Torchwood: Miracle Day, First (teaser) Trailer

pixelburp

Nothing to see really, but hey Torchwood needs love too, it can't all be about the Doc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rvtb325viAg

DirtyBollox

doesnt give anything away at all!!!

Coldzone

What the site reveals about the new series

One day, nobody dies. All across the world, nobody dies. And then the next day, and the next, and the next, people keep aging — they get hurt and sick — but they never die. The result: a population boom, overnight.

With all the extra people, resources are finite. It’s said that in four month's time, the human race will cease to be viable. But this can’t be a natural event – someone’s got to be behind it. It’s a race against time as C.I.A. agent Rex Matheson investigates a global conspiracy. The answers lie within an old, secret British institute. As Rex keeps asking “What is Torchwood?", he’s drawn into a world of adventure, and a threat to change what it means to be human, forever.

“Torchwood,” premiering July 8, stars John Barrowman (“Torchwood”, “Desperate Housewives”) as Captain Jack Harkness, Eve Myles (“Torchwood”, “Little Dorrit") as Gwen Cooper, Mekhi Phifer (“ER”, “Lie to Me”) as Rex Matheson and Bill Pullman (While You Were Sleeping, Independence Day) as Oswald Danes.

Doctor DooM

We'll they kept a musical nod to the original series. I like that kind of thing.

BaconZombie

Or full sized version :
[url]HTTP://i.imgur.com/eEb1X.jpg[/url]

allanb49

Newman from Seinfeld is in it too :pac:


Newman.....

Aoifums

I only just see it now and it's been blocked. Damn Off to search for a new one.

popebenny16

if death is not an option why does Jack have a big bloody gun. Guess injury is an option.....

kiddums

Is this a full series of just a mini series? Like the last one?

Daemos

Half way. It's 10 episodes long, but the same format as Series 3 with one story spanning every episode, not 10 stories

Richard Dower

New promo: http://www.spoilertv.com/2011/05/torchwood-episode-401-miracle-day-promo.html

pixelburp

OK, maybe it's just because of the editing of the trailer, but that looks pretty bad. Certainly it seems like they're only paying lip service to Torchwood itself, whilst the rest seems like generic blahm-blahm-CIA-investigates nonsense.

Mr E

Special effects (explosions) look pretty poor too.
Hopefully the story is good - I have my fingers crossed for another Children of Earth, but I'm having doubts now.

ixoy

Hrmm, that trailer has me worried now. It looks very generic without the touch of tongue-in-cheek camp humour that distinguishes Torchwood. Too many things going BOOM. Hopefully it's just something thrown together to appeal to the action-starved as there's some good talent involved in the show.

DirtyBollox

arent they gearing it towards an american audience aswell? could explain as some said the "generic" vid with lots going boom.

BaconZombie

Thats what 99% of ad in the US are like.
Have a look on TVRage.com for an action show and you'll see that same, so hopefully the real show will be a lot better.

michaelpower wrote: »

arent they gearing it towards an american audience aswell? could explain as some said the "generic" vid with lots going boom.

Cyndaquil

pixelburp wrote: »

OK, maybe it's just because of the editing of the trailer, but that looks pretty bad. Certainly it seems like they're only paying lip service to Torchwood itself, whilst the rest seems like generic blahm-blahm-CIA-investigates nonsense.

Maybe they're not playing up the Torchwood angle itself too much in this promo as it's an American promo, trying to get in a new audience who may not be familiar with the show. I suspect the BBC UK promo will play up Jack/Gwen/Rhys etc more as the audience is familiar with them this side of the pond.

I watched most of the previous three seasons so I'll probably give it a chance and see how it goes. Personally though I kind of miss the Season 2 forumula, which struck the balance between "villain of the week" and "overall story arc" fairly well in my opinion.

BaconZombie

aidan_walsh

New (non-embedable) promo video.

pixelburp

Hmm dunno, some of those American characters are a bit grating; dunno why, but I always find it jarring when I hear US accents in a British show (and vice versa) Plus it's not a good sign when John Barrowman's the better actor hehe

Aoifums

Oh dear... I don't like any of the new characters. I was already apprehensive about it as it was but this just makes it look so much worse.

Doctor DooM

Lol. American television. I like how the two female characters are the archetypal ditzy blonde and the bitch. The only semi likeable/human one is Gwen. And even she's been turned into the "mother out for REVENGE!!1!!"

I'm gonna give RTD the benefit of the doubt and hope this is more marketing by pr idiots (tm) because that is a program I would not bother with if I didn't know more about it.

Cyndaquil

Has any clear airdate been given by the BBC yet for this side of the Atlantic? Gettin' a bit close to July now...

aidan_walsh

Think I saw somewhere during the week in passing that they are saying "within 7 days of the US airing".

Den of Geek have a spoiler free review of episode 1.

DirtyBollox

aidan_walsh wrote: »

New (non-embedable) promo video.

just watching that again and when gwen was talking she said "i had a daughter and a husband" would that imply that they died or were taken away as she went on the run?

will watch the first ep with low expectations (the american side and actors from above video are doing nothing for me at all) and hope it is good.

pixelburp

IIRC, there's no firm air date this side of the Atlantic. Goes without saying of course that those who want to see it before then, will find a way hehe.

Daemos

UK airdate confirmed as July 14th, and like Children of Earth there'll be three radio plays on the days before

Gingervitis

New 11 min promo (spoilerish...) with some talking heads thrown in.
Getting more hopeful about this!
http://www.movieweb.com/tv/TVPOb0vXmsQhTS/season-1-first-look

The Mad Hatter

Here's the UK teaser:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va6W2fqgCZo

I sort of gave up on Torchwood after season 1, but I've been told it got better after that. Want to see Children of Earth, but not entirely pushed on the idea of suffering through season 2 to get there...

pixelburp

Not long to go now; Mods, perhaps you should change the title of this thread to reflect it's just the Teaser Trailer anymore? I see I don't have permissions to edit the first post

Ridley

The Mad Hatter wrote: »

I sort of gave up on Torchwood after season 1, but I've been told it got better after that. Want to see Children of Earth, but not entirely pushed on the idea of suffering through season 2 to get there...

Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang
Dead Man Walking
Fragments
Exit Wounds

is probably a watchable abridged series 2 before you get to the good one.

Stark

I thought the vast majority of Season 2 was watchable tbh. I don't remember any particularly painful episodes, of which there were many in Season 1.

Mr.Saturn

the most apt thing i've read/heard about season 2 of torchwood:

"a vast, vast improvement over its first outing, while still not managing to be
very good"

popebenny16

Season 2 was not that bad actually, and they had a great idea for a childrens edit. This wasnt done for Children or Earth nor this one so I will be plagued by the children about this untill whenever Who rematerialises on BBC1. Apparently, episodes five and six are the dark ones, which should be interesting. I always liked the RTD-dake side, and felt that he couldnt show it enough on Who and when he tried it on Children of Earth it was watered down a lot.

I would suppose that the dark episodes relate to what humanity does to itself given that you cannot die, but you can be very much injured.

People wonder where the Doctor is during these things, I posted before about parrellel worlds and stuff, apparently in Ep one they will give a reason why he isnt here, my own theory is that he lets us all blow off a little steam once in and things that happen in Children of Earth and this are fixed points in time that he knows he cannot mess with - like Napoleon or WW2. So he just avoids.

Mr E

Reviews are coming in from lots of critics now. Bit of a mixed bag, tbh.... seems more negative than positive.

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/50299

iguana

When Torchwood returns to television next month, there'll be two different versions of every episode. Some scenes will only be in the US version, while other scenes will only be in the UK version. What's that about?

Doctor Who Magazine editor Tom Spillsbury tweeted yesterday:

Interesting that US Torchwood will have bits UK won't & UK Torchwood will have bits that US won't. So which is the 'proper' version? PANIC!!

And a while later, he added some clarification:

It's to do with the episode timings in the US and what's suitable/unsuitable to be shown on the BBC in the UK. It explains in DWM436 anyway.

Off the top of my head, there's one somewhat racy sex scene in the third episode that I could easily see being trimmed for UK broadcast television. And presumably some of the British in-jokes that no American will get (like the one about lemonade being "fizzy") might find themselves on the cutting-room floor in the US. In any case, when the episodes actually air, we'll do our best to keep track of which scenes are in one version but not the other. It sounds like, overall, the British versions will be the longer cuts because of the refrence to "episode timings."

http://io9.com/5815273/both-the-us-and-uk-versions-of-torchwood-will-have-different-extra-scenes

This is so stupid. Each version will have scenes that the other does not so if you only watch one, no matter which you watch, you will be missing out. My gut says the UK version will be better, as the series in jokes are more likely to be kept in that. But if they are going to cut out scenes due to sex and violence it could end up looking really messy.:mad:

Eta; Just reading the snippets of reviews on Mr E's link and it's making me lean more toward watching the UK version as I wonder if all the suggestions that "something is missing" are referring to the lost Britishness in the US version.

_CreeD_

The premise is great, the script mediocre so far, the soundtrack awful (besides being generally weak it was for the most part inappropriate, I half expected the benny hill theme tune to pop in at some point and to me one of TWs strongpoints has been just how well the audio has worked to add to the atmposphere). Now it's just another cliched half assed US soap-fi (and I live in the states btw) that focuses more on pretty people with perfect teeth, the US being the all powerful center of the universe and big-bang-boom than characters, plot, script and atmosphere. Its is everything I was afraid of from the previews and hoped that those were just simplifications to draw in a new audience...nope...
Mebbe it will get better but a lot of it played out like a parody of every crappy US based action show out there. The trailer scene of Gwen calmly firing a rocket launcher at an approaching helicopter as they all duck a little then look back with perfect hair and makeup sums it up perfectly.

Richard Dower

iguana wrote: »

This is so stupid. Each version will have scenes that the other does not so if you only watch one, no matter which you watch, you will be missing out. My gut says the UK version will be better, as the series in jokes are more likely to be kept in that. But if they are going to cut out scenes due to sex and violence it could end up looking really messy.:mad:

Eta; Just reading the snippets of reviews on Mr E's link and it's making me lean more toward watching the UK version as I wonder if all the suggestions that "something is missing" are referring to the lost Britishness in the US version.

You'll have to watch both, the Starz version will have more sex/violence/swearing.

popebenny16

_CreeD_ wrote: »

The trailer scene of Gwen calmly firing a rocket launcher at an approaching helicopter as they all duck a little then look back with perfect hair and makeup sums it up perfectly.

thats just how Gwen is, roll with it