Martha and Mickey? Could they have a place in Jack's New Torchwood Order?
Torchwood: Children of Earth DAY FOUR grading thread
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Doubt it, Noel Clarke is busy with films and writing, and Freema will be filming the second series of Law and Order.
This has been the best Doctor Who universe event - ever. Yup, I said it. I SAID IT.
Now I'm biting my nails and hoping RTD doesn't royally fuck up the finale
Now I'm biting my nails and hoping RTD doesn't royally fuck up the finale
Well, even Gwen survives presumably being pregnant is going to involve time away from Torchwood, so Jack will be alone.
I would love more Torchwood if it's all this good, but this would be a good place to end it. Then the Moff could his character back to use on Who.
I would love more Torchwood if it's all this good, but this would be a good place to end it. Then the Moff could his character back to use on Who.
But you can get them for a packet of fags.
Anything is better than BB
Ha ha. I had a similar experience, the wife is now a Torchwood fan!!!Just need to work on Doctor Who now......
I know this is OT but was john barrowman on live and Kicking?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP0jgD0POOs&feature=related
Yes, yes he was. And was so unpopular they ditched him quite early on.
I didnt say it made it better, but sure seems to make the people at COBRA feel better.That makes it better?
im not going to say it was rubbish because Sarah Jane wasnt in it, im just wondering what she is doing, even since TSE/JE, its now nearly impossible for me not to wonder what Sarah Jane is doing during a Doctor Who or Torchwood episode.
Look like it or not Children of Earth is set in the Whoverse, and part of that is Sarah Jane Smith and her super computer Mr Smith, who along with her genius adoptive son & a couple of her sons school friends, hunt aliens.
It seems very odd that the show asks us to both be totally engaged with Whoverse, but also ask us to totally forget about one part of it, a part of it, which could be alot of help.
I think you are going to have to suspend disbelief in the case of SJ. If she had been involved, the team would have been storming Number 10 the second Kids got involved. And it limits the drama somewhat if the team are stranded without resources for 10 minutes, until Gwen points out they can all just nip over to Sarah Janes and use her Supercomputer and have a cup of tea. It serves the plot better to have her busy doing something else. And in the end there is nothing stopping RTD referring back to Children of Earth in a future episode of SJA.
Its really the same reason why Martha has to be on holiday, somewhere presumably without phones, news services, or any children whatsoever. Because if Martha was around, you can guarantee that she would have rung The Doctor and the series would have been over 15 minutes after the 456 arrived. The Doctor would have marched in, given them a bit of witty banter, zapped a few things with his sonic screwdriver then sent them on their way.
Ianto's death was almost as heart wrenching as Tosh and Owens. I wasnt that fond of him initially, but series 2 and the first 3 Days made me quite fond of him. And now he's gone too. All i can say is RTD better have some decent new characters to add to the show, because he's killed off three fifths of the reasons why i watched the show in the first place.
Just posted on twitter.
I wasn't a fan of Torchwood before, having only watched a few episodes and not got into it.
Children of Earth has been fantastic this week and I'd like to watch the previous series now.
I'd also like to see Doctor Who do a bigger story like they used to, possibly a five-nighter like this has been. I like the format.
Children of Earth has been fantastic this week and I'd like to watch the previous series now.
I'd also like to see Doctor Who do a bigger story like they used to, possibly a five-nighter like this has been. I like the format.
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I like the format too. I was very skeptical about a 5-day "event", but it's been executed so well that I'd be happy to see them do it again. Maybe not with the parent show though.
I like the format too. I was very skeptical about a 5-day "event", but it's been executed so well that I'd be happy to see them do it again. Maybe not with the parent show though.
Martha's on her honeymoon - she's got more important things to do than save the children of the world. And SJS... well, frankly I don't care where she is. Or whether her series ever references this Event.
To be honest, I'm seriously entertaining the notion this Event won't have a resolution. Certainly not a happy ending for anyone. Could it be - could Children of Earth be... THE EVENT?! Let's hope everyone remembers to remain indoors!
Also I have to say how happy I am Rhys confirmed this is taking place in 2009. Because, ladies and gentlemen, that means we are FINALLY over the Whoniverse's irritating and pointless setting of being one year ahead of real life. Next series of SJA will be 2009, and Tennant's finale will be Christmas 2009. Thank fuck. Well, assuming there's much of a planet left for the Doctor to die on.
To be honest, I'm seriously entertaining the notion this Event won't have a resolution. Certainly not a happy ending for anyone. Could it be - could Children of Earth be... THE EVENT?! Let's hope everyone remembers to remain indoors!
Also I have to say how happy I am Rhys confirmed this is taking place in 2009. Because, ladies and gentlemen, that means we are FINALLY over the Whoniverse's irritating and pointless setting of being one year ahead of real life. Next series of SJA will be 2009, and Tennant's finale will be Christmas 2009. Thank fuck. Well, assuming there's much of a planet left for the Doctor to die on.
Sorry for asking such a wanky fanboy dickhead question but:
Does this mean the events of CoE pre-date Stolen Earth/Journey's End?
Didn't they reference this in Day One?
They're still running slightly ahead of us in the show - the newspaper Ianto picks up in Day 2 is dated September 2009.
Not directly, as far as I remember. If this takes place in 2009, wasn't Stolen Earth supposed to be happening in 2010? Or am I just being a retard?
The nerdgasm that would result from Children of Earth being The Event would quite possibly kill me.Imagine finally seeing what happened to Unknown Male 282!
Well Voyage of the Damned was Christmas 2008, so I assume all of s4 was early/spring this year with CoE being a few months later. It surely can't be too long at any rate, otherwise they'd have got off their asses and recruited a medic and tech-whiz before Rupinder showed up.
I can just imagine it. The continuity announcer over the end credits tonight:
"Please remain indoors, and stay tuned for The Quiz Broadcast. But REMAIN INDOORS."
I'm being a silly billy, thinking about it, it's perfectly obvious that everything broadcast after Journey's End happened *after* it.
Living in the Doctor Who universe would be shit! Big Ben smashed, planet stolen, 10% of earth's children on the verge of being kidnapped...
Makes the recession look like small potatoes.
Comments re the SJA and Martha do highlight the problems in expanding the Whoverse in the way it has been. In Star Trek it wouldn't matter is the Enterprise wasn't involved in something major at DS9, it's a big universe after all, but Earth, and especially the UK, is a lot smaller than the universe. I can only assume that Sarah Jane is off fighting a smaller scale threat somewhere, and as for Martha...like I give a shit! The thought of Freema doing Lois' Torchwood reveal makes me cringe!
Anyway, this whole mess is the Doctor's fault...face it Harriet Jones would still be PM if it wasn't for him, and her words in TCI have all the more relevance now. 'You're not always here, Doctor.'
Of course you have to wonder if Jones would have done anything differently? Likely she'd have given Jack and Torchwood a shot at 456...but we've seen how that turned out.
And am I the only one worried if Harry Pearce and co made it out of Thames House before the poison struck?
Anyway, this whole mess is the Doctor's fault...face it Harriet Jones would still be PM if it wasn't for him, and her words in TCI have all the more relevance now. 'You're not always here, Doctor.'
Of course you have to wonder if Jones would have done anything differently? Likely she'd have given Jack and Torchwood a shot at 456...but we've seen how that turned out.
And am I the only one worried if Harry Pearce and co made it out of Thames House before the poison struck?
Anything is better than BB
Usually I'd say the same, but a lot of this series of BB has been worth it. And I thought last nights show would have made it a priority for the GF.
From the trailer I'm expecting an uprising against government, but not too many dramatic long term effects. Part of the show is based in it's reality, besides whatever effects TW effects the whole Whoniverse as they insist on picking 21st century companions now.
Saying that - whatever the result, I'm in the camp that hopes it's not a happy one. A loss at the end of all of this would make a far better ending than going back to (reasonably) normal.
What I couldn't help but think... how many Prime Ministers has this Whoniverse gone through in the past few years now?
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