Danny Stewart

I had a wonderful experience two weekends ago attending TimeGate 2010 in Atlanta, GA. Truth be told, the main reason I attended the convention was because it was the first North American convention appearance of my friend and mentor Dominic Glynn. But the convention was a great success and I had a lot of fun there.

Upon arriving there Friday evening, I called Dom and we went out for drinks. We had a lovely time catching up. As we were discussing the convention schedule, I mentioned the Doctor Who music panel on Sunday. The program billed it as “Dominic Glynn and a panel of enthusiasts,” and I joked to Dom about it. “Enthusiasts? Why am I not on it?” Dom, ever gracious, thought that was a perfectly legitimate suggestion, and said that he would pull some strings with the hosts at the convention to get me on it.
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I just posted a new article for Eye of Harmony called “Live Fast and Prosper: How Stargate’s Impulsiveness Could Kill the Franchise.”

In it, I discuss the impulsiveness and attention deficit problem of the producers behind the Stargate franchise, and some of the missteps I feel they’ve made. Please take a look if you’re interested.

I came to a new realization about the Stargate franchise this morning that I wanted to share, primarily after reading a new interview with Joe Flanigan (John Sheppard on Stargate Atlantis) on GateWorld. It seems so clear that I’m surprised I never fully connected the dots before now: the producers of the Stargate franchise have become spoiled and impulsive, and sooner or later it may be the death of the franchise.

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I’ve spent the past seven hours writing up a long and very in-depth review of Torchwood: Children of Earth. Please head over to Eye of Harmony and read it if you have a chance!

The latest Torchwood offering, Children of Earth, has been something of a mixed bag. In typical Russell T Davies fashion, the main story involves a catastrophic event affecting the entire world all at once, which is directly witnessed by virtually everyone in the world. Gone are the small scale stories of old; as RTD is so fond of pointing out, no one in this day and age could possibly care about a story unless it strikes close to home, right? In this case, all the children of the world begin speaking a single message: “we are coming.”

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