[Colonol Dekker]

Not even.............................Crime traveller with *swoon* Chloe Annett.

[karajorma]

The difference is budget. The BBC rarely has the money to do something good and when they do they go and waste it on Gormengast or some other rubbish.

I said at the time that if they had 12 million to make a fantasy TV series they should have made The Hobbit. They'd have made a fortune out of that a couple of years later once LotR made Tolkien popular with the masses. Instead they ended up with a white elephant that had such poor ratings that they still haven't bothered to repeat it. 

[Cyker]

I saw this yesterday, thought it was ****.

It feels like bad australian sci-fi, only ****ter.

It is to Dr Who what Crusade was to B5.



I tend to agree with the assessment that the UK is a bit iffy in the Sci Fi department, but hey, each country has their 'thing'.
What we do best usually involves either documentaries, non-sequiters, mind-****s or mocking biting sarcasm

[Ransom]

Um... what Australian sci fi shows have there been?

[aldo_14]

Um... what Australian sci fi shows have there been?

Farscape?

[Cyker]

Man, Farscape's been forgotten already?!  

Then there was that weirdass TV series The Girl from Tomorrow...  

[Ransom]

But we're talking about bad shows. Farscape was awesome.

[Mefustae]

Oh, we've got plenty of bad sci-fi shows. I mean, I can remember a few late afternoon sci-fi shows that was just terrible... although 'Escape from Jupiter' ****ing owned.

[Colonol Dekker]

Oh, we've got plenty of bad sci-fi shows. I mean, I can remember a few late afternoon sci-fi shows that was just terrible... although 'Escape from Jupiter' ****ing owned.

  Like F*ck did it...............

[Bobboau]

the 'poor budget' effects in Who don't distract from the drama, they only serve to make for a sureal atmosphere, once again much like Lexx.

[WMCoolmon]

Hmm, I always assumed that they weren't bad on purpose. Seeing them up against the likes of BSG and Stargate made them seem kinda strained.

[Bobboau]

the old series was bad because they had a poor budget, the new series is bad on purpose, as an homage to the old series.

[aldo_14]

The new series isn't exactly wallowing in cash either; the budget was even cut for the 2nd series.

[Fragrag]

Just saw my first episode of TW, it was nice, but the low budgetness of it all was a bit detracting. And everytime I saw Jack or whatshisname (The leader of TW) I always thought of Captain Malcolm Reynolds, just waiting for his sarcastic line that never came.

[Kie99]

The new series isn't exactly wallowing in cash either; the budget was even cut for the 2nd series.

AFAIK the salaries for the actors were cut, and the money was spent elsewhere.

[Colonol Dekker]

Paying for a p1$$ up in cardiff i imagine........

[Wobble73]

Yay!

I just found out that this is on up the road from me!



Wheeeeeeee!!!!!!

[IPAndrews]

So how is this series going? I have to admit I haven't watched it since episode two. Mainly due to my BBC2 TV reception being ****ty.

[Mefustae]

I've seen up to the fourth ep... and after that I really don't feel like downloading it anymore.

[an0n]

It's dragging.

It's always something about sex....

Countrycide was good on a philosophical level.

But it lacks the sprawling themes of Doctor Who. Right from the outset the Doctor was babbling about the Time War - but with Torchwood, the only recurring theme is that everyone who works there has a serious mental problem of some kind and that Jack can't be killed.