Torchwood Among Us Vol 1 Out Now Spoilers Ok

Behind the Scenes Vid with Producer James Goss

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I really liked this set. Barrowman - and I've said it since way before the "cancellation" is not very good on audio for me, so to focus on the characters BF have built seems not just logical but preferable. So often, a Jack story would take me out of the moment with a line reading that was meant to be comic and comes off angry, or it's epic and comes off flippant. Barrowman's biggest strength as an actor is a charisma that he loses without the visual part of the performance.

I'm not surprise that the series COULD be setting it up as a goodbye to Eve Myles. I'm sure we all remember her infamous night of Tweeting that BF wasn't the same and she'd never play Gwen again. Add that to her general lack of availability and yeah..I'd be looking to use what value she has as a really big sendoff for the character in the linear timeline. They can always do standalone stories with her if the chance arises - being dead years before BF got the licence never stopped Owen, Tosh and Ianto!

Well, I'm the source, as are others, because....I saw it and we discussed it on the forum in real time! Like her recording dates for this set, it wasn't recently! At a guess? 6 years back? But since her parts for this set were recorded 4 years back - it's not as big a gap as that sounds. BF wouldn't answer queries on her involvement and all of a sudden a new Gwen story was announced. She was back! Then...she wasn't because of the "re-cast" in the early "Among Us.." sets. So I'd understand entirely if they wanted an "end" for her...then could always revisit as and when she was available. Nobody wants a disaster like Dark Eyes 4 again where Ruth Bradley was booked up but they couldn't reschedule so Molly had to be - for the culmination of her whole story - recast with a very clunky exposition.

Anyone else able to narrow it down to when this was? 

It was like 2016 when she said she was done playing Gwen then did more recordings after. Eve Myles is brilliant and im really glad shes done so much BF now, Blind Terror is excellent.

Yes, I didn't want to add the drunk weekebd part in case that was mis-remembering, I can't recall if she said that herself or it was something at a con etc. It was radio silence from BF afterwards (and..6 years back that was a BIT rarer, now we expect it!) and it was only when the next Gwen standalone came out that it appeared she'd changed her mind. Then when what was being promoted as, essentially, TW Series 5 with Aliens Among Us came out and Gwen was..Ng, it fuelled all sorts of speculation once more. 

And not unjust speculation either - Eve said audio wasn't really her thing, the draw was seeing the old gang and that didn't happen recording separately, that the (rumoured but she kinda confirmed) failed pitch to Netflix for a new series of Torchwood kinda soured her on the whole show. It wasn't personal against BF, even that weekend as she made clear.  I want to say she was interested in midwifery and was talking about leaving acting altogether? She's obviously done quite a bit since but since it seems she's the least likely of the cast to want to return consistentl and which, if she was talking about doing so - even when sloshed - 6 years back then hasn't recorded in 3 years? Giving her an end makes sense. Gives Eve something to play, a real Gwen arc. Also gives BF that end point too if Eve does decide she's done. The entire premise of the show was that working for Torchwood is a death sentence with Jack being the contrast to it, watching generations come and die only to start again. BF have played about with that from all sorts of eras.   

If BF have shown one thing, they can do Torchwood well without the stars. That said the TV show was always a Gwen show, Jack was the support but Eve had the arcs and handled all the heavy lifting. So she would be a bigger loss than Jack but hey - some of the most loved TW characters are ones we never heard of before BF did their thing. 

I've been speculating like mad this afternoon on who this mystery guest star in the most bonkers Torchwood episode might be. Someone who my generation will be amazed is in it. Someone who is up there with the Michael Palin casting. Someone who the younger generations might not know. And someone who on the day of recording left the production crew a little starstruck.

So...pure speculation on my part...Penelope Keith...(The Good Life, To The Manor Born).

And if it is not her...I have at least another fifteen possible candidates...😁

Funnily enough Joan Collins is on my list as well as Linda Gray (Sue Ellen Ewing), though admittedly more towards the "wishful thinking, ain't gonna happen" end of it..😁

I’m planning to do one episode a week. Ideally Saturday, but didn’t get around to episode 1 till today.

So Aliens Next Door. A quietly sinister opener which also doesn’t waste anytime getting the new arc in place. Orr and Ng makes an odd mix but works well, and Orr continues to be the most interesting character of the continuation era. All in all a promising start.

You can but you'll need to concentrate especially for the 1st story.

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