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The Doctor Who Remix Archive went live, and non-anonymously, too. Here's what I wrote:

Purgatorio (The Paint-It-Black Remix) (8180 words) by Selena
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Torchwood, Doctor Who
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Alice Carter & Jack Harkness, Jack Harkness & The Master, Jack Harkness & Martha ( Read more... )

Look, you may know him as Malcolm Tucker, but I still haven't watched In the Thick of It and thus I primarily think of him as Frobisher from Torchwood: Children of Earth. In which he was so stunning, outstanding and moving that I refuse to believe this wasn't the role that got him his third gig in the Whoverse. (The first one being a Roman in Fires ( Read more... )

Day 17 - Favorite mini series

That depends on several factors. Do we count miniseries which are part of a greater whole, like the one that kicked Battlestar Galactica off, or Torchwood: Children of Earth? Or do only miniseries count which have no before or after on tv? If so, does a two parter count as a miniseries or does a miniseries have to ( Read more... )

Aha! Let's see who comes to mind.

( spoilers for Alias, I Claudius, Doctor Who, Torchwood, Damages (first four seasons) )

5 minor or one-off characters that you wish could have gotten more face time. (Or would show up again)

1. Babylon 5: Timov. Londo's wives get mentioned in several episodes, but we meet them only in one, Soul Mates. One episode was enough to make Timov one of my favourite B5 characters, though. From her lethal sarcasm (mostly, but not exclusively ( Read more... )

Being Human: two quite different yet both eloquent meta posts:

Being Human, Season 3

Vampires and their cryptic bullshitBoth posts, though their interpretation of some characters wildly differ, say yes to s3 and its arc. It occured to me that one of the objections I've heard elsewhere was that "this isn't the show we were promised in the pilot", ( Read more... )

Quote of the day:
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These last days I've been rewatching Torchwood: Childen of Earth, and oh, it really is as good as I remember. Bloody brilliant, as Gwen Cooper would say. RTD, John Fay, James Moran, Euros Lyn and all the actors created something great there, and those five hours alone would make me appreciate everyone involved if they had never done anything else ( Read more... )

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