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

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Then in the next breath he goes on about having Eve on "Go Wales." So we stupid Yanks can only appreciate a character with a foreign accent if we have an American accent to balance it out??

I'm not sure where Rusty stands on Jack. I think he knows he needs Jack to get a decent audience, but I'm not sure how far he's willing to go to make Gwen the shining star.

But I gotta tell you, as a die-hard Captain Jack fan, I DESPISED him by the end of Episode 5 of CoE. He was careless, clueless, and cowardly IMHO. I felt like S1 & S2 were 'this is Captain Jack' and CoE was 'this is Captain Jack on drugs.'

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So we stupid Yanks can only appreciate a character with a foreign accent if we have an American accent to balance it out??

that's definitely possible. also, if all the other actors are american/using american accents, it'll make her stand out more so more people will appreciate her brilliance whereas when it was set in wales, there was ianto with another welsh accent, and they were surrounded by people with welsh accents (rhys, andy etc) so owen, tosh and jack were the ones who stood out more.

But I gotta tell you, as a die-hard Captain Jack fan, I DESPISED him by the end of Episode 5 of CoE. He was careless, clueless, and cowardly IMHO.

i wouldnt go quite that far but i do agree he was written to be more colder towards ianto especially and maybe that was down to rtd wanting to show how brilliant gwen was? however, i am mature enough to know everyone has differnt opinions and i respect that unlike some people (rtd) :P

however, i do agree jack was a lot better in s1 and 2 as there was so much more life to him and rtd for whatever reason wrote him badly in s3 so that he came across that way:( i just hope that in 'keeping with canon' they write him like the s1 and 2 jack that we all knew and loved as opposed to the colder jack in s3:(