You only *think* you know all the possible innuendo.

[burntcopper]

As all good Torchwood fans know, the culture and innuendo-starved colonialists are being legally* exposed to Torchwood for the good of their Harkness-less souls. They've just had They Keep Killing Suzie, aka a fabulously written ep which also has the somewhat infamous line about what you can do with seemingly innocent timepieces, aka the yell of slashers going 'SEE? WE TOLD YOU SO! THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS SUBTEXT WHEN THERE IS HARKNESS!'

*ie, actually broadcast on a tv signal they can get by paying through the nose for it, as opposed to download.

Ahem. Anyway. BBC America, like all good websites run by geeks, have added extra web content per ep - the Captain's Log, which has things like staff issues, rift monitor, alien activity, etc. And you know how we all thought you couldn't put more innuendo into the stopwatch issue than we already had? Oh, BBC America web team, you've done us proud. Look under 'Other Staff Issues and Upcoming Issues'. Please do not have a drink in your mouth, because your screen may suffer. Jack, seriously, how the hell do you *do* that?

Also, I want a t-shirt with Magically Fabulous on it.

And Kane? We love you so much, we really do. Listening to their live album recorded at a Starfury convention and glorying in their fabulousness as a live band. I'm really getting to that point where I prefer live renditions of songs to anything studio-done due to that whole musicals addiction factor*, where you narrow your eyes at popsters and go 'riiiiiiight. And how much of that is your actual voice and how much is that stupid vocal tricks disguising that your voice isn't actually that strong?' to that point where I listen to this, the new recording of Being Alive by JB on his not-yet out album Another Side - not the greatest sound quality, admittedly, due to it being off the BBC's Listen Again website - and start muttering about it not being nearly as good as the Kennedy Centre Company performance (WMA file, sorry) or any of his live concerts I've been at due to over-orchestration and not having that raw live quality. (understand that 'raw live quality' for John also automatically includes 'trying to restrain from giggle fits', crying with emotion, fluffing up any autocues that may be near him, and other issues...)

*part and parcel of this is the increase in your music collection of 'this wasn't recorded on a smuggled-in mp3 player, honest'

ooo, almost forgot, to file under 'new phrases coined at pubmeet' : Get Off My Biscuit.

We were contemplating seeing what would happen if we printed it up on t-shirts, wore it at conventions, to see if the phrase would spread to the point where people who had *no idea* of the original context would wear/use it. Like unto 'The goggles! They do nothing!' and 'I'll be in my bunk'. We've seen this happen with bloody dance moves, for christ's sake - certain moves you may know from such dances as YMCA and thought were bog-standard? They were invented at a convention. No, we're not telling you which moves.

Comments

[randomeliza.livejournal.com]

Four hours and a broken stopwatch... wow. What can't Jack Harkness do?

Seriously, I'm trying to picture how it would work and... I'm just getting such wonderful mental images my brain is shorting out.

I WANT NEW TORCHWOOD DAMMIT.

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

the brain, it has shorted out. the fact that they *broke* the damn stopwatch through either a) accident or b) over-use...

...I'm sorry, please to call back later when brain may have recovered.

[silkess.livejournal.com]

Lol, he excels at fluffing his autocue - it's incredibly endearing and now expected!

[tirinar.livejournal.com]

If you haven't already bought one, consider a magically fabulous Tshirt on its way to you as a thank you for essay assistance!

And I cracked the Dali thing with the rose. :)

[eruvadhril.livejournal.com]

I really, really want to know what it is they do with the stopwatch.

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

well, to quote someone's hubbie on torch_wood at the time of airing, either they're timing things with it or coating it in lube and shoving it in orifices.

(someone once did write a fic of all the things you can do with a stopwatch that don't involve sex - one was using it as the fuse for a bomb. wheee!)