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[1483749283]

Oh my God... I just watched like 12 episodes of Torchwood on the plane back-to-back... it was like living with Merrill.

I... highly... recommend it.

(faints)

[Wulfram]

I find Gwen Cooper to sound quite different to Merrill, most of the time.

[ElvaliaRavenHart]

I just started watching Torchwood on Starz and I love it. Information please. Isn't this from a prior series or books?

[SCK barman]

Nope, all original from the BBC England ( unless it's the new mini series which is cross produced with a u.s. company)

[ForgeDark]

Wulfram wrote...

I find Gwen Cooper to sound quite different to Merrill, most of the time.

I didn't even notice they were the same person and I've been watching torchwood since the start

[1483749283]

The creator of Torchwood, and much of its lore, is originally from Doctor Who.

David Gaider specifically asked for Eve Myles to voice Merrill based on her work in Torchwood.

In fact, if you watch all the sexual-identity-bending criss-cross relationships in Torchwood, there's a clear parallel to all the bisexuality that permeates DA2.

I just wish there was a romance with a two-hundred-year-old spirit in DA2 as well.

EDIT: Whaddya know, there is. Frickin' Anders.

Modifié par Pausanias, 01 août 2011 - 09:40 .

[ElvaliaRavenHart]

SCK barman wrote...

Nope, all original from the BBC England ( unless it's the new mini series which is cross produced with a u.s. company)

I think the one on Starz is cross produced with the US.  I believer their is a disclaimer in the credits to the show on Starz.   Thank you for the information.  I'm going to see if I can find a link to the old series or check our BBC listings.  I'd love to watch them.

[ForgeDark]

ElvaliaRavenHart wrote...

SCK barman wrote...

Nope, all original from the BBC England ( unless it's the new mini series which is cross produced with a u.s. company)

I think the one on Starz is cross produced with the US.  I believer their is a disclaimer in the credits to the show on Starz.   Thank you for the information.  I'm going to see if I can find a link to the old series or check our BBC listings.  I'd love to watch them.

I'd recommend it, the old series are really good  

[Wulfram]

The first two series are of rather questionable quality, I thought - I didn't watch all of them. The 3rd was a big shift in tone, very good, and incredibly depressing.

[SCK barman]

Wulfram wrote...

The first two series are of rather questionable quality, I thought - I didn't watch all of them. The 3rd was a big shift in tone, very good, and incredibly depressing.

I felt the same but then i always compared it to Doctor Who, which may have been my mistake.

[ReallyRue]

Wulfram wrote...

The first two series are of rather questionable quality, I thought - I didn't watch all of them. The 3rd was a big shift in tone, very good, and incredibly depressing.

Personally I much prefered the old series. I felt it focused more on the Torchwood team.

[TanyaT]

Wulfram wrote...

I find Gwen Cooper to sound quite different to Merrill, most of the time.

as a brit I am very familiar with Eve Myles, hear her do radio plays as well as TV's Torchwood, know her voice as gutsy and up front, so was extremely surprised when I discovered she was sweet wee Merrill!
last thing I heard on the radio, she was yelling at a slow car in front of her "COME ON GRANDMA!",  then I go back to DA2 and Merrill asking if she's missed something dirty

Another case of the bloody good voice acting that Bioware get

[Time4Tiddy]

ElvaliaRavenHart wrote...

SCK barman wrote...

Nope, all original from the BBC England ( unless it's the new mini series which is cross produced with a u.s. company)

I think the one on Starz is cross produced with the US.  I believer their is a disclaimer in the credits to the show on Starz.   Thank you for the information.  I'm going to see if I can find a link to the old series or check our BBC listings.  I'd love to watch them.

The one on Starz is technically the fourth season of Torchwood, but it's the first to be originally broadcast on an American channel.  The first two seasons of Torchwood fluctuate in quality, a few great episodes, a lot of cheesy ones.  The third season is pretty much brilliant.  I made my parents watch Children of Earth (season 3) after they started watching the Starz production, and they loved it.

Also in the first two seasons of Torchwood there is some value to either watching or have watched the concurrent seasons of Dr. Who, as there is some cross over.  Torchwood was originally created as a spin-off from Dr. Who, and Jack's immortality is a result of events that took place on Dr. Who. 

The three connected shows are:

Dr. Who - all audiences
Sarah Jane Adventures - kid-friendly
Torchwood - adults only

All three shows share a universe and feature cross-over events and characters.

[Gervaise]

Sorry to sound a bit dense but I thought Merrill (Dalish) are meant to be Irish, although I did find her accent a bit difficult to place, while Gwen Cooper is Welsh. Or was Merrill's a cross between the two?

[Wulfram]

Gervaise wrote...

Sorry to sound a bit dense but I thought Merrill (Dalish) are meant to be Irish, although I did find her accent a bit difficult to place, while Gwen Cooper is Welsh. Or was Merrill's a cross between the two?

Original plan was for all the Dalish to have Welsh accents, but I think they said they couldn't find enough voice actors with the right accent so everyone except Merrill ended up Irish.

Merrill was originally from a different clan, which perhaps explains why her accent is different from the rest.

[TanyaT]

Merrill's as Welsh as they come, the rest have the offensive Norn Iron* accent, unlike my friends from Belfast, which set your hackles rising

*how you pronounce Northern Ireland if you're from there

[TanyaT]

Time4Tiddy wrote...

The one on Starz is technically the fourth season of Torchwood, but it's the first to be originally broadcast on an American channel.  The first two seasons of Torchwood fluctuate in quality, a few great episodes, a lot of cheesy ones.  The third season is pretty much brilliant.  I made my parents watch Children of Earth (season 3) after they started watching the Starz production, and they loved it.

Also in the first two seasons of Torchwood there is some value to either watching or have watched the concurrent seasons of Dr. Who, as there is some cross over.  Torchwood was originally created as a spin-off from Dr. Who, and Jack's immortality is a result of events that took place on Dr. Who. 

The three connected shows are:

Dr. Who - all audiences
Sarah Jane Adventures - kid-friendly
Torchwood - adults only

All three shows share a universe and feature cross-over events and characters.

Sarah Jane was dire, she couldn't act for toffee, but the children's' TV prog was sweet though none of my friends' kids watched it.

Dr Who has been extremely variable over the centuries, but the hokum's good for Saturday night when you've just come back from football. The newer series have been darker, but went soppy when Russell T Davies got off message. They've improved and are quite dark.

Torchwood is no longer involved with Dr Who as it's dead, but I am hoping it returns in some sense, if only to see Barrowman flirting outrageously with everything that moves.

Torchwood was fun, although they gut wrenchingly killed a couple of important characters, including Capn Jack's boyfriend
The US combined version is ok, but doesn't really work for me, the old series wasn't a series wide story, most episodes could be taken separately (apart from the main characters' lives). This is too serious not enough aliens popping out of the Rift wich is Cardiff

[Gervaise]

Bit of trivia for those who are interested - I am reliably informed that there is an actual "Wall of Ianto" in Cardiff where his fans can pay their respects.

[TanyaT]

Gervaise wrote...

Bit of trivia for those who are interested - I am reliably informed that there is an actual "Wall of Ianto" in Cardiff where his fans can pay their respects.

you mean this ?

[TanyaT]

in this series of Torchwood (the US version) they said no one could be knocked out and since then they've knocked people out all over the place


oh the joys of being a nerd.

[Gespenst]

So... wait, there's an American version of Torchwood? Are we talking the American version of the Office or the American version of Red Dwarf (*shudder*) here?

[TanyaT]

Gespenst wrote...

So... wait, there's an American version of Torchwood? Are we talking the American version of the Office or the American version of Red Dwarf (*shudder*) here?

Maker no! thankfully.
This is a combined effort, with Jack, Gwen and her man and baby, plus some really useless CIA bods, mostly set over there not in Wales, but some is Wales because it's Gwen's family - it's currently running on Beeb 1.


I gather the Rift is still in Cardiff as there's an area that still has no 3G reception, can only be alien intervention can't it?

[thats1evildude]

TanyaT wrote...

[This is a combined effort, with Jack, Gwen and her man and baby, plus some really useless CIA bods

They're not so useless anymore as of the last episode, where they save Jack and Gwen's asses.

On a side note, the Raiders of the Waking Sea are apparently led by a man named Ianto.

Modifié par thats1evildude, 24 août 2011 - 06:33 .