Cranky Liz spam!

[lizbee]

I got home from work, and somehow it was like INSTA!BAD MOOD! Usually it's the other way around. But I sat down, and suddenly today's stomach cramps turned into hiccups, and then there was the casting call for the new Torchwood characters, and that was like RTD had sat down to create the maximum amount of fail possible. So no good mood for Liz! Maybe I'll feel better after I've had a shower and a glass of wine*.

In the meantime, let's all admire RTD's casting call. The new characters on Torchwood are:

- asshole white guy
- woman of colour who unrequitedly loves asshole white guy
- Roman Polanski





Things which don't seem to upset belly: lighter red wines, smoked salmon and marscapone pizza, strawberry and lime cider, frozen spaghetti bolognese, Arnotts Country Cheese crackers, raspberry and orange juice. Things which do upset belly: EVERYTHING ELSE.

Comments

[such_heights]

Oh god what. D:

[innerbrat]

There are two races. Caucasian and not caucasian!

[gavagai]

Here via network...oh dear. I would like to say something more severe than oh dear but yeah, nothing's coming. If it's not a hoax. Definitely not a hoax? Though if so, aww, they made it all convincing fitting in RTD's inability to think of names for his characters that aren't 'Jones'.

I hope Martha and Mickey fuck their omgsoHARDandDANGEROUSandEDGY shit up.

[aryas_zehral]

So an Owen and a Tosh then but American? I'm not even gonna touch the Polanski guy. Perhaps I'll just not watch.

[prof_pangaea]

THIS CANNOT BE REAL.

...can it? D:

[lizbee]

I wondered, but it looks like every other casting call I've ever seen, and features RTD's characteristic approach to exclamation marks.

[evilgeniuslady]

I'll freely admit I expected the Owen and Tosh/Martha-retread. But Roman Polanski??? Wtf is wrong with Rusty's head that he'd think this was a good thing? Couldn't he "just" make him a murderer instead of a pedophile? How did the production company sign off on this? Oh god. Rusty's turning into Anne "I will have no editors tell me what to do" Rice, isn't he?

[evilgeniuslady]

Oh and doesn't Rex seem eerily like Ten? Can Rusty even write other main characters at this point???

[owl]

So much fail. Where to even start???

[infiniteviking]

UH

WHAT

*HEADDESK*

[rimwalker.livejournal.com]

................WHAT.

That man needs to be stopped.

[yunitsa]

I'm highly unlikely to watch whatever series of Torchwood results from this, but to be fair, every casting call I've ever seen has sounded that weird - it seems to be some secret industry way of getting the pool of actors they want for the part. I remember the one for Gwen from Merlin specified that she wore glasses?

[doyle]

That wasn't the casting call, it was the synopsis of the series on the website of (I think) SyFy after series 1, when the show started airing in America (apparently written by someone who'd never actually seen it)

[hope]

OH FFS

[renae.myopenid.com]

Strawberry and lime cider? Oh please enlighten me on what that is because it sounds yummy! Sorry to hear your belly is still playing up.

[lizbee]

It tasted like strawberry lemonade! I'm not sure where piecesofalice found it, but I imagine a boutique bottleshop could help you out.

[karnythia]

Why must you make me cry?

[lizbee]

I only report the news, ma'am. Here is a picture of a nomcat as compensation:

[sol_se]

What the fuck is this casting??? Argh no! D:

(Hey, remember the April Fools joke casting? It's sad that that was *better*.)

[be_themoon]

there was April Fool's joke casting? I did not hear about this!

[ranrata]

Ack, and I was looking forward to this =(

[purple_smurf]

Now I need wine.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

oh my god. I.

I can't even.

:(

someone please tell me this is a joke. otoh, I hate to think what Tosh and Owen's sides were.

[cereta]

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Nope, I got nothin'.

[silverhare]

Asshole white guy - series regular!
WOC - um, might appear in many of the episodes.
Roman Polanski - white guy, has DESTINY on his side, probably going to end up being the messiah.

Why. What. Why. WTFUCKERY.

[nonelvis]

WHY? WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY?

[eve11]

Bah. Also after seeing the fail that was "American characters" in The Last of the Time Lords, I have little faith that Rusty can get beyond that stereotype either.

[tree_and_leaf]

SO MUCH FAIL

[softestbullet]

One day, the unrepentant pedophile will lose control of his boiling lust.

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WHY WOULD YOU PUT THAT IN A TV SHOW WHY WHY

[lilacsigil]

~*~*~*~SO EDGY~*~*~*~

(and why "edgy" always means "copying the behaviour of real world douchebags who hurt real world people" I don't know)

[sohotrightnow]

D:

[akashasheiress]

I am shocked. Shocked.