BS: Any other Torchwood fans out there

Subject: BS: Any other Torchwood fans out there
From: olddude
Date: 09 Feb 11 - 03:42 PM

I love the show, there, I said it !!

Subject: RE: BS: Any other Torchwood fans out there
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 09 Feb 11 - 04:50 PM

Recently we've had (on Welsh television) Burn Gorman as a clergymen in 'Lark Rise to Candleford' followed by Eve Miles in 'The Baker Boys'. Just waiting for the next series.

Subject: RE: BS: Any other Torchwood fans out there
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 09 Feb 11 - 05:13 PM

I liked it when it was first on.

Subject: RE: BS: Any other Torchwood fans out there
From: Crane Driver
Date: 09 Feb 11 - 05:15 PM

They were recently filming for the next series on the beach near us. Look out for a scene where a jeepful of stunt doubles is chased along a beach by a black helicopter. No aliens that we saw. Not even Thespians.

Andrew

Subject: RE: BS: Any other Torchwood fans out there
From: J-boy
Date: 10 Feb 11 - 12:24 AM

Tami devoured the show via netflix. Haven't seen it yet myself but I've heard good things.

Subject: RE: BS: Any other Torchwood fans out there
From: J-boy
Date: 10 Feb 11 - 12:30 AM

Have you watched Firefly yet, olddude? I hate to sound like a rabid fanboy but it is THE BEST sci-fi show. Ever.

Subject: RE: BS: Any other Torchwood fans out there
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 10 Feb 11 - 04:16 AM

I enjoyed the early stuff (the naff sex notwithstanding) but the week-long five parter undid the good work so far. Give me The Sarah Jane Adventures everytime, surely the jewel in the revised Dr Who franchise.

Subject: RE: BS: Any other Torchwood fans out there
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 10 Feb 11 - 04:49 AM

Watched it,
Loved it,
Got the t-Shirt and a full set of the collectable game cards (and lots of unopened packets!)
Also got a good look at the Torchwood car when they had it on display at the National Eisteddfod in Cardiff in 2008

Cheers
nigel

Subject: RE: BS: Any other Torchwood fans out there
From: olddude
Date: 10 Feb 11 - 01:42 PM

Love firefly also I do

Subject: RE: BS: Any other Torchwood fans out there
From: olddude
Date: 10 Feb 11 - 01:43 PM

Awww the Torchwood car, I wish I could have seen it

Subject: RE: BS: Any other Torchwood fans out there
From: GUEST,Sean R-B
Date: 10 Feb 11 - 02:01 PM

Loved TORCHWOOD and watched all the episodes on DVD from Netflix. Now folks are recommending FIREFLY, so I guess I'll have to see that too. Also enjoying FRINGE as my current science fiction fix.

Subject: RE: BS: Any other Torchwood fans out there
From: Amergin
Date: 10 Feb 11 - 02:30 PM

If you want low budget weirdness check out Lexx.

Subject: RE: BS: Any other Torchwood fans out there
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 10 Feb 11 - 05:00 PM

Lexx was a hoot. I watched it religiously when it came out but forgot all about it. Did anyone catch that sci-fi sit-com with Miranda Hart a few years back? Top stuff, but the name escapes me...

Subject: RE: BS: Any other Torchwood fans out there
From: Amergin
Date: 10 Feb 11 - 05:10 PM

Hyperdrive! It also stars Nick Frost...funny show.

Subject: RE: BS: Any other Torchwood fans out there
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 10 Feb 11 - 07:16 PM

LEXX! The only time I've had a letter published in the national press in recent years was to point out that Wayne Rooney named his son after the Dead Man.

Subject: RE: BS: Any other Torchwood fans out there
From: J-boy
Date: 11 Feb 11 - 12:58 AM

Do any of you know where I can find Blakes 7 on dvd in the U.S.? Netflix doesn't have it and I'm anxious to view it having recently learned it was similiar to my beloved Firefly.

Subject: RE: BS: Any other Torchwood fans out there
From: Becca72
Date: 11 Feb 11 - 08:52 AM

I'm currently making my way through Dexter (the greatest show EVER) via Netflix, but Torchwood is in the queue!

Subject: RE: BS: Any other Torchwood fans out there
From: Penny S.
Date: 11 Feb 11 - 12:18 PM

I always felt they lost the plot with Blake's Seven, when they stopped thinking of them as freedom fighters against an evil totalitarian government, and started insinuating that they were terrorists, and finished it with the carnage of the last episode and its circular firing squad - utter contempt of audience, and early in th evening so pretty shocking for young viewers. Mind you, it's not often you see a galactic cruiser made out of airfreshener holders.

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: Any other Torchwood fans out there
From: olddude
Date: 11 Feb 11 - 03:37 PM

How about Primeval anyone watched those ? I like it also

Subject: RE: BS: Any other Torchwood fans out there
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 11 Feb 11 - 04:36 PM

Torchwwod is great. But just put it in context - The whole Doctor Who / Torchwood / Sarah Jane thing came in sync during Tennants tenacy of the Doctor. What a concept - The designers and writer of all the series's ( is that the plural of series?) need applauding!

Firefly was brilliant as well but the concept was nowhere near as complex. If the powers that ne had let it run it's distance it could well have been though.

Cheers

DeG

Subject: RE: BS: Any other Torchwood fans out there
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 11 Feb 11 - 08:52 PM

I thought we'd mentioned 'Primeval' elsewhere (now featuring Dr Bashir from DS9).

Subject: RE: BS: Any other Torchwood fans out there
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 12 Feb 11 - 07:55 PM

'Torchwood' was blessed with two very good actors in the female leads. Apart from Eve Myles, there was Naoko Mori who was unrecognizable as Yoko Ono in 'Naked Lennon'.

Subject: RE: BS: Any other Torchwood fans out there
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 13 Feb 11 - 06:27 PM

Torchwood and all other 'TV Sci Fi' shows are cretinous nonsense for undiscriminating, know-nothing idiots.

They seem to consist of lots of glamorous, 20 - 30 years old running around, shouting gibberish at each other and shooting silly CGI monsters with toy guns.

Torchwood = Eastenders with CGI monsters, gibberish and toy guns.

I'd rather watch Eastenders ... on second thoughts I'd rather kill myself!

Subject: RE: BS: Any other Torchwood fans out there
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 13 Feb 11 - 07:25 PM

There's always one! I suppose they get some sort of perverted pleasure from breaking in on other people's conversations in which they obviously have no interest just to tell them how superior their lack of taste is.

Subject: RE: BS: Any other Torchwood fans out there
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Feb 11 - 04:22 AM

"There's always one! I suppose they get some sort of perverted pleasure from breaking in on other people's conversations in which they obviously have no interest just to tell them how superior their lack of taste is."

Yeah, partly, I suppose. But I'm always pissed off at the way that the SF genre, which was once original and innovative, has been appropriated by know-nothing idiots who present their cretinous creations, on TV and on film, as the 'real thing' - when they are, in fact, ludicrous, perverted travesties! I feel no shame whatsoever about pointing that out!

Subject: RE: BS: Any other Torchwood fans out there
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 14 Feb 11 - 04:34 AM

A bit like pointing out that practically everything in the Liverpool Team Shop is red, or that Green Bat fans only wear yellow cheeses on their heads.

Subject: RE: BS: Any other Torchwood fans out there
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 14 Feb 11 - 05:11 AM

Sorry, the 'Guest' post above was from me.

I do not understand your last point, Mr MacKenzie.

Subject: RE: BS: Any other Torchwood fans out there
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 14 Feb 11 - 05:38 AM

I know.

Subject: RE: BS: Any other Torchwood fans out there
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 14 Feb 11 - 05:53 AM

Sorry I have to let the girls down on this one, Sara Jane seems to be a bit Nancy Drew to me. It wouldn't surprise me that the reason that this program came about was because they knew that once again a female would not be picked to be the (new) Doctor and at the same time keeping the female viewers at bay by trying to be politically correct. I would rather someone be upfront and say that the part would not be effective if done by a woman rather than by cusioning it by making Dr. Who alternatives like Sara Jane that's how it seems to me.

Torchwood is a little bit more of a Doctor who for grown ups. I think it was in Doctor Who (or the other way round) that they passed one another in the same episode. It would be good if that happened a bit more often, a bit like a sci-fi Holby/Casualty moment. I've often thought that about soaps too but that's another subject.

Subject: RE: BS: Any other Torchwood fans out there
From: jacqui.c
Date: 14 Feb 11 - 07:53 AM

I saw and liked the first two series of Torchwood but then lost BBC America when it went into the higher cost group on cable. I may have to join Netflix to catch up. Sarah Jane didn't quite make it for me and Primeval went the same way as Torchwood, but left me with very little feeling that I would want to find out what happened next.

So far I've only seen two episodes of the new Dr Who - is that also on Netflix, does anyone know?

One of my real favourites was Babylon 5. I've got the whole thing on DVD - Region 2 so can't play it right now on American players, but will be looking to get a little DVD player for Region 2.

Patsy - it was a Doctor Who story that incorporated both Torchwood and Sarah Jane.

Subject: RE: BS: Any other Torchwood fans out there
From: Penny S.
Date: 14 Feb 11 - 02:17 PM

Didn't really like the Captain Jack character, and the difficulties that his immortality introduced. Being buried for 2000 years, constantly dying and being reborn - he'd be nuts.

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: Any other Torchwood fans out there
From: Amergin
Date: 14 Feb 11 - 02:26 PM

Doctor Who is definitely on Netflix....I believe up to the point of Tennant leaving the show.

Subject: RE: BS: Any other Torchwood fans out there
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 14 Feb 11 - 04:21 PM

Captain Jack is a nut.

I suspect that we won't get a female Doctor till all the regenerations are used up, and then who knows. Has River Song anything to do with it?

Subject: RE: BS: Any other Torchwood fans out there
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 15 Feb 11 - 05:02 AM

Interesting thought (Like the "Time traveller's wife") Dr Who & River Song meeting up repeatedly until his next regeneration, when Alex Kingston becomes the next Doctor.
That would also allow for occasional guest appearances by Matt Smith after the regeneration as the meetings that River Song has not yet seen continue!