So I heard you like mudki- wait, start over.
So, FOX wants to bring Torchwood to America.
NO.
Why do I object? Because Americans fucked up their effort at Red Dwarf. Because Americans copy British shows regularly, and should be writing their own bloody stuff.
Because Americans will have no gay characters in this show, or they'll give us a female gay character, because lesbians are less ( Read more... )
NO.
Why do I object? Because Americans fucked up their effort at Red Dwarf. Because Americans copy British shows regularly, and should be writing their own bloody stuff.
Because Americans will have no gay characters in this show, or they'll give us a female gay character, because lesbians are less ( Read more... )
There are so many ways that's wrong. The worst of it for me? The possiblity of someone else as Capt. Jack? No. Barrowman pwns that role. There are no substitutes. There can be only one. He IS Torchwood if you really think about it. He can't die. He will outlive his coworkers. Characters will come and go. But Capt. Jack remains constant. Barrowman IS Capt. Jack. Oh, you know how they'd get around it? He got some Doctor DNA and with his immortality, he regenerates. Lame.
Also, do you think Kiss Kiss Bang Bang with James Marsters in the bar, which was so full of win and awesome, would ever have happened on Fox? OH HELL NO. OK, part of it would, the fight scene but nothing else and then it would be so full of loose and /fail it would be worth nothing out of context.
Also, the way the show is shot, I doubt anyone could duplicate with accuracy the way RTD works. I remember seeing an interview with him and Tennant where Tennant bemoaned the fact that *everything* RTD does is vertical and how much of a physical effort it is to shoot.
And what's this about an American version of Red Dwarf? I only know of the Brit version.
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I'm still mourning the loss of Ten and Ianto, and I'm dubious enough about Eleven. It's all well and good to say 'don't watch if you don't like what they make,' but it bothers me that they're trying. They can't come up with anything good on their own, so they're poaching from the UK again.
And NO, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang would NOT have happened as it did. Gay dudes freak out American TV too much. Openly expressing their sexuality freaks TV execs out worse. Gay women are fine; they don't threaten anyone's sense of security. Which is utterly stupid, of course, but that's how it seems to shake out in the end.
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And even IF they manage to reassemble the Brit cast, they'll butcher it all to hell.
No. Just. No.
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If they put Heidi Montag in Torchwood, we would definitely have to find and kill RTD. And the people who let her audition. And HER, frankly.
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I mean, really, the image of her on the front of People magazine? I was all, what the hell, they morphed her with Kelly McGillis and a couple of other people, and her own mother probably wouldn't recognize her now.
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