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BBC Announces Adult Doctor Who Spin-Off
Dogtanian writes "The BBC has just announced a new 'Doctor Who' spin-off called 'Torchwood'. It is intended to be more adult in tone, and will follow a team investigating alien activities in modern-day Britain. Described as a cross between 'The X-Files' and 'This Life', it will feature Captain Jack, the bisexual time-travelling conman who featured in a number of recent Who episodes. The BBC are likely hoping that this spin-off will be more successful than 'K9 and Company'. The title is an anagram of a popular British sci-fi series, by the way."
Doctor Who in case you missed it.....
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One episode had the Doctor developing some kind of force field so the Tardis wouldn't get hit by Dalek missiles
Using the extrapolator they picked up in Boomtown. It was a neat piece of continuity.
(how can you get hit by a missile when your ship dematerializes to travel through both space AND time?).
Presumably, the Daleks had developed anti-TARDIS technology in order to be a threat against the Time Lords. And in any case, the ship was only travelling through space.
And when it came right down to it, the whole "Bad Wolf" plot thread was a huge letdown at the end and didn't really make any kind of sense at all.
Rose interpreted the Bad Wolf messages to mean she could still go back and save the Doctor. Once Bad Wolf Rose had the time vortex running through her head, she scattered references to Bad Wolf everywhere she had been so she would get the message. Thus, Bad Wolf Rose created herself. It's a predestination paradox.
It was intentionally a Deus Ex Machina type ending, but it wasn't without consequences. And hopefully there'll be more consequences for Rose in the 2nd series. It's too bad Faction Paradox isn't around or else they might have a new member...
Queer As Folk
You realize that was originally a British series... and as it happens, created by Mr. Davies...
I was reading this article just before this story was posted to Slashdot, and found it to be very informative (though one could say that it has too much information, thankyouverymuch).
Its going to be difficult for this show to reach its target audience, which I would assume is 19 - 35 males. Most would rather see more Lexx and Seven-of-Nine in their 'Adult' sci-fi, by my estimation.
Sig cancelled due to lack of interest
It's a common misconception, but you can use profanity or show a boob on network TV, as long as it's after 10pm. NYPD Blue uses profanity and shows nudity quite often (not full on gyno graphic shots, but nude). Why SuperBowl was a big thing was that it happened before 10pm and that it wasn't classified properly so parents & V-chips wouldn't know of the content ahead of time.
And here's the FCC rule
47 C.F.R. 73.3999:
(b) No licensee of a radio or television broadcast station shall broadcast on any day between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. any material which is indecent.
Russell T. Davies is the guy behind the new Doctor Who, and also Torchwood. Here is an interview with him from BBC Wales about the new series: Why Torchwood?
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He didn't.
Ok, I know he kind of did. Remember, the exposure he got was second-hand.
That's impossible to determine from what we saw. We know that the name of the corporation on the ship where the Dalek's invaded was called "Bad Wolf" but without knowing more information on the origination of the predestination paradox, we can't be certain if this is the cause of or a result of the "Bad Wolf."
You mean aside from the cost of production?
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If Rose was able to destroy the Daleks by simply having a long look at the TARDIS core, then why did the entire Gallifreyian species die out in the Dalek conflict? Were none of them able to do the same? Why was the Doctor able to survive the exposure?
It's clearly established that the results of unlimited time activity, let alone interacting directly with the vortex, can led to results that are dangerous, and at best, unpredictable. Rose gambled that she could look into the vortex because she believed she had left herself clues, which indicated at least temporary lucid survival. Absent such clues, the Gallifreyians wouldn't access the vortex in a premeditated fashion, because the results could be disasterous.
why did the God Dalek consent to use humans as raw material?
The Dalek Emperor gave a lengthy rant about how only one cell in a zillion was deemed fit to be used, unlike the captured Dalek, who had no choice but to mainline Rose, but even then it's not for nothing that the Dalek Emperor was n-u-t-s -- casting himself as a God was the only to resolve the cognitive dissonance of using non-Dalek material.
Why would the Autons, the Rift, the Slovenes, the gas creatures, and Rose's home all be in Cardiff?
Because they aren't? Most of the present-day terrestrial action -- apart from the Rift follow-up with the last Slovene -- takes place in London, not Cardiff. Rose's home, and the store she worked in, were in London. (Hints: establishing shots of famous London landmarks, the Millenium Eye used a plot device, alien saucer crashing into Big Ben, accents, etc)
More attention seems to have been paid to continuity in the old series.
Actually, apart from inside multi-episode arcs, the old show was famous for making continuity bobbles and tripping itself up, hence the huge problems that arose when fans tried to write a history of the Daleks, for example.
"Just once, I'd like to meet an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets." -- The Brigadier, Dr. Who
The quote in full:
"What's a Defabricator?"
Jack's clothes are disintergrated
"Okay defabricator, does exactly what it says on the tin. Ladies, am I naked in front of thousands of viewers?"
"Yes."
"Ladies your ratings just went up."
- Jack Harkness and the Trinny and Suzanna bots, Bad Wolf
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