RTD Interview with After Elton..with added nutfuckery by Julie Gardner - Part 2

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This follows on from a post I put up last night:  http://aviv-b.livejournal.com/59394.html
about the brilliant, simply brilliant interview of RTD in After Elton found here:
http://www.afterelton.com/people/2010/08/russell-t-davies-julie-gardner-torchwood-the-new-world?page=0,2

Just a few more items worth noting

On the international nature of the show:

AE: Readers, people commenting about the storyline. I just said, "I don't know. We'll find out." You've been talking about a global storyline. Is it going to have a James Bond feel, zipping around the world to different locations?
RTD: Well, modern James Bond, like Daniel Craig's James Bond, yes, a bit of that feel, that sort of modern punching from one country to another.
JG: He's a great James Bond.
RTD: I think the great thing is that the story takes them there. Sometimes these things are just international for the sake of it. They just cut to Peru and someone is saying something exotic with a parrot in the background. This story will move from country to country with a purpose. The locations are really important, you feel like you're there, and it's got something to say about the society in each place.
JG: And this is a co-production between the BBC and Starz, so it genuinely works with the UK setting and the American locations we're going to use.

Oh - such exotic locations - the UK and the US. What next, Canada? And you can always count on Rusty for the Lulz. No Rusty, you would never, ever, film in an exotic location because, well, the weather sucks in Cardiff and its so much nicer in...hmm...let me think...Dubai, perhaps? 

On the importance of canon:
From  http://airlockalpha.com/node/7710/torchwood-becomes-legend-in-new-world.html

"We definitely have a really big story to tell," executive producer Julie Gardner said. Gardner was a key part of the past three "Torchwood" seasons, and left "Doctor Who" with Davies following David Tennant's finale specials. "It's absolutely rebooted to welcome a new audience."

Although Gardner talked about a reboot, sources re-assure Airlock Alpha that canon will remain intact, and that the fourth season is indeed a continuation of the events in the previous three seasons. Gardner's choice of the word "reboot" is more about how the story is told, and less about the story itself.

BWAAHAHAHAHA! They can't even keep their own bullshit straight. Yeah, canon will be as respected in S4 as it was in CoE. Which is to say: NOT AL ALL.

And the piece de resistance:

AE: What do you think coming to America is going to bring to Torchwood?
RTD:I haven't thought about it. Just having a Welshman around in the writers' room is hilarious. If you say "tomahto," I say "tomato." There is a bit of that. But it's a bigger horizon than Torchwood 3. It's important to remember that Jack's American. That's why it's such an easy fit. We tend to talk about Jack as if he's a British character, but for a new audience, they'll see an American man talking in an American accent. 

Uh Rusty, last time I checked Jack was from the BOESHANE PENINSULA! 
Rusty, I may be a stupid Amerkin so please, please show me on a map where that is? I think maybe near Cleveland?  My cousin Murray lives in Canton, maybe he knows Jack?

The man doesn't even know the basics of his story's canon. The man is so stupid, my head just exploded. Seriously. 

 

Comments

[aviv-b.livejournal.com]

Jack telling a joke about shagging Ianto - that makes so much sense its scary! I know he's going to poke the Ianto fans somehow, and I think you just came up with possiblly the most hurtful way to do that.

The only thing I thought of was to have Gwen mention something about Ianto and have Jack go 'Who?'

[love-jackianto.livejournal.com]

'Jack telling a joke about shagging Ianto - that makes so much sense its scary!'
What can I say, it just came to me while I was watching Ianto's 'I'm much more than [a tea boy/Jack's part time shag]' scene in Captain Jack Harkness. I get the feeling that RTD will twist the knife one more time and it would be just like him to do it in the most painful way to the fans and degrading way to the character as possible. Let's face it when it comes to Ianto RTD seems to really hate that character and his fans. Not that he sees it that way, I'm sure. He did seem to think that people were only upset that Ianto dies because Jack and Ianto didn't have more sex on screen and that we only liked Ianto because Gareth was pretty. Talk about just not getting it.

[aviv-b.livejournal.com]

I don't think he hates the character, he hates the fact that his Mary Sue, Gwen, wasn't universally adored.

[love-jackianto.livejournal.com]

'I don't think he hates the character, he hates the fact that his Mary Sue, Gwen, wasn't universally adored.'
True. I always got the feeling that to him Ianto really was nothing more than tea-boy/Jack's love interest/an obstacle between Jack and Gwen so he could write Resolved Sexual Tension between them. I think that's why the Ianto backlash from CoE took him by surprise; He didn't care about Ianto so he thought no one would. I feel kind of sorry for whichever character becomes more popular than Gwen in series 4.