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{Living that mobile blog life}
you may have noticed my once great Torchwood blog has been a bit dead recently. My queue ran out ages ago, and college has really been taking up what little time I have, so no time for Janto tears y'know?
Maybe one day this blog will start up again, but for now? Nah sorry. Got Forensic science to study and all.
CaptainJHarkness had a good run.
Bye (for now)
Torchwood, touching stuff we shouldn’t since 1879
(So this is part 2 of the Torchwood article posted in October’s issue of Gay Times Magazine. Part 1 is here.)
Written by James Goss (Torchwood writer)
John Barrowman / Gareth David Lloyd
“Is that a pair of pants?” It’s May, 2016. John Barrowman and Gareth David-Lloyd have come to pay their respects at the Shrine. When Gareth’s character Ianto died, fans were so distraught that they started leaving messages and gifts down in Cardiff Bay where Torchwood was filmed. To the bafflement of the council and many tourists, they’re still doing it, and the Shrine is still there.
(So there was an article about Torchwood in the October issue of Gay Times Magazine, and I’m not sure if anyone has transcribed it yet? But this is some a* stuff and with it being the 10 year anniversary, I’ll post it now.
But seriously, this article is incredible and sums up the show better than I could have done it.)
(There is also a specific little article about John Barrowman and Gareth David-Lloyd who play Captain Jack and Ianto here.)
Written by James Goss (Torchwood writer)
A decade ago Torchwood changed television.
You might not think that a show about people fighting aliens in Cardiff would be revolutionary, but it was. In the world before Torchwood, mainstream drama series didn’t really do gay characters - or, if they did, it’d be in a single episode about sad gays in the military. Torchwood changed all that.
Created by Russell T Davies as a spin-off from Doctor Who, Torchwood was a science fiction series where all the regular cast were unashamedly pansexual. Queer characters were never portrayed as victims, and it never judged or punished them for their sexuality. It is also - to date - the only action TV series with an unquestionably bisexual leading man. Torchwood was a world where queer people weren’t the hero’s best friend - they were the heroes. And no one was more heroic than Captain Jack.
» Happy 10th Anniversary Torchwood!
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❝Torchwood: outside the government, beyond the police. Fighting for the future on behalf of the human race. The 21st century is when everything changes. And Torchwood is r e a d y.❝
Ahead of this week’s release of Big Finish’s Torchwood - The Torchwood Archive, a celebration of the show’s 10th anniversary, we go behind the scenes to talk to the actors, writers and director about what Torchwood means to them…
On Small Worlds & Jack’s development since DW
(his curse is to always see the bigger picture)
‘Go on, somebody,’ said Jack at length. ‘I got nothing.’
There was no immediate response.
‘Catalogue item nine-eight-one is pretty fancy,’ said Owen eventually, making an effort to say something.
‘What?’
‘Nine-eight-one,’ said Owen. ‘Bit sexy, that. I didn’t know we had anything like that in the Armoury.’
‘If you’d known it was there, I’d have worried,’ said Jack.
‘I’m just a bit disappointed I didn’t get to play with it. By the time Ianto arrived with it, it was all over.’
Jack muttered something.
‘Sorry?’ asked Owen.
Jack shrugged. ‘I said… everyone’s probably quite pleased you didn’t get to play with it.’
Owen sniffed and nodded. He sighed. ‘Everyone’s probably quite right about that.’
‘Well, I’m going to walk forwards. And I’m going to blow open that door,
with this.’ He waved the alien gun. ‘And if you try and stop me, I’ll have to hurt you, probably kill
you. You see, I really don’t care what happens to any of you. Whether you go to prison, hospital or the
morgue. Makes no difference to me. You deliberately set Torchwood up to get infected with that
virus, so you could blackmail some money out of us. So right now, all I care about is getting that
antidote. And if I have to kill every one of you, then I will. And I won’t even look back or think twice
about it.’
Consquences
Torchwood Fest Day 7: Favourite quote
You don’t fuck with the people Ianto loves.
(via janto-owns-my-soul)
