The New Torchwood Book Covers ...

[a_silver_story]

Okay, so The Undertaker's Gift, Consequences and Risk Assessment are all due for release in the UK on the 1st of October, and I just went over to play.com to see if they'd released the cover images yet. Lo and behold! - what a kick in the teeth!














Ianto doesn't even get his own cover this time around! Why does this annoy me so much? - aside from the fact these books are supposedly Ianto's final outing in the Whoniverse and he doesn't even get his own cover? Talk about kicking a fictional construct when he's down!


_{... and they cropped out his gun ...} THE GUN THAT HE NEVER FREAKIN' HAD!! ... come to think of it ... were any of you watching CoE thinking "Maybe he steals the gun from Johnson's men ... oh they're at an army base. Does he get his machine gun now? Okay the hand gun didn't burst the tank ... maybe he grabs his machine gun to do it ... WTF? He's dying and he didn't even get the big arse gun they've spent the past nine months drumming into us via publicity shots and photographs he's going to lay his hands on?" - anyone else, or just me?

*goes away to reminisce about Bay of the Dead and The Twilight Streets covers ... with a couple of passages from Pack Animals and Almost Perfect for good measure ...*


EDIT: Also ... in the bottom images of two of the books, Gwen is front and centre like she's the main character (something I've noticed on a couple of CoE promos). I thought Torchwood was Jack's series? Hmmmm


EDIT 2: Rile ye'selves! The original covers released in April had a Ianto cover!



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Comments

[woani21.livejournal.com]

When did Owen say that? It sums up so many of my feelings about the character. In a way I feel cheated for having ever watched Torchwood, because I thought that I was supposed to be watching an ensemble cast. In reality I was supposed to be watching a one-man show (or one-woman show) with a set of ancillary characters that were removed when no longer needed for her 'development.'
I'm of the persuasion that John Barrowman's future in Torchwood is uncertain in the eyes of the producers, even if John has stated his desire to continue for as long as possible. That's why RTD was saying "I would think so, I would hope so" in response to the question of Jack's return. He was giving him self leeway and distancing himself from the answer. They may feel that there is inevitably a point when you can't have an actor in his mid-forties playing the role of an immortal. It's crass and disrespectful to John, but we've seen that producers are very often crass and disrespectful to their underlings when they no longer serve as much purpose. Plus, RTD has never made any attempts to conceal his attachment to Gwen as a character and to Eve Myles. In part I've often wondered and have written a post on it at AfterElton whether Gwen is somehow Russell's placement of himself in a female character; that she is the female him. I don't mean that he wants to be a woman, but that he has invested his own personality into her more so than in any other character. Which probably explains why I don't like her much. That's also part of the reason John made idiotic jokes (piece of ass anyone?) and acted so hyper trying to diffuse the situation at panels and signings, because he knows that he's the weakest link now that newspapers and magazines are identifying Eve Myles as the primary star of Torchwood.

[ella-caramella.livejournal.com]

Owen's line is from ep "Random Shoes" S1. Ep that was almost entirely a Gwen episode, as the others barely appear in it, and the less favourite TW episode EVER! I wonder why...

There is some press already stating things like 'Torchwood, starring Eve Myles'... so let's prepare to say bye bye to Capt. Jack soon.

It's no secret that RTD wanted to do a show called "Rose Tyler: Earth Defender" and that the BBC turned that down because not interested. So RTD came up with Torchwood and put Capt. Jack in it to sell the product. Now that Gwen Cooper is an established "wonderwoman" there's no need for other, more interesting, characters. If Torchwood will go on, it will probably be as a mini series format, with the awesome Gwen Cooper and a supporting cast of replaceable redshirts.

If you go back and rewatch all of S1 and S2, Jack was never the main lead. Gwen has always had more screentime than anyone else.

I always wondered why, with a character like Jack, they never took any chance to explore his original timeline as a time agent in the future or even better why they never went into his past. I mean, a man who lived throughout the whole of our most recent history. The only time they did that was in "Fragments" when they showed Jack in the Victorian period and his recruitment by Torchwood. Then it's been 1 flashback (Lahore 1909) and... nothing else!

Talking about wasted potential? Not only they never bothered with Ianto, they never bothered with Jack either.

[a-silver-story.livejournal.com]

Talking about wasted potential? Not only they never bothered with Ianto, they never bothered with Jack either.


... that is actually very, very upsettingly true :(

[a-silver-story.livejournal.com]

I agree with everything you've just said - including the comment about John being a 'weak link' now. He must be worrying - the problem with not aging much in your mid-thirties to mid-forties is that it suddenly creeps up on you so fast that everyone notices. I think RTD made a little leeway for him, though - finding the grey hairs for example.

The main problem is, RTD doesn't seem to realise that Gwen isn't a strong enough character on her own to run the show. She needed the ensemble of Torchwood in able to carry her to the viewer.

The same really goes for Ianto - there isn't enough character there to hold a show on his own, but if Jack had a Ianto he'd never have left. A Jack and Ianto show would have been such a hit! That's what pisses me off! And so much potential! GAWD such a waste of a TV icon!

I'm getting angry about it now. I'll stop there o:-)