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Replacing "Shag" with "Screw"
*weeps*
The thing that frustrates me the most about all this, is that I will watch it.
I would have watched a UK based Season 4 sans Ianto without feeling any qualms.
If it does in fact produce episodes in America I will watch it. Very likely with something a kin to fangrrl enthusiasm.
I fear though, that FOX will take all that is good about Tochwood - the relationship stuff (which was weird and complicated and not at all clear cut as to what everyone felt towards one another), the queer sexuality, the dark character arcs (Cyberwoman made people laugh? Seriously?!) and, well, UK sensibility.
Welsh sensibility.
That understated equanimity that comes from being so elegantly arrogant it gets you into tight spots just so you can ingeniously get out of them!
Tell me, did James Bond have to move to the CIA in order to be the coolest man alive?
He did not!
Why does Torchwood, created out of the Doctor's stupidity and hubris, have to move across the pond in order to be "significant" to entertainment?
Yeah, I'm an Anglophile, I fully admit that, perhaps it comes from being a colonialist myself.
Britannica is no less authentic entertainment than Americana.
That, and I hate FOX.
They will make Jack into a womaniser rather than the equal opportunity flirt/shagger that he is!
*stomps foot!*
The thing that frustrates me the most about all this, is that I will watch it.
I would have watched a UK based Season 4 sans Ianto without feeling any qualms.
If it does in fact produce episodes in America I will watch it. Very likely with something a kin to fangrrl enthusiasm.
I fear though, that FOX will take all that is good about Tochwood - the relationship stuff (which was weird and complicated and not at all clear cut as to what everyone felt towards one another), the queer sexuality, the dark character arcs (Cyberwoman made people laugh? Seriously?!) and, well, UK sensibility.
Welsh sensibility.
That understated equanimity that comes from being so elegantly arrogant it gets you into tight spots just so you can ingeniously get out of them!
Tell me, did James Bond have to move to the CIA in order to be the coolest man alive?
He did not!
Why does Torchwood, created out of the Doctor's stupidity and hubris, have to move across the pond in order to be "significant" to entertainment?
Yeah, I'm an Anglophile, I fully admit that, perhaps it comes from being a colonialist myself.
Britannica is no less authentic entertainment than Americana.
That, and I hate FOX.
They will make Jack into a womaniser rather than the equal opportunity flirt/shagger that he is!
*stomps foot!*
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And filming something about UK in the US is weird.
I suppose the only TV-show UK-to-US remake I've seen is Queer as Folk, and I actually like both versions, each in a very different way. I've also seen the last episode of Life on Mars US. Had a good long painful laugh. So I suppose it all depends on the writers and development.
Jack is an omnisexual - WORD!
If they do something to the only one character I've ever seen who I can identify with in a sphere of sexual orientation and aestetic sense, THEN I will really cry. (Because Jack is the only relatively young, good-looking, successful character who showed sexual attraction to not only any gender of species, but also all ages and types of people.)
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Me too. I LOVE this character so much!
I can handwave the "British institution" thing; the British have embassies everywhere, so I can see Torchwood 4 as an international team. James Bond goes everywhere, though he still works for Her Majesty/MI-6. :)
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