Is Josh Like, Okay?

Eurovision?

In my doctor who season 2 trailer?

More likely than you think.

A vision

I've got a 911/West Wing fusion AU thing floating about in my head is that something literally anyone else would be interested in???

Not being able to hear the audience anymore makes me so sad.

What do you mean I didn't get to hear everyone shouting "CUNT" during Malta's performance.

Devastated.

I aspire to dance like this man

I really hope he gets through to the final

I need Eurovision opinions

I for one am proud to be Estonian for the first time in my life

Mad respect for transcribing this

okay guys I just spent 3 hours transcribing the interview at the end of the Torchwood audio "Serenity" (because I'm nothing if not extra) and have gained even more respect for the people who do this sort of thing for a living. but since I have it figure I might as well give it its own post so that other people can find and enjoy it if they wish.

Also let me know if you would be interested in transcripts of other Torchwood audios or interviews. Because I went looking for some a couple of weeks ago and couldn't find any (which is a damn shame and a bit of a nightmare sometimes) so if other people want them as well I might see what I can do to put them together.

contains spoilers for s2e2 "Sleeper" s3 "Children of Earth" and the audio drama "Serenity"

Scott: Hello my name's Scott Handcock I'm the director of Torchwood at Big Finish and I'm joined this afternoon byyyy

John: John Barrowman

Gareth: Gareth David-Lloyd

James: and James Moran

Scott: Welcome back! John and Gareth, this is the first time you've recorded together for a fewww years now.

Gareth: No we recorded last year!

John:  Yeah but we weren't together.

Gareth: No, we weren't. No we weren't together were we. No.

John: We had a transatlantic relationship.

 Gareth: you, you were by the pool in Palm Springs.

John: I was. I was bi-coastal.

Gareth:  and I was in a Cardiff bus stop. yeah.

John laughing

Scott: Just by Splott Meat Market!

John: Hey, I'd rather be in the Cardiff bus stop!...Not!

Scott:  But, I mean how is it I mean the chemistry between you is great even when you're not in the room. But is it nice to come back and play this stuff...live, as it were?

John: Yeah, I think that the one thing that's really nice about playing Jack, and also I'm sure Gareth, with playing Ianto, we had these characters embedded in our bodies and our souls so much that even I would say captain jacks like putting on a good coat which ironic because he has that great coat but its easy to get back into the characters. we didn't even have to do anything today when we started we just picked up. Its almost like picking up where we left off.

 Gareth: Yeah, its always a pleasure and it much easier when we're in a, in a room together. When were recording, when John's away you can sort of- you can sort of hear John saying the lines because we worked so much together but there's always this sort of  um an extra electricity when we're in the same place recording live.

John: Also the scenes, like the bedroom scenes and making out scenes are much easier to do because ya know hes right here.

Gareth:  yeah. and (unintelligible)

John:  and we really do!

Gareth: yeah.

everyone laughs

Scott: and James, welcome back to torchwood! its uh your first episode since- Children of Earth? is it?

James: It is. Yes. um.

John:  Which was brilliant James!

Gareth:  eh, All thanks to me.

James:  yeah.

John: e-ev, everyb-everybody, and that's the one, funny enough, Children of Earth's is- is the one that everybody says That's like, what- you know... changed their attitude for torchwood.

Scott:  Yeah, James your third episode was the last one that didn't kill Ianto. so um

James laughing

Scott: there you go.

Gareth: Thanks for that James. but um, but. yeah.

James:  But y- But I was in the room and I-I was, I was part of that decision and they, they didn't want to do it but I insisted. (Gareth:  you were, yeah. laughter)I said we've got to get rid of him (Scott: oh you're taking the flak for that now?) I was like no hes awful. awful character. awful actor. lets just end this misery now.

Gareth:  f*ck it I've got a shrine!

everyone laughs

Scott:  but how has it been revisiting the torchwood world an these characters particularly?

 James:  its amazing its just like like putting on sort of your favorite, your favorite outfit again! um its- um- ya know um its been such a long time but I didn't even have to think or sort of remind myself. It was just like I-I know this. I know this universe. I know these people. And I just I c- I couldn't wait to get back into it! and I was just saying in the other room, its such a pleasure to do an audio of this because you can have longer streams of dialogue than you would be able to in a TV episode. Because you've gotta, you've gotta get to things much more quickly and be more economical. um So its nice to just let- have scenes where you can just let things breathe a bit. And and knowing that they're gonna be together in the room, uh together in the booth as, well, not in the same booth that- that'd be weird

 Gareth:well, give it time.

James:  Just knowing that they're gonna be together so that, so that they can riff off each other and it just it just let me kinda have some ridiculous strings of dialogue! Which I'm just,- I'm in the other room, I'm literally laughing at my own jokes like, like a lunatic

Scott: yes.

Gareth laughing

Scott: Yeah, John and Gareth as uh Jack and Ianto you get to play the sort of Happy Couple in this has that been a fun dynamic (Gareth: Yes!) to explore? sending yourself up a bit?

Gareth: Great fun! That's really good fun! Yeah okay, you can, you sort of see, if they did sort of end up together in a- in a perfect world would this sort of be where they'd end up? Um I doubt it. But it is a lot of fun to put them in that sit- to dump them in that situation and let it play out.

 John: As we've been doing this one today I think that- uh and listening to it- I think it would be a great one if it was ever filmed. you know what I mean? (Gareth: mm) its one of those things that visually it would be fantastic also the playing that they do together because you know it uhh...

Gareth: It would be all the little looks and-

John: Well yeah, all the little looks and the stuff and the subtleties. Because actually if you take it, if you think about it, the heightened reality of what torchwood is anyway- um you know there's those little looks and subtleties that happen you know when they're being normal jack and ianto. However this way they're getting i-i-i- its- its more obvious and more in each other's face? rather than on the side or behind each other's back. Does that make any sense? (Gareth: mm) So it it'd be quite fun to do that. But I-I think its fun and the- the visual of uh some of the stuff that's happening. Like I love, at the end, when uh ya know their house is the only one that's not on fire and its "OPE there it goes!" (Gareth chuckles) And that, you know, so its, they're just and the normality. I know this sounds really strange but for the n- the the way that they're treated as normal in the neighborhood. (Gareth: mm) And they're a male couple, is- is also pretty cool, because its uh you know its it shows the the change of times and how, and- and actually then that kind of perfect world- (trails off as Scott starts talking)

Scott: and obviously this is a sequel to the TV story Sleepers

John: Correct.

Gareth: Spoilers!

Scott: What are your memories of filming that epis- and, and writing that episode?

John: that, well that was one of the episodes that was really, for us it was quite a challenge because we were filming it in... Do you remember the name of the military base Gareth?

Gareth: I don't, no.

John: well it was a military base in Wales and it was, uh... we had- we used it quite a few times, but this time in particular all of us had to uh get a little dirty? And also we were doing a lot of running around and it was one of the biggest explosions that we had ever done on the TV show. And I remember it was we were running away, I think it was... were we all running away from the explosion Gareth?

Gareth: Uh I don't- I don't think I was there that day I-

John: No, I think it might've just been Eve and I 

Gareth: I think I was still...hub boy

 James: Lots of explosions! I w- uh they, they liked to say that I spent the whole budget for the series with that one.

Scott: Well, I remember you blew up uhhh a building on Westgate street, (Gareth: a bank) in Cardiff. (James: Yeahh!!)(Gareth: that was incredible!) and it made the news because people assumed it was a terrorist attack.

James: yeah, but that th- that was kind of- that was all a bit overblown. Uh because they did actually tell everyone that they were doing it. And it was planned months in advance so I- I don't think anyone was actually frightened or scared (Gareth: it was it was what the newspapers said) I think the newspapers, it was the newspaper wasn't it, yeah.

John:  But it did bring us extra publicity so we were glad of it!

James: exactly!

Gareth: They went 'Bloody Torchwood!'

everyone laughing

 James: Yeah, I put you through a lot in that. There's uh that amazing circus, you and Eve again, um in the hospital when the windows blow in and you get you get covered in shit.

 John: Yeah! I remember running down the hallway and she, she said to me "what  are we gonna do?" and I said "just stay under my arm and i'll make sure nothing hits you." and it just went and uh we got covered in the glass. For those of you who don't know, in explosions, the glass is not made out of glass. Its made out of either sugar, its called candy glass. But also then when they're doing the explosion and its a close up shot they're throwing rubber glass at you! (Gareth chuckles) So and it gets stuck in your hair. Yeah, that was a good, that was a really good episode! that was, uh pretty awesome.

 James: Yeah and they gave everyone earplugs and I was like "I don't need earplugs! they're air cannons!  They're just gonna go phoo." (John:  NO.) and then they went off and it was like "OH MY GOD!!"

Gareth: BOOM!!

John:  That's why you're uh a l- you know a little hard of hearing now

James: Eh?

everyone laughing

James: Ha ha ha textbook.

Gareth: There you go.

Scott: And finally, just to wrap up, if Jack and Ianto were to live happily ever after, (John: *fake snore*)(Gareth laughing) how do you think it would, what would they do?

Gareth continues laughing

John:  Well I dont mean that in that way!! I'm like i- umff, Of course you're gonna ask that question! (I can't make this phrase out)

Scott: You know, If Jack and Ianto were to live happily ever after how do you think they would go about it?

John: Well listen, I think they would get a dog. what do you think Gareth?

Gareth: I-I- uh I think Ianto would responsibly say we're not having kids as long as we're working for um uh a secret organization that hunts aliens. um

John: but I think Jack  would s- all of the sudden, being that his... as he gets a little more empathetic with things, he would be bringing things home, for instance-

Gareth:  Alien children?

 John:  Alien children. Or things that they had to take care of before they could send back. And so you would have this kind of, menagerie of things in the house that they would have to keep secret. Kind of like if I were to like, ya know, refer to another show there's a- an animated show out there where they, its a couple with two kids living with an alien. you know the one I'm talking about? (Gareth: mhmm) um uh and its uh- so I think it would be, but in a more serious way they would have that kind of relationship.

Gareth: yeah that uh th- its quite a good idea actually! the f- um That'd be quite a good episode! (John: it would!) You know them finding like an alien baby and they have to look after it. And seeing  that sort of domesticity between Jack and Ianto, that's quite good.

John: And the baby would be

Gareth: One for the uh-

John: One for the, No but listen the baby. If it was, the baby could be gender non-specific! so it would be, it w- it wouldn't be male/fe- it would be, I guess you would call it fluid! (Gareth: mhmm!) and how they would have to teach it and it would grow up and they'd have it secretly and privately grow up in their lives!

Gareth: Its getting bigger. The idea's getting bigger now dunno

John: yeah!

James: If, if they- I think if they did end up together like that, and they disbanded torchwood, I think they'd last about two weeks before they started solving crimes in their local area. (everyone laughing) They'd be so, just like, we need some, we need some action! We need some, we need some fun!

John:  I just wanna see an episode with Gareth, w- or, or- uh the visual in my mind, with Gareth pregnant!

James laughing

Scott: On which note, I'll draw this little conversation to close. (John: Thank you!) uh. Thank you all for chatting with me. (John: Always a pleasure!) And thank you listeners for listening.

John:  yeah, Thank you.

Gareth: Thank you. Thank you.

James:  Thank you!

Scott: Byee!!

[inspired by this post]

Simon is backpacking around Europe, a trip he was supposed to take with his boyfriend before it turned out he'd been cheating on Simon for months. To rub his ex's face in what he's missing, Simon asks random strangers to kiss him in front of landmarks. Little does he suspect that one of these strangers will prove to be much harder to forget than than the others.

Holy shit

Holy shit?!?

HOLY SHIT!!!

I am so fucking excited.

The more serious tone? The awesome animation style? That one really big fucked up creature?

This is gonna be so cool.

And just in time for my birthday too!

Guys maybe Jay lost his memory because he didn’t thank Beyoncé for being a ninja?!

Found another torchwood episode with Welsh in it for you! The Grey Mare! Its a horror twist on the Mari Lwyd tradition. One of the main characters of the episode and the Mari Lwyd both use Welsh a few times

Hope you're having a wonderful day!

Thank you so much!