[ SECRET POST #3398 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3398 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

To be honest that just feels even more like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. Trying to make Jack a more subdued, world-weary character via the immortality thing so the show can shamelessly rip off Angel and Highlander was in itself a pretty dumb move and certainly doesn't play to John Barrowman's strengths. If they wanted to make a dark, procedural-focused Torchwood spin-off fine, but to then include Captain Jack in that makes no sense. A Captain Jack spin-off should be him having lots of rompy space adventures, not brooding on Cardiff rooftops. Torchwood was such a weird, misconceived show.

[(Anonymous)]

That's what happens when you take a pitch for a series you couldn't sell and retool it to feature a popular and established character you don't want in the lead.

[(Anonymous)]

Except of course Jack wasn't really the lead, Gwen Cooper was, which many viewers found deeply confusing.

[(Anonymous)]

I think that was their point.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think they were confused just disappointed.

[(Anonymous)]

What? I haven't heard this? What are you talking about?

[(Anonymous)]

RTD loved Eve Myles and wanted to create a show with her in mind, but had to pitch it as a vehicle for Captain Jack since he was the popular established character and actor.

[(Anonymous)]

Rusty pitched a show called Excalibur which was about a tough female cop who stumbled into a paranormal world. BBC passed. They wanted a Doctor Who spinoff. So he dusted off Excalibur, retooled it to include Jack and a team of alien hunters and sold the show. Problem was, the show was still about Gwen, even when it made no sense to center the story about her.

[(Anonymous)]

I get that he was a long lived immortal, but the bloke never got to have any fun or enjoy anything. It was all doom and killing off grandkids and losing one lover after another. I know some people loved that, but it got pretty tiresome after a while for especially when it seemed almost none of the core characters got to have any fun or enjoy anything. By the time they got to killing off Ianto I figured they were all probably better off dead anyway.