Torchwood developments

Posted on June 8, 2007 by

Russell “Television” Davies has confirmed his involvement in series 2 of Torchwood and announced that in a bid to better reflect modern Britain the forthcoming series will have Torchwood policing the new “alien threats register”.  Captain Jack will have overall responsibility for the register and much of the series will see Jack and Ianto attempting to have some private moments while swearing and then persuading plausibly created alien monsters (designed on a slightly cheaper budget than Doctor Who and bearing no similarity to the Chewits monster, oh no) to sign the register which will be housed on the blind spot near the rift in Cardiff.  Torchwood will imprison for more than 4 episodes any alien they discover that has failed to register on arrival in the general vicinity of the Cardiff area.  In a bid to up the realism Jack will not tell the aliens captured in episode 1 why they’ve been detained until episode 10 and so on.

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9 Responses to Torchwood developments

  1. surliminal says:
    June 8, 2007 at 12:16 pm

    Yopu forbet that all aliens in the general rift area will be required to leave samples on the AlienDNA Register on birth, transmogirification or arrival in our dimension..

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  2. judge_death says:
    June 8, 2007 at 12:24 pm

    Missing the “This is not true” tag, I believed this up until “Chewits monster”. I remember Lawrence Miles complaining about what “The Unquiet Dead” and its implications as a metaphor for asylum-seekers.

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    • loveandgarbage says:
      June 8, 2007 at 12:34 pm

      Although see http://loveandgarbage.livejournal.com/84903.html for a link to a youtube clip that bears marked similarity to the Torchwood episode 13 monster.
      On Miles’s review of The Unquiet Dead – he’d been writing the About Time series at the time and was probably looking too closely for parallels to the political state at the time. Prolonged exposure to Brain Hayles’ Peladon stories probably exacerbates the condition.

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  3. burkesworks says:
    June 8, 2007 at 12:29 pm

    a slightly cheaper budget than Doctor Who and bearing no similarity to the Chewits monster
    That means yet another show set in Cardiff then; the budget won’t run to travelling up the M6 in order for the monster to eat Barrow-in-Furness bus station.

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