RTD can't stop shoving her down our throats.
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?

[(Anonymous)]

Look closer, that's not the Barrowman, thank the deities!

[squirrelytonks.livejournal.com]

uggggh... not sure but really really hoping...

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...

[breannarose1.livejournal.com]

my reaction? WTF!!
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? :)

[jacksgirleen.livejournal.com]

Oh I loved Jac oin Dr Who, any chance Moffat would get Ianto back.... *goes off in a lovely haze...*

[rosy5000.livejournal.com]

Wheter this is an official promo pic or not, just it being used in an interview with RTD links it to TW enough. :P All the Gwen love just irritates the hell out of me.

[kausingkayn.livejournal.com]

Ugh.
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.

[blucougar.livejournal.com]

The picture might not be a genuine promo, but every interview RTD has given since the end of Children of Earth suggests all too strongly that what the suggestion of “Gwenwood” is not all that inaccurate. Both RTD and Eve Myles have been recorded in interviews as saying things that suggest Torchwood is going to revolve primarily around Gwen, and that Jack will be there as (pardon the expression) eye candy to try and hold on to loyal viewers.

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?

[woani21.livejournal.com]

This is just God awful. Even if this is technically only a reformatting of promotional photography, it is reformatting done by a professional, presumably viable and truthful, source, which very well may have altered the photos in line with what information the interviewer gleaned from RTD. This whole show is just so over that I'm amazed that there is still any sort of a fandom, even if the fandom that is left is the most divided and disappointed that even experienced fandomers have ever seen.

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.