Riffing on the Rift

[shakatany]

The recent appearance of James Marsters on "Torchwood" caused me to take a closer look at "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "TW". It seems to me that TW is the science fiction version of BtVS. Both series have characters who die and return to life. Both series have main characters who are more than human and who have an odd assortment of companions. In both shows strange looking beings emerge through portals and rifts. It actually makes sense that in times past whenever such a being was seen that it would be assumed to be a demon though in fact they might more rightly be called aliens. Is there a difference between aliens and demons or is it just a matter of semantics?

In both verses there exists strange technology. In BtVS we saw the power of the Glove of Myhnegon and in TW there are a couple of so-called resurrection gloves - at least that's what the team uses them for. Both 'verses have creepy little girls - the one in the White Room (if you count AtS *g*) and the one in the TW episode "Dead Man Walking" who also reads tarot cards like Drusilla.

I can just picture the Council of Watchers, upon hearing that a new Hellmouth had opened in Cardiff, go scurrying to off there only to find the Torchwood Institute had already staked a claim to it under royal fiat. If they protested Queen Victoria would undoubtedly have said that she was not amused and would only trust the anomoly to her own people.

And while I'm playing with this, could Captain Jack Harkness be the Immortal who, at some point, could joke that Captain John Hart resembled Spike (or vice versa)? (Or how about the Immortal being Johann Van Der Zee aka John Amsterdam who runs around Rome when he's not in NYC?)

 

One more thing: last night I was channel-hopping and I caught the scene where Will Ferrell's character breaks his leg in "The Producers" which I've never watched before. I decided to stay for the play opening and who did I see belting out "Springtime for Hitler" but a very blond John Barrowman. I had no idea he was in it. If anyone out there has seen it - is he in any earlier scenes?

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[dolnmoon.livejournal.com]

OK this has nothing to do with your post sorry. I read an article in my local New paper about in Iowa they are going to start giving a 5.00 reward to anyone who turns in a stray cat to the local animal services and then the animal will be euthanized. they have a law now that all Feral animals will be euthanized if they are strays. Its so sad.... I just wondered if you had heard of it yet.

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