Torchwood, gone but not forgotten

[fajrdrako]

So Russell T Davies is back in England working on a kid's show. And of course John Barrowman and Eve Myles want to do another Torchwood - but I'd not longer want to see Torchwood written by Russell T Davies, who likes to torture Captain Jack way too much.

Maybe if Stephen Moffat wrote it...

Comments

[dewline]

Any other candidates for lead writer?

[fajrdrako]

Well... who is good? who is also British? Mark Gatiss: Perhaps one of the Hustler writers? My favourite Torchwood writer was Catherine Treganna. I'd give her the show, quite happily!

[51stcenturyfox]

Seconding... I really like her writing!

[fajrdrako]

...I meant Hustle. Oops.

[kelticbanshee]

If Steven Moffat wrote Torchwood, I'd be a very happy fan. Though my head would hurt quite a lot, I suspect. I love his writing, and he makes me think a lot, which is great.

[fajrdrako]

Yup, Moffat would have the right combination of insanity and complication.

[kelticbanshee]

Indeed!

[crabby_lioness]

I'm up for any good writer who realizes that the death of children is not inconsequential.

I was saddened when Torchwood developed the Star Trek Baby Disease.

[fajrdrako]

the Star Trek Baby Disease.

I'm not familiar with that one - did babies die in Star Trek?

[crabby_lioness]

All the time. It's why Moffet insisted Jenny live.

With the exception of Wesley Crusher, offspring had a bad habit of showing up at the beginning of an episode and dying off before the end. Bad as that habit was by itself, there was never any follow-through or any grieving. This is considered to be the most emotionally devastating experience there is, and it was treated as if it were nothing.

That big a break with emotional realism is more than I can take. I'll put up with any number of rubber monsters, but I expect the emotions to be real.

[fajrdrako]

Yeah. Besides which, it's a depressing theme, too.

[seanchaidh]

He goes through a space-time-wibbly thing and ends up in a parallel Torchwood Three where Ianto, Tosh and Owen are still alive!

[fajrdrako]

Sounds good to me!

I'd so love to see Tosh again.

[beatrixal]

If Moffat wrote Torchwood, we would have yet another series with people running down dark hallways. :~D

[fajrdrako]

So we would!

I'm not sure he'd be good with Torchwood, but I'd like to think he'd keep some humour in it, and leave our characters alive and intact.