New Torchwood radio plays are being made

[dieastra]

I am so excited it is official! John already told a small group of fans at the stage door but we were asked to keep quiet for the moment. Today it is official, he chose the convention in Pasadena with lots of journalists to reveal that new Torchwood radio plays will be made, with the whole old team! I can't wait to listen to it

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[dieastra]

I think we are in kinda the same situation actually! I also came late to the party, so for me CoE was the first I ever saw. It blew me away, I was very excited about it, and then I went to find online forums to talk about it and everyone hated it for certain reasons. I guess it is indeed a difference if you just watch it as a casual viewer vs. watching as a fan, and having expectations how the characteres should act like.

Did you then go and watch all the previous seasons, and then watch Miracle Day again, and did it change your view on it? Now that you knew the backstory and how it is all connected? And did you probably also go and watch the Doctor Who episodes, where the Jack Harkness character originally comes from? I feel that a lot of the backstory for him created in those episodes, was totally dismissed and rewritten in Miracle Day, and that just does not feel right.

I liked Esther and I also liked Vera and was very upset about her death. And I love Angelo. I have in fact met the actor at a convention and he was so nice to everyone.

Cheers! I hope I did not come over hostile, that really was not my intention. It's always nice to have a good discussion but I have to go to bed now, it's almost 3 AM in Germany.

[chamilet]

No, I came into the fandom, I think, as people were watching and talking about CoE. I think the buzz was hitting my LJ from people who were into what I was into at the time and also Torchwood. So then I started at S1 and went through CoE (so Ianto's death didn't hit me as hard because I knew he was going to die going into S1. Tosh and Owen's deaths were more of a surprise for me). It was a few years before Miracle Day came on the scene. I'd also seen all of the new Who by then.

It was more like a puzzle, trying to make it all fit together with the flashbacks and whatnot.

Esther was my favorite character and I was absolutely floored when I found out she was dead. I liked Vera too, but she was killed about mid way so I hadn't gotten as attached.

I'm in the process of writing an Esther/Ianto fix-it that I hope to maybe finish this year. jedi-harkness was working on it with me.

Not hostile at all:)

[dieastra]

Ah, now I understand what you were trying to say. Trying to catch up with a show with nobody to talk to vs. watching it "live" as it happens and being able to discuss every detail with other fans online. That is indeed a huge difference and can add to the enjoyment. I remember the first time I watched a Doctor Who season "live" in that way instead of just old episodes from DVDs nobody was interested in talking about anymore. I always had to watch the episodes a second time as people mentioned so many details I had not seen. Moffat is good at hiding them.

Funnily enough, I also knew about Ianto's death long before I started watching, my friends had talked about it and the name was so unusual, it stuck with me. So I also never had the time to get really attached to him but I can see how his death might have come unexpected for the people being in fandom for years.

Since it was only Jack, Gwen and Ianto in CoE, I also kinda knew something might happen to Tosh and Owen. It has never been heard that someone left Torchwood on their own will...

I have heard of people though for whom MD was the first Torchwood and made them become a fan.

Good luck with your fic! We do have a mutual friend then in jedi-harkness The world is small.