US version Of Torchword in development!
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You know, despite RTD being involved and the possibility of John Barrowman starring, I have reservations about this working. Torchwood as an American show? So much of Torchwood is contingent on its British roots. And how do you pull off the iconic self-deprication of Cardiff in the US? Have it set in one of the southern states?
I don't even want to get started on the horror of a sci-fi show on one of the Networks, Fox of all channels.
I'd watch it out of genuine interest, but this has sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.
I don't even want to get started on the horror of a sci-fi show on one of the Networks, Fox of all channels.
I'd watch it out of genuine interest, but this has sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.
I like the idea of exploring an American branch of Torchwood. All sorts of possibilities with that.
As for an "Americanized" Doctor Who, I don't see that happening. That is a DUMB idea.
As for an "Americanized" Doctor Who, I don't see that happening. That is a DUMB idea.
Awww, come on. Does this look so bad to you? 
Conan should be the next Doctor or the American Doctor. If anything it will shut up the gingers.
I'm not really bothered if there's an American Torchwood that's not in continuity with the UK Torchwood or Doctor Who. I won't even be bothered if there's an American Doctor Who that's not in continuity with the UK Doctor Who.
Variations on a theme. It's a big multiverse out there.
Look, if Terry Nation's Daleks: The Destroyers had gone to pilot and been picked up by NBC in 1966 or 1967, it wouldn't have been in continuity with Doctor Who. If the Daleks had appeared in Blake's 7 (as Nation hoped), that wouldn't mean that Blake's was in continuity with Who.
It is possible to hold multiple contradictory thoughts. Really.
Variations on a theme. It's a big multiverse out there.
Look, if Terry Nation's Daleks: The Destroyers had gone to pilot and been picked up by NBC in 1966 or 1967, it wouldn't have been in continuity with Doctor Who. If the Daleks had appeared in Blake's 7 (as Nation hoped), that wouldn't mean that Blake's was in continuity with Who.
It is possible to hold multiple contradictory thoughts. Really.
I just think most people (myself included) would prefer not to need to keep those thoughts sorted out.
I just think a US version of Doctor Who would be a silly idea while the UK version is still on the air.
A US version of Torchwood, however, would be fine, as long as it's a spin-off with new characters rather than a remake.
It is possible, especially in the WhoU. Daleks on Blake's would have been cool (and depending on how the B7 remake goes, could still happen).
I just don't want to see an Americanized Who. Part of what makes the Doctor work is his "Britishness". It it did come to pass, and had much of the talent on the current Who working it, I might give it a look, but just don't think it's a good idea.
Last time someone tried to bring Doctor Who to America he became half human.
Awww, come on. Does this look so bad to you?
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There was a rumor Barrowman was going to star as Captain America.
Also, it's a second-rate Hellmouth....er, I mean Rift.
Did they ever explain it on the original Torchwood? IIRC, it was all covered in "Utopia." When he talked about it on TW, Jack just said, "Yeah, I knew this special Doctor, and some weird shit happened." Boom, immortality, unexplained in any detail for anyone who watches Torchwood but not Doctor Who (which encompasses exactly one person I met who caught the show on BBCA).
Agreed. I watched Torchwood before I ever saw "Utopia." There was really no explanation about his immortality, and I never had a problem accepting it.
My gut reaction: this is a dumbass idea. Delete the Britishness of the Whoverse and you've deleted the part that makes it unique from any other sci fi series. How is an American Torchwood different from any other show in the X-Files/Fringe/etc genre that someone might get it in their head to launch? What's the point of slapping "Torchwood" on the title when that name means zip to the vast majority of Americans?
I'm sure I'd check it out, but I'm not expecting it to be either interesting or successful.
I'm sure I'd check it out, but I'm not expecting it to be either interesting or successful.
My thought was to make Torchwood a straight remake - no attempts at a spinoff or linking the shows together. No idea if that's the route they'd take, but I figure Fox would like that the best. If they wanted to make it a spinoff, they'd have to spend the pilot focusing on the British aspects of the show and potentially explain things that they might not want to explain.
I thought the thing at the end about a Doctor Who American version was just idle speculation. I have trouble seeing that working as anything more than a gimmick that fails. People who watch Doctor Who watch it for what it is. If they want an American version, there's no point in calling it Doctor Who (I don't think the original show even gets enough of an audience for instant American name recognition).
I thought the thing at the end about a Doctor Who American version was just idle speculation. I have trouble seeing that working as anything more than a gimmick that fails. People who watch Doctor Who watch it for what it is. If they want an American version, there's no point in calling it Doctor Who (I don't think the original show even gets enough of an audience for instant American name recognition).
Why on Earth would the United States allow the Torchwood Institute -- an organization answerable only to the Monarch, dedicated to the use of alien technology to restore the British Empire -- to operate in its territory?
I can see a series about a US branch of UNIT -- though good luck to RTD and Company if they do a show about a military operating in the U.S. that's answerable to the United Nations instead of just the U.S. -- but not Torchwood.
The Torchwood institute itself was not set up to restore the British Empire - at the time it didn't need restoring! That was Torchwood London and Yvonne Hartmann's take on it.
Torchwood was set up to defend the Empire against alien threats, but any threat to the Earth - no matter where on Earth it's based - is a threat to the Empire.
As to the US allowing Torchwood to operate in the US; well it's a secret organisation isn't it! (After all, in real life, MI6 operates in the US!) Adds a bit of tension if the FBI is always trying to find it and close it down!
Exactly. Heck you might as well call it Department 13 or Shockchasers (I don't know where that came from) or possibly something with an X in the title. Face it Torchwood doesn't leap off the page as an obvious sci-fi horror.
^ Whilst I do agree with Sci (hey it happens) I like the idea of Torchwood US as an organisation who are constantly having to battle the US governement as well as aliens. I just doubt it would be done right. Guess the proof of the pudding will be in the eating.
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