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25 07 2008

Comic-Con ‘08 Report: Torchwood Panel

Posted by: Ducky in Comic-Con, Doctor Who, Ducky Does TV, Torchwood

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The Torchwood panel was one of the funniest and raunchiest panels I’ve ever witnessed. You can totally tell that the cast is just enamored with each other and that it truly killed them to lose Tosh and Owen at the end of Season 2.

As previously mentioned in my Doctor Who recap, Barrowman had to make an entrance and it was hilarious! He mounted the table like a total rock star and when co-star Gareth David-Lloyd walked out, he grabbed him and they totally made out. It was hilarious and hot and just simply perfect. When Naoko Mori entered (to huge fanfare) he made out with her too! Capt. Jack to the end!

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Barrowman was a total rockstar on stage and he owned that panel. If he wasn’t touching Gareth non-stop he was threatening the sound engineers for turning down his mic when they should know he’s got a comment for everything or making taking every opportunity to throw in some sexual innuendo. Those are some dirty birds (not pterodactyls) those Torchwood kids.

  • Barrowman’s family were in the audience including his parents, niece and Partner which was damn-dorable.
  • He pimped his book a couple times which, why the frak not? He did his best Rosie doing an impression impression which was sooo not right (but brilliant just the same).
  • He kept telling the crowd that Gareth looked amazing naked and was “big.” He said that their naked hide and seek scene led to Gareth accidentally sticking his hand down John’s pants. Deleted scenes please?
  • He told us how he freaked out when he finally read that he was in fact The Face of Boe and how it changed the dynamic between The Doctor and Capt. Jack.
  • They discussed their theories about Capt. Jack being buried alive for 2000 years and how he survived. In Barrowman’s mind, he put himself into a trance knowing that someone someday would eventually find him. Seeing how he can’t die, did he really have a choice?
  • They talked about how Season 3 will only be 5 episodes long with one huge story involving a big event early on that pushes the Torchwood gang into new territory. A lot will change for Torchwood
  • Season 3 begins shooting in 4 weeks!
  • Season 3 takes place after the events of the Doctor Who Series 4 finale and will feature more with Mr. Hot ASs Ianto Jones!
  • Barrowman would be up for auditioning for the role of Captain America if it presented itself to which the audience went batshit.
  • They gave huge props to Freema Agyeman for being able to fit in with the cast, the life of the show and for just being plain awesome for having a pre-existing relationship with Jack which in turn both infuriated and energized the cast.

    • Well aside from the making out and talking about reaching down each others pants, it was fun to see the entire group rip on each other. Remember how I said that it was a pretty dirty panel?

    Read some of my favorite comments and moments after the jump…
    Torchwood Comic-Con 2008 (1)

  • Barrowman called Tosh a “total alien dyke.”
  • Ianto’s hung like a horse
  • Barrowman and David-Lloyd were worried about their naked scene and their back fat.
  • Barrowman: “There’s a lot of John Barrowman in Captain Jack…”
    “David-Lloyd: “There’s a lot of Ianto in there too”
  • Each cast member has pet names for their naughty bits .

    • If given the choice in F, Marry, Kill who would Barrowman choose and why? He’d kill Tosh because she’s already dead; he’d frak Exe. Prod. Julie Gardner and he’d marry Gareth.

  • Numerous jokes alluded to the microphone as a sexual object and each person there afer played it up, some even going as far as to say that they’re going down on the panelists.

    • Toward the end of the session, they played a featurette showcasing each of the Torchwood characters and that sadly included the deaths of Owen and Tosh. After the clip reel, the lights came up to reveal both Barrowman and Mori with tears in their eyes. It was sweet.

    Torchwood Comic-Con 2008 (2)

    Did you know that this was the 2nd time Mori died in Barrowman’s arms (professionally)? Sho ’nuff they were the leads in Miss Saigon years ago. Here’s a video of them trying to do a duet (video coming soon).

    The panel was great, the panelists amazing and this one is going to be hard to top. The best news was that just this morning a deal was struck with BBC America to air Series 3 in 2009! It will air in the Spring in the UK and very shortly thereafter here in the US!

    That’s what she said…

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