US version Of Torchword in development!

[RoJoHen]

Just why does everyone keep suggesting an American branch of Torchwood? Torchwood's mandate is to defend Britain? How does an American division factor into that.

Unless, you're going to bring the mysterious Torchwood 4 into this. Torchwood 4 was the branch Jack mentioned in the pilot as having "disappeared" but was "expected to return someday." I suppose it's possible that Torchwood 4, while origianlly being somewhere in the UK could somehow end up in America when it returns.

The US Army and Air Force's mandates are to defend the United States.

Why then is there USAF and Army in Britain, Germany, etc.?

See the parallel?

Yeah, a branch of Torchwood could certainly be operating in the US for one reason or another.

 

[Kelso]

Wasn't Cardiff the last remnant of Torchwood? The old organization is gone, along with it's original mandate. A new branch could pop up anywhere and call itself "Torchwood" without giving a crap about the British Empire.

 

[David cgc]

And, of course, if TPTB want to put a Torchwood branch in the US, nothing and no one will stop them. They don't even have to explain it for us anal-retentive killjoys. If they don't, we'll do it ourselves!

 

[Sci]

Why does the American Torchwood have to be contemporary? Have President Garfield establish the US version in 1881 in response to the British creating their Torchwood in 1879.

Why on Earth would they have used the name of a British secret agency for an American one -- especially in an era when the United States and United Kingdoms were not exactly the best buddies that they've been since World War I?

I can buy Garfield establishing a U.S. agency to deal with extraterrestrial threats, but it wouldn't have been called "Torchwood." It would have the American Flag wrapped around it.

The US Army and Air Force's mandates are to defend the United States.

Why then is there USAF and Army in Britain, Germany, etc.?

See the parallel?

The difference is that those bases exist with the consent of the host governments. Furthermore, the United States Air Force and United States Army are not secret organizations created without legislative consent and answerable only to the President the way the Torchwood Institute was created by royal decree, is outside the government (i.e., not answerable to the Prime Minister), and answerable only to the Monarch. And, on top of all that, you're forgetting a basic fact: The United States is unwilling to compromise its direct control over its own national security. Even with North American Aerospace Defense, a joint U.S.-Canadian operation, the U.S. government made sure that NORAD's commanding officer is always a U.S. flag officer and the Canadians can only ever be the second-in-command.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

There could be a US Torchwood, but it would probably be called Section 31.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Why does the American Torchwood have to be contemporary? Have President Garfield establish the US version in 1881 in response to the British creating their Torchwood in 1879.

Why on Earth would they have used the name of a British secret agency for an American one -- especially in an era when the United States and United Kingdoms were not exactly the best buddies that they've been since World War I?

The "special relationship" actually cooled off significantly after 1919 because of the debacle over the League of Nations and other issues.

I can buy Garfield establishing a U.S. agency to deal with extraterrestrial threats, but it wouldn't have been called "Torchwood." It would have the American Flag wrapped around it.

Quite so, rename it "Crowd Hoot" or "Hotrod Cow" or whatever. "Torchwood" is a brand but it's not that well established in the US.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Who says the US government has to know.

 

[wamdue]

Who says the US government has to know.

because this is Torchwood, the best known secert agency in the history of secert agency's. How could the US government not know?

 

[HappyDayRiot]

Why does the American Torchwood have to be contemporary? Have President Garfield establish the US version in 1881 in response to the British creating their Torchwood in 1879.

Why on Earth would they have used the name of a British secret agency for an American one -- especially in an era when the United States and United Kingdoms were not exactly the best buddies that they've been since World War I?

The "special relationship" actually cooled off significantly after 1919 because of the debacle over the League of Nations and other issues.

I can buy Garfield establishing a U.S. agency to deal with extraterrestrial threats, but it wouldn't have been called "Torchwood." It would have the American Flag wrapped around it.

Quite so, rename it "Crowd Hoot" or "Hotrod Cow" or whatever. "Torchwood" is a brand but it's not that well established in the US.

Officially what I will be calling Torchwood from now on. Genius.

 

[AJBryant]

If it's based in the US, how do they rationalize it with the original Torchwood charter? You guys tossed the Brits out before it was founded.

Well, it would give a reason (finally) for a TV show being filmed in Vancouver -- the city really WOULD be Vancouver -- Torchwood is still a Commonwealth thing.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Who says the US government has to know.

because this is Torchwood, the best known secert agency in the history of secert agency's. How could the US government not know?

Its the US government, stranger things have happened.

 

[wamdue]

I think its safe to say that the US government is aware that Torchwood exisits, via UNIT of security briefings the UK might have shared.

The question would be, do they know Torchwood has a base, again I think they would do.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I think its safe to say that the US government is aware that Torchwood exisits, via UNIT of security briefings the UK might have shared.

The question would be, do they know Torchwood has a base, again I think they would do.

Just trying to work around some problems.

Maybe Torchwood USA is so deep undercover that even Torchwood UK and UNIT do not know it exists. Maybe Jack set it up with just that in mind.

 

[The Wormhole]

If it's based in the US, how do they rationalize it with the original Torchwood charter? You guys tossed the Brits out before it was founded.

Well, it would give a reason (finally) for a TV show being filmed in Vancouver -- the city really WOULD be Vancouver -- Torchwood is still a Commonwealth thing.

Just imagine it: Captain Jack fighting a Weevil in the omnipresent pine forest.

 

[RoJoHen]

I think its safe to say that the US government is aware that Torchwood exisits, via UNIT of security briefings the UK might have shared.

The question would be, do they know Torchwood has a base, again I think they would do.

Just trying to work around some problems.

Maybe Torchwood USA is so deep undercover that even Torchwood UK and UNIT do not know it exists. Maybe Jack set it up with just that in mind.

I wouldn't put it past him. I mean, he did set up that goofy island with all the Rift victims without even his own team knowing about it.

 

[Lindley]

I found it curious that the computer document in Children of Earth said that TW2 had "disbanded" without explanation, and made no mention at all of TW4.....

 

[wamdue]

Digital Spy is again reporting that Barrowman will be on Desperate Housewives.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Digital Spy is again reporting that Barrowman will be on Desperate Housewives.

Didn't Barrowman himself say about that earlier last year?

 

[wamdue]

Digital Spy is again reporting that Barrowman will be on Desperate Housewives.

Didn't Barrowman himself say about that earlier last year?

I never heard it direct from his mouth.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Digital Spy is again reporting that Barrowman will be on Desperate Housewives.

Didn't Barrowman himself say about that earlier last year?

I never heard it direct from his mouth.

I thought he did in some interview or other. Saying he was pretty much booked up for 2 years, and hoped Torchwood was confirmed soon or it'd be hard to fit it in.