John Barrowman Burns up Screen with Torchwood Kiss
Via AfterElton comes this romantic clip from the last episodes of this season's BBC series Torchwood starring John Barrowman, who recently wed his real-life partner Scott Gill in Wales.
Torchwood is a spin-off of the popular series Dr. Who.
While I'm not sure of the plot here since it's only currently playing across the pond, it looks pretty great.
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Wonderful Clip from Torchwood [after elton]
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Posted by: Darren | Jan 3, 2007 8:54:39 AM
The way things go is that BBC will release the DVD when the series finishes (like how they do with the Dr. Who series) and you guys should be able to buy it off the BBC shop website. Get the Dr. Who series 1 (the new one) for Captain Jack/John Barrowman's debut. He appears in a WWII air force uniform which is totally hot :-)
Posted by: Vic | Jan 3, 2007 9:34:03 AM
Fawkes had a write up of the plot
http://www.firefawkes.co.uk/index.php/2007/01/02/whos-that-guy/
Posted by: tim | Jan 3, 2007 9:50:20 AM
This guy is electric on stage and one of the best things to happen to musical theater in decades...masculine and sexy and talented..an amazing voice.....and he CAN act...as an Equity working actor of 32 years I think he rocks and so do most of his working peers....and as an extra bonus he is gay and a decent person...go figure...move over theater queens... it's about time we had some gay theater kings sharing the limelight!
Posted by: Daniel2 | Jan 3, 2007 10:21:59 AM
Ah this is where the sudden jump in my traffic came from!
I'm sorry to say guys but Torchwood will be a big disappointment for you when it crosses the pond. This episode has been about the only decent one in the whole series, and that's mainly helped by the smouldering hot Matt Rippy. How can the team behind some of the best British TV of recent years, Dr Who, produce such trash. It's been great ideas, poorly executed for the whole series.
Hopefully the writers well get their act together now that the show is being "promoted" to BBC2 for the next season.
Posted by: Fawkes | Jan 3, 2007 10:44:18 AM
I tuned out of Torchwood early on because it was basically crap. But tuned in for the finale because there was some pretty good pre-publicity buzz about it.
Definitely the best I've seen. Pretty damn good to watch.
Kudos for not making a big out of it. it wasn't a big 'gay' kiss. it was just a kiss between two people with a lot of emotional baggage.
Is everyone in Wales bi?
x
C
Posted by: Chad | Jan 3, 2007 12:16:28 PM
>> you guys should be able to buy it off the BBC shop website. <<
Guys--You can only do this if you have a region-free DVD player. If you don't *know* if you have a region-free DVD player, then you DON'T have one, and the discs will not play for you.
That said, for those who *do* have region-free players, Torchwood Series 1 vol 1 is currently available.
BTW, I totally agree with the posters who say the show is -- at best -- hit or miss. And when it misses, it misses *hard*.
It's quite derivative of a number of other shows and movies, most notably Angel.
The action is sometimes hokey ("Countrycide"). The sex is often gratuitous. The "Fight Club" episode was horrifically bad.
That said, there were several very good episodes ("Greeks Bearing Gifts," "They Keep Killing Suzie," etc) -- and I haven't seen the final two yet.
My impression is that, by the end of the season, the show was possibly in the process of getting its own head of steam going (rather than subsisting on cheezy rip-offs of other, better shows and movies), which would be for the best.
Posted by: Scott | Jan 3, 2007 1:59:24 PM
ALSO! Even if you DO have a region-free DVD player, your TV has to be able to handle PAL television formatting (we use NTSC over here in the colonies).
Posted by: ohnoes | Jan 4, 2007 1:01:55 AM
Just came back from the UK late last night and saw it. It is a very good series.
Posted by: Gary | Jan 4, 2007 11:41:31 AM
Oh if anyone is interested in watching the series it's available on-line:
http://www.tv-links.co.uk/Torchwood_links.html
So you don't have to wait until Sci-Fi or BBC America show it.
Posted by: Fawkes | Jan 5, 2007 10:42:11 AM
This is an amazing show!! Was never a big Dr Who fan but Torchwood is great!! Plus More Info on John Barrowman !! Kudos to him for not playing his character as a limp wristed queen like they'd expect in the states...
Posted by: alan brickman | Jan 6, 2007 12:48:45 PM
It's a very good series with John Barrowman a great actor...
Posted by: Ron J. | Jan 20, 2007 10:42:19 AM
wow i very like tis part its so romantic
Posted by: perry panda | Jan 21, 2007 7:14:02 AM
If you get the region two dvd's. there are plenty of software programs that will unencrypt region two and allow you to watch the show on your computer.......I just saw the first five episodes that way, and enjoyed them greatly. It is not a great show, but certainly well written and enjoyable....the gets better as it goes along, with the Fairy's at the Bottom of the garden episode the best....
Posted by: Scott | Apr 5, 2007 10:18:49 AM
A decent region-free DVD player will output PAL or NTSC, per your configuration. That's been so, for years now.
And as Fawkes indicates, the show is, disappointingly, crap. Read 'Behind the Sofa', which is a blog portal for shows like Torchwood, related to Dr Who: its reviews of the show are more entertaining than the show itself
Posted by: Mike | Apr 15, 2007 3:48:21 AM
Easily one of the most beautiful, romantic, tragic kisses I've ever seen.
Posted by: God of Biscuits | Sep 5, 2007 1:53:30 AM
See i have a daughter called christine she watchies torchwood when she saw you two kiss she was very glad .because gay means your very very happy. got to go now christine is kissing a stranger.bye kayxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Posted by: KAYBERESFORD | Feb 9, 2008 7:14:06 AM