Torchwood, Season 1 (Speculation and Spoilers thread).

15:06 / 15.10.06

Oh, that I knew. I'm sure something along the lines of "Since you have already seen alien technology, we have a position you might be very interested in...." will be used for her appearance.

00:17 / 17.10.06

Spoiler-cum-tease alert!

Oh, Kali, Doctor Dave has a bit-part in Torchwood Ep2.

iamus

00:54 / 17.10.06

cube, cube, cube.....

Doing the spoiler thing and Kalibaiting?

Jo Frost is very displeased with you.

08:43 / 17.10.06

More bait than spoiler, actually. Took me long time to notice it myself. Don't tell nanny.

invisible_al

09:52 / 17.10.06

I like the typography of the Torchwood logo....I'll get my coat

13:20 / 17.10.06

*gasp*

Tennant in episode 2???

I feel...I feel...I feel so fucking jealous.

adamswish

15:25 / 17.10.06

Slightly spoilery, but not really (honest)...

Technically, according to this weeks Radio Times, David Tennant is in every episode of Torchwood, or at least part of him is...

Is he the fit one?

Again, spoilery:

The part of The Doctor that's in every episode of Torchwood is going to be his decapitated hand, isn't it?

15:46 / 17.10.06

Or the hand equivalent of decapitation.

Amputated hand, I suppose.

Triplets

16:11 / 17.10.06

It wasn't really amputated though, that suggests forethought or it being a medical necessity. Did the guy with the big scapel look like a doctor?

Severed hand?

Dehanditation.

16:47 / 17.10.06

(weeps gently)

penitentvandal

19:29 / 17.10.06

Demanitation, surely?

08:58 / 18.10.06

Thank goodness that his lustrous locks survived the scalpel of the Sycorax, eh Kali?

On a more on-topic note, tonight on the Colin Murray Show which starts at 10:30pm on Radio 1, there's apparently going to be a piece on Torchwood presented by Eve Myles. Might be worth tuning in on the internet, for those outside the UK interested in hearing it.

09:32 / 18.10.06

I am a bit annoyed that Radio Times saw fit to spoil something that took me two watches of ep2 to work out.
Head might have been better: "This is a fighting head!" [Blackburn Kiss]

adamswish

10:52 / 18.10.06

but to be fair cube you have seen both episodes a good few days before the rest of us (personally I'm going to have to wait until Wednesday of next week unless I can convince my girlfriend I have to go home sunday for something really important) so my sympathy is slightly lacking for you mate.

11:44 / 18.10.06

my sympathy is slightly lacking for you mate.

Yeah, I know. The curse of being a smug bastard returns to bit me on the bum once more.

13:03 / 18.10.06

Kinda creepy that Torchwood has the Doctor's hand. Begs the question: how did they acquire it?

Triplets

17:19 / 18.10.06

Lost and Found?

It fell off the ship, innit.

17:37 / 18.10.06

I suppose it must have. But that's one hell of a system: "Found a disembodied hand? Please place in post to this address."

Triplets

18:21 / 18.10.06

Fanwank: Someone handed (oh ho) it into the police, when they tried to do a DNA match it flagged the police's Torchwood spyware. Agents alerted. Hand retrieved. But that's boring.

We could have a pulpy episode where Our Agents delve into London's E.T. underground where alien tech and body bits are bought and sold like dodgy dvd players. Soon they come under the vile scrutiny of Faceless Sultan.

THE CASE OF THE MYSTERY, PART 3 (OF 1)!

sleazenation

18:32 / 18.10.06

Oh great, now we have a hand of glory in the Torchwood Dr Who universe...

19:06 / 18.10.06

Hey, at least the Hand of Glory is the Doctor's. That's gotta count for some serious mojo.

19:48 / 19.10.06

Aw, fancy Doctor and Martha.

Or just fancy Martha.

Whisky Priestess

09:13 / 20.10.06

She looks unbelievably stiff and uncomfortable in that picture. What is it, a Vogue shoot?

Rev. Orr

13:49 / 21.10.06

No, she's just sat down on the Doctor's hand.

Just please tell me that it isn't animated and running around the lab a la 'thing' or 'The Evil Dead'. On the other hand, the second season cross-over where Ten and the hand end end drowning their sorrows in tequila shots and flashing back to temps perdu will rock mightily.

14:35 / 21.10.06

Torchwood is probably experimenting with its regenerative properties so it stands to reason that it's in a vat of some sort filled with a fluorescent viscous fluid.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

17:27 / 21.10.06

Surely their experiments with the regenerative properties of the hand will be fruitless. All of the regeneration energy wears off after the first few hours, after all. It's now an ex-hand. It has ceased to be, etc etc.

The hype for this is starting to become ridiculous. BBC News are even giving it spots on their 24 hour news Network, continuing the questionable trend where they use their news broadcasts as advertisements for other BBC products.

Not that I mind the hype when it's related to Doctor Who.

18:01 / 21.10.06

I should point out to anyone who hasn't noticed aready there's a 'Torchwood De-Classified' which looks a bit like it might be a 'Doctor Who Confidential' after the late night repeats.

sleazenation

19:10 / 21.10.06

I can top that - I was at the cinema the other day and amongst the adverts was a trailer for Torchwood, so even before the first episode has even hit, I got to see Torchwood on the silver screen...

Feverfew

21:24 / 21.10.06

Same here with the silver screen.

There was an interview on the Jonathan Ross Radio 2 show today that I happened to catch, which was notable for it's discussion of, firstly, bi/omni-sexuality (although you can guess what that was like with Ross), and, interestingly, Ross posited the idea that RTD may have named Captain Jack Harkness after (or after the fashion of) Agatha Harkness, late of the Fantastic Four, and tutor (I believe) to Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch.

Your Man Himself wouldn't be drawn, but did say there's an origin episode for him in the Torchwood run (they're filming the final two at the moment, apparently) but, well, interesting?

14:07 / 08.11.06

Oh, gosh. Hire PJ Hammond as the full-time writer, quick, and ditch the entire crew except Jack right now. They are officially superfluous.

16:15 / 08.11.06

As this is the spoilers and speculation thread, here are two tidbits that RTD recently revealed in the latest issue of Starburst.

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miss wonderstarr

16:51 / 08.11.06

Gwen's already got off with two people this season behind her boyfriend's back, so ... nothing kinda ooh there, really.