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Torching the Silver Screen!
Scientifiction enthusiasts, rejoice — you’ll soon have a chance to enjoy a favorite program as never before. The Torchwood Project, the popular British spin-off of long-running serial Doctor Who, Time Traveller, will create a special new episode this summer to keep fans entertained between its second and third seasons. But rather than tuning in on your radio, you’ll have to head down to your local picture house to catch this one!
That’s right: The entire cast of the The Torchwood Project, including Mr. John Barrowman as the devilishly merry confirmed bachelor Captain Jack Harkness, will reprise their roles for a special filmed production to be screened exclusively in theaters, first in Britain and presumably later here in the U.S. of A. The production will entangle Captain Harkness and his team of lovelorn paranormal sleuths with a sophisticated new atom-smashing device, much like the one our friends in Switzerland will open in real life this summer. (If God truly is a watchmaker, as Mr. Einstein said, who better than the Swiss to build a great big atomic cuckoo clock?)
Part of us is excited at the thought of actually seeing these roguish, lovable characters in action. Perhaps we’ll finally understand why the handsome Captain Harkness, who always gets his man in the end, never quite manages to get the girl as well. But we’re also somewhat anxious that the production will appear silly in visual form. Despite the picture business’s many fine advancements in the field of photographic effects, who among us would ever willingly choose them over the limitless vistas of our own imaginations?