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Torchwood
Jul 15, 2018 21:19:43 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 15, 2018 21:19:43 GMT
Oh that's the cannibalism one isn't it?
I think over time I decided Torchwood wasn't very good.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 15, 2018 21:21:34 GMT
It wasn't for the most part. Especially in Series 1.
They Keep Killing Suzie is probably the best episode of the early run.
Andy
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Torchwood
Jul 15, 2018 22:37:24 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 15, 2018 22:37:24 GMT
At least Twitch are burning through it. All of s1 today. S2 next Sunday.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 16, 2018 7:02:08 GMT
Cyberwoman repeat is on as I get ready for work. More priceless reactions in the stream.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 22, 2018 19:52:32 GMT
S2 is streaming on Twitch tonight/tomorrow morning. It has not aged well.
*random crash zooms while camera dots about*
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Jul 22, 2018 20:03:19 GMT
S2 is streaming on Twitch tonight/tomorrow morning. It has not aged well. *random crash zooms while camera dots about* -Ralph *Stands on top of roof of building while camera zooms about* |
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 22, 2018 20:10:05 GMT
*van drives around randomly*
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 29, 2018 16:01:15 GMT
Season 3 (ie the good one) streams on Twitch today from 6pm gmt.
EDIT: 6:15pm.
-Ralph
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Torchwood
Jul 29, 2018 17:05:26 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 29, 2018 17:05:26 GMT
Did s2 kill the audience? Instead of 2-4k here for the start the audience is currently...541.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 29, 2018 17:38:48 GMT
Up to over a 1000 now...
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Post by blueshift on Jul 29, 2018 17:47:37 GMT
Did s2 kill the audience? Instead of 2-4k here for the start the audience is currently...541. -Ralph If stuff isn't regular, people forget. It should have been in a row after Doctor Who, not Knight Rider with a Torchwood Sunday, that's weird. I forgot about it!! |
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 29, 2018 18:17:42 GMT
Well it was advertised as every Sunday for 4 weeks. That seemed clear for a regular schedule.
DAY TWO is starting.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 29, 2018 18:20:08 GMT
Gwen with two guns! Phwoarrr.
-Ralph
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Torchwood
Jul 29, 2018 19:16:51 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 29, 2018 19:16:51 GMT
DAY THREE shortly.
I haven't seen this since it first aired though it is as good as I remembered. The jump in quality from s1/2 is huge.
-Ralph
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Torchwood
Jul 29, 2018 21:22:04 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 29, 2018 21:22:04 GMT
The scene which gave birth to the Ianto shrine just happened!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 30, 2018 9:01:39 GMT
I was so engrossed (even though I had seen it before) with season 3 I went to full screen display and so ignored the chat stream. Thrilling stuff. It goes like a rocket. The show really should have ended there. Partly due to the quality having reached a high and also because Torchwood itself as an entity was pretty much done by then.
-Ralph
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Torchwood
Jul 30, 2018 9:31:50 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 30, 2018 9:31:50 GMT
It was the natural endpoint for Torchwood. The fact that they continued it and there was such a disconnect as if the events of S3 had barely happened.
I will be amused to see the reaction to the next series on Sunday.
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Torchwood
Jul 30, 2018 9:41:03 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 30, 2018 9:41:03 GMT
Indeed. S4 was...not good.
The audios Big Finish make are really good though.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 5, 2018 13:37:13 GMT
Twitch's run of DW related material over the last few months comes to an end with Miracle Day starting around 6-ish UK time.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 5, 2018 17:00:58 GMT
Miracle Day in 15 minutes!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 5, 2018 17:15:28 GMT
884 viewers! Here we go.
-Ralph
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Torchwood
Aug 5, 2018 17:27:50 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 5, 2018 17:27:50 GMT
Is this the hardest of the hardcore sticking it out to the end?
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Torchwood
Aug 5, 2018 18:05:16 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 5, 2018 18:05:16 GMT
Episode 1 watched. This has not aged well.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Aug 5, 2018 20:47:13 GMT
Aged well? It wasn't that great to start with... I dread to think what time has done to it. When it aired I was clinging on by my fingers by half-way through. Only the sudden arrival of John De Lancie as the most sarcastic man in the US intelligence community got me through to the end.
Karl
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Torchwood
Aug 5, 2018 21:10:42 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 5, 2018 21:10:42 GMT
Oh *that* one. Oh dear.
Wait. Ralph is watching this tosh, yet is disdainful about Quatermass?!
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 5, 2018 21:12:14 GMT
I thought I would give it another go as I wasn't keen on it the first time. I bailed after episode 3. There are great ideas in it but it just doesn't work. It also isn't Torchwood anymore. It feels like a spin-off from it.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Aug 5, 2018 21:21:11 GMT
Yeah, between the co-production pulling it in ways it doesn't really want to go (literally as well as figuratively - the globe-trotting sounds like a good idea in theory but somehow doesn't look right in practice) and the fact that some of it never feels like it has all been properly thought through (the ending actually requires the villains to make a series of cringingly stupid decisions bringing about their own downfall which is both unsatisfying and kind of undermines Our Heroes a little) it just isn't "Ready for Primetime" as the saying goes.
It also has the problem of Torchwood already having had the best ending it was ever going to get. "Children of Earth" is absolutely superb on that front - with an ending that is both horrifying and heart-rending at the same time, and feels like it harks back to the very beginnings of the series. If that had been the end we would have gone from Torchwood as basically an amoral organisation that causes harm by doing nothing, to Torchwood trying to become a better thing, to Torchwood finally doing a truly terrible thing for a greater good - saving the lives of thousands by deliberately sacrificing an innocent... Yeah, that would have been an appropriate and impactful way for the series to end. Anything after that was never going to have the same impact.
Karl
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Torchwood
Aug 5, 2018 21:23:18 GMT
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Post by blueshift on Aug 5, 2018 21:23:18 GMT
I feel like miracle day would have worked fine as a five episode miniseries, but it's just waaaaaaaay too long and padded
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 6, 2018 10:44:02 GMT
I caught the last 20 minutes of the last Torchwood episode on the repeat stream. Even worse than I remembered. Not a good way to go out at all. At least we have the Big Finish audios. What I have heard of 'season 5' so far is great.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 7, 2018 8:36:10 GMT
I spoke too soon! I put on the 2nd 'season 5' boxset yesterday. The first episode was about a DEADLY SEX PLAGUE which made Gwen and Jack get it on. In the first 'hilarious' scene Jack is done up the bum so hard he dies. I am not making this up. Then the next episode had MR BILLIS from season 1 return for a rubbish plan. Darn it.
-Ralph
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