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Question about Gwen from Torchwood?
lauranceallen
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now i noticed that Eve Myles played Gwen in Torchwood but also was the character Gwyneth who opened the rift for the gelth in the unquiet dead in Doctor who.
Do you think we are going to see a link between those characters as a possible show. The doctor meets Gwen sees the identical face and goes "but your dead". Maybe Gwen is Gwyneths direct descendent and the gelth return to force her to open the rift void and let them out.
Certainly worth doing in my opinion.
Do you think we are going to see a link between those characters as a possible show. The doctor meets Gwen sees the identical face and goes "but your dead". Maybe Gwen is Gwyneths direct descendent and the gelth return to force her to open the rift void and let them out.
Certainly worth doing in my opinion.
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Nothing wrong with reusing actors/actresses that the crew liked. And they really shouldn't spend time dwelling on the fact, as has been shown with Martha/Adeola when you give the audience a reason for them looking similar, they complain it's not good enough (really, what more were people expecting, they always said it would just be a brief line and not a huge plot point like clones or something), and when you just don't mention it, as with Gwen/Gwyneth, people complain that that's not good enough. There's just no pleasing some people.
And not a single word of this is true.
How do you know! There was always 'the butcher's boy'...and she might have kept it a secret? Could Mr Sneed be that daft to not notice?
Cardiff is the epicentre of plot holes!
Nope, all he was doing was delivering his meat round the tradesman's entrance...
I shall never watch that scene in TUD again without sniggering.
Which part of no crossovers did you not understand? The only link direct link between the two series will be Capt. Jack. I don't suppose the Gelth will ever be mentioned again...
The bits of 'no crossovers' that I didn't understand included
1) The whole Cardiff Rift thing
2) The perceptual anomaly where the Tardis landed, that the Torchwood staff use.
3) The battle of Canary Wharf, referenced several times
4) A Cyberwoman in the basement, and a complete Cyber conversion kit on the premises.
5) Some of Magpie's TVs in Jacks office
6) Toshiko Sato meeting Dr9 in London when she was sent to investigate the pig piloting the Slitheen spaceship
7) The Doctor's severed hand in a jar
8) References to UNIT
9) References to Mr Saxon, who will appear later in S3
10) Torchwood references throughout Dr Who
I'm sure more non-existant crossovers will appear in S3 of Dr Who (considering the finale seems to be based in Cardiff)
and S2 of Torchwood, where at some point, Jack will have to come back, and the Torchwood narrative will need to include whatever events have occurred during the S3 finale.
haha it made me laugh when RTD said 'no crossovers' - do you think he just makes it up as he goes along?
He meant no characters other than Jack will cross back and forth.
Do you think people make up reasons to have a go at RTD as they go along?
Shame the same doesn't apply to Martha/that bird from 'Army of Ghosts'.
Actually that's not true, RTD is on record saying that there would be a hint of a link between Gwyeth and Gwen and it's not just the name, wish I could find the quote but it was just after Eve was announced as the co-star. I'm guessing it'sGwens hint of a psychic ability which manifested more than once through series one of torchwood.
Was in a recent issue of Doctor Who Magazine that RTD said there is absolutely no link between the two characters, he never said there would be a link.
And what hint of psychic ability?!
I'm sure I read the same - I think it was in the Radio Times article back in October last year.
Personally, I'd rather they didn't try to shoehorn explanations as to why character A looks like character B, when they were played by the same person.
Nobody feels the need to explain why the current Doctor looks like Casanova, or why Doctor 5 looked like a vet from 1930's Yorkshire.
RTD wont ignore that - its too obvious
and even if he said there would be no link - so what? he's hardly joss whedon, sticking to what he says..
Whedon does so not stick to what he says. If fact in the up coming comic he trashes something that happened in S5 of Angel, cos he thinks it's funny. Whedon should never be used as a benchmark for continuity or consistancy.
Although I will now use a Btvs example of how even an in-joke, nod to the audience could work in this case. In Fool For Love we saw Cecily. Then the actress came back and played Halfrek. When Spike and Halfrek finally appeared in the same scene she asked if she knew him and started preening. He looked a little embarrassed and said nothing. They could have developed that further but didn't and it stands as a nice nod, and fuel for a few hundred fanfics.