Captain Jack Harkness to the rescue! (sci-fi)
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Rob and I are fanatical fans of BBC America and the Torchwood Series is but one of our favorites.
Captain Jack <–->
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i love torchwood.
i have seen seasons 1 and 2 but i haven't seen the last (3rd) season yet.
I found series 1 and 2 to be hit and miss, partly due to the regular characters Owen and Tosh being irritating and bland respectively. But series 3 - Children of Earth is a superb piece of tv drama.
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I loved this show, so much so that I went into withdrawal between the second and third series. Ianto was the hotness! I love his name, his Welsh accent, his odd-looking head, his sense of humor, his loyalty …. everything about him is sexy :cheesy2:. I agree Owen and Tosh started out as yawners, but as their characters were fleshed out more, I came to sympathize with and even admire them. As time passed, I actually cared less about Jack than the other characters!
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oh, and random fact: Gwen's in those tight jeans captivated me. I mean, I'm gay, but her legs and ass are works of art. :drool:
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Luckily, Torchwood series 4 is in the making:
hxxp://www.bbc.co.uk/torchwood/torchwood_new_series/
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Luckily, Torchwood series 4 is in the making:
hxxp://www.bbc.co.uk/torchwood/torchwood_new_series/
Sounds interesting. The global setting would seem a natural progression after the last series, I doubt they could go back to having them based in a (rebuilt) hub :xpl: in Cardiff
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oh, and random fact: Gwen's in those tight jeans captivated me. I mean, I'm gay, but her legs and ass are works of art. :drool:
You're welcome to Gwen, I'll have her big sexy lump of a husband, in and out his tight jeans
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hxxp://www.examiner.com/sci-fi-in-orlando/torchwood-the-new-world-brings-back-captain-jack-and-gwen-spoilers
Here's a recent update and a bit of new info on Series 4
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Yes - Torchwood is amazing.
There is a very real drop about mid-way through Season Two - but it recovers relatively well.
And the makeout fight between John Barrowman and James Marsters at the beginning of Season Two borders on being porn.
But, the series does pan out well.
The romance between Jack & Ianto is great.
Season Three (a mini-series, called "Children of Earth") is both clever & heart-wrenching.
Season Four is the one that runs on Stars & takes place in America - and get's very sexy & hot.
And, yes, Reese - Gwen's husband - is hot as Hell… Love those chubby guys - and, yes, you do get to see his ass.
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Harkness is immortal and travels freely through space and time, apparently, rather like The Doctor. He is not bisexual so much as pansexual. Men, women, aliens, whatever. Actor/singer John Barrowman is openly gay and has done a documentary on what it is that makes people gay. Very out.
In the series, Capt. Jack's lover is str8, queer only for one man. There's a story where Gwen (?) gets picked up in a bar and the next day says that she doesn't know what her parents would be more horrified by– her having sex with a (non-terrestrial) alien, or having had sex with a woman.
The first couple of seasons could easily have been The Monster of the Week but were much more creative and variable than that. The stories were often very dark, written over a background and personal issue colored with pain and sometimes truly unspeakable suffering. And there are v tender, v moving episodes, as when the Captain travels back in time and meets the doomed soldier -- Jack Harkness -- whose name he later adopts.
Then, although it looked like the series had come to a pretty definite end, the cast was relocated in the US and the show was produced in California. If anything, it got even more grim those last two "seasons," really each a self-contained miniseries.
Fans of Barrowman and his dimple currently can see him as a villainous influence on hunky actor Stephen Amell who plays the title role in "The Arrow." Brother Robbie Amell, who looks a lot like him, is a regular on "The Flash," another comic book story now on the US television machine, Both shows are set in the same "universe" and there have been crossover episodes where characters from one show or the other appear in episodes of the other series.
Only that last paragraph is actually new(ish), but the series is so smart, with such clever and often moving storylines, that I had to chime in to support the original commentary. There may be more gay characters and plotlines in Torchwood than in any other general series on broadcast TV. It ain't QAF, Looking, or Cucumber, but for a show where the gay content is ever present but usually not the point, it sure makes a statement. Also, though it is easy to overlook the significance of such a thing now in these allegedly modern and up-to-date times, but the conspicuous level of homo acceptance and tolerance as just one more natural (I almost said "human," but it can also be inhuman for these guys) phenomena equally present and emotionally valid across space and time.
In a century starting out with Science being jettisoned in favor of Superstition in its most ignorant, bigoted, and maliciously repressive forms, it is good to know that 'twas not ever thus, and that even in Modern Times, there were amazing shows like Torchwood in its various incarnations.
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I love this series
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Captain Jack is back in the new Doctor Who series. :crazy2:
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