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MC, CA, UNdead Jester and Love Slave of the UNdead Grave Mother

really having a good time with it. 

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I could zip it out to you guys, as well. 

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And Friend of MuchAdo!

so what would I have to do to receive this. really Mister I would do ANYthing, oh wait a minute I might not do that, and that seem sa little strange, OOOH and hell NO I won't do that...

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MC, CA, UNdead Jester and Love Slave of the UNdead Grave Mother

is the new SciFi (now SyFy)!  It has better SciFi shows, IMHO. 

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MC, CA, UNdead Jester and Love Slave of the UNdead Grave Mother

I already twittered a 140 character version of this, but it seems appropriate for this thread:

I took the family down to Dragon*Con Saturday morning to check out the parade.  My wife, my 4 y/o daughter, and my 6 and 11 y/o sons.  The parade route was pretty crowded, so Anna and Riley ended up on my shoulders for most of the parade.

At one point while we're in the middle of the crowd and 4 year old Anna was on my shoulders, she looks up the street at the oncoming paraders and screams "Look Daddy!!! A Dalek!!!"

Pretty much everyone around us busted out laughing... all but the few that gave me the "Should I call DFACS?" look.

I thought it was hilarious. :-)

There were a bunch of people dressed up as the 10th Doctor too but one of them in particular was uncanny!  He had a girl with him that made a pretty decent Rose :)

New Doctor, new TARDIS, new sonic screwdriver and new companion.

Finally got a chance to see the newest Doctor Who episode and I think I am going to like the new Doctor. I had reservations at first but the writer, Stephen Moffatt, did a brilliant job making the Doctor swagger just as well has he did in previous incarnations. Will desperately miss David Tennant as the 10th Doctor but I am bubbling with anticipation over the 11th *whew*

So I was all excited about the buzz that the creators of Torchwood were looking to bring it over to the US for a reboot.  Looks like their preliminary partnership with Fox has been nixed but not the project itself. Fingers crossed...here's the link to the article: http://bit.ly/cRAQR4p

They kill good sci-fi. I'm sure I don't need to list examples.

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... when I first saw pictures of Matt Smith.  But then I saw his first few seconds in The End of Time and I thought that he's hitting the right attitude and he might be able to carry it off.

Having seen the first two episodes, he still seems a bit rough, but he looks like he's heading in the right direction.  Then again, it took David Tennant about half of his first season to hit stride with the character, so we should all cut Matt the same slack.

Doc

I haven't seen the second episode yet...have my DVR set to record it.  You're definitely right about Tennant taking a bit to really feel like the Doctor, so I am absolutely giving Matt Smith some time to warm up.  I think if the writing continues to be good, he'll just fall into place. And if not, at least his companion is a looker! :)

Redheads For the Win!

Doc

We're catching last season over here and we're almost done with Season 1 (DVD).  Season 2 is in the mail!  Strange watching the last season and catching up on the earlier ones.  But we've seen enough that it's not a bad experience. Can't wait to start seeing the newest one!

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MC; CA; Member of the Wolf Pack; UNdead Jester and Love Slave of the UNdead Grave Mother

I've about given up on their ability to do SciFi right.  They just won't let an audience build.  That said, unless HBO or Showtime runs with it, I fear it'll fail in the US.  There are definitely things in/about Torchwood that just won't pass muster with the US TV mafia.  Here's to wishful thinking though!  

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MC; CA; Member of the Wolf Pack; UNdead Jester and Love Slave of the UNdead Grave Mother

I don't think HBO would work all that well. The premium networks usually want something to offer (eg violence, sex, language) that you can't get on network TV. Torchwood would be a great candidate for something like that.

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Syfy expressed interest via Twitter but only if it were offered to them.  Sounds like Syfy won't go out and pursue it but if Torchwood were to come to them, that they'd talk. judging by how low budget some of the Syfy programming is, I can't see that Torchwood would fit in there, but one can hope!

If you're talking about having Fox or some other American network take over the tales of life, love, and near disaster of Torchwood Three in Cardiff, I'm thinking No.  Just no.   No one on this side of the pond is going to tell the story right.

Now if they're going to take up the hypothetical tale of Torchwood Seven in Chicago, or something like that.... now you might have something that an American network can build on without driving it into the ground.  There is no reason for the Torchwood Institute to have confined itself to just the UK.  Alien flotsam and jetsam appears all over the world.  They would set up chapters wherever they needed to.  Wherever strange things happened just a bit too frequently.  Captain Jack only talked about four Torchwood chapters, but that doesn't mean that there aren't others, and they aren't still out there.  When Torchwood One got taken out, the coordination between chapters would have fallen apart, but I can easily see the remaining chapters continuing to operate.  After all, their mission is to ultimately save the world.  How could they stop?

Just... not Fox.

Doc

I like the idea of Jack being the USA because of another Torchwood branch (other than Cardiff).  I agree whole heartedly that the particularly Welsh touch would be decimated by trying to recreate it here in the US. It would be cool to see two Torchwood offices interacting ... maybe more of a global approach to the story.
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... but now that you mention it, a Torchwood spinoff set in the USA would benefit greatly from Captain Jack Harkness showing up in the pilot episode.  But I would expect it would be more of a case of having him be there long enough to establish the new team's identities and roles and then he'd leave because he "had to get back to his own team".

But I don't know how well a shared or licenced property would work being written and produced by two separate networks.  I think the BBC really has a lot more to do with Torchwood, if only they'd get their act together.

Doc

Can the story arc (dare I say canon) support another Jack Harkness-like being, or would TW-Chicago just have regular folk in it?  Either way I think it'll work if they just take the time and cash to do it right.  This is fun to think about!  

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MC; CA; Member of the Wolf Pack; UNdead Jester and Love Slave of the UNdead Grave Mother