Comments on: Transatlantic Torchwood: Everything Changes? http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2011/07/15/transatlantic-torchwood-everything-changes/ Responses to Media and Culture Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:35:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 By: Melissa Beattie http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2011/07/15/transatlantic-torchwood-everything-changes/comment-page-1/#comment-99104 Sun, 17 Jul 2011 14:45:08 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=10011#comment-99104 What interested me is the shooting style; I’ve sort of pinned it down as cod-US-medical-drama with some intertexts to 2 particular ones that also have Anglo-American associations, namely House (Rex had a crutch initially when he was downing painkillers from the bottle) and ER (shooting style especially when Rex is brought in, plus of course Mekhi Phifer was in it I think concurrently with Alex Kingston). The chopper shots of Wales are also similar to a popular travelogue of the UK that airs on PBS (bastion of British Quality tv in the US) which was called ‘Visions of…’ and there were Welsh, English, Scottish and Irish iterations.

(Also, there’s stuff for you to build on with regard to this in ep 2, though I won’t spoil it. I’m nicking a line to use as a subchapter heading, however– you’ll know the one).

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