(2.08) The Dark Age // Written by: Dean Batali & Rob DesHotel

i HAVE seen it and i love it so much that i did a series of 3 long write-ups (really just me flailing) here

i definitely agree with you - i love seeing baby!tams in the episode itself, but i do think (even though it would mean no river in the flashbacks :( ) but i do actually think the original flashback of the their parents wanting to celebrate simon's graduation and impending internship and simon already worrying after river would have served the story a little more.

it also feels MUCH more blatant to me that gabriel and regan by that second flashback in particur have figured it out too and are either in denial but either way they are much more blatantly trying to confuse simon (and it was pretty blatant in the episode to begin with!). i wrote in that post i think that part of me is glad it's not the final version even though it would have been great because it was a Lot. there's a point where the stage directions make it clear simon's deliberately trying to calm himself down and speak calmly and clearly so they'll take him seriously and OOF i felt that.

the last one in partiucular is interesting because the setting is different and a lot of the dialogue is different but we get a lot of the same emotional beats but like. More too. like i'll never be over the fact that until this point it seems like simon truly believed (or wanted to) that his parents would come around. and "you had rooms to fill. you used like furniture" WOUNDS me on the daily.

He’s been mentioned twice, ever. The first time is in the big finish audio ‘Torchwood_cascade_CDRIP.tor’ when the virus accused Tosh of abandoning him which properly pissed her off.

The second time was in a deleted scene in ‘Captain Jack Harkness’ (thank you shooting scripts) where she is talking Tim. She asks how old he is and he says 18. Tosh responds by saying ‘same age as my little brother… I hardly ever see him.’

What we can work out from this is that Tosh’s brother was born around 1989/1990 and, seeing as the audio is set before Gwen joined torchwood, we know he died before then. On the wiki, it says he died before Tosh joined Torchwood. Even though, unless I’m misinterpreting it, the CJH deleted scene makes it seem like he’s still alive.

That is literally every piece of information on Tosh’s brother that we have though. I don’t know why I actually care but the shooting scripts have made me realise how many things were cut that could’ve led to these great storylines. I think they need to utilise the character in some way.

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury and Richard Matheson (NBC, 1978). Very Fine+. Television Shooting Scripts (3) (Multiple Pages, 8.75" X 11").

Featured for the first time at Heritage are all three original shooting scripts for the television miniseries adaptation of Ray Bradbury's episodic sci-fi novel, The Martian Chronicles. Using a more linear narrative format than the book, the show starred Rock Hudson as Colonel John Wilder, joined by Gayle Hunnicut, Bernie Casey, Christopher Connelly, Roddy McDowall, and Bernadette Peters. The scripts come in bradded studio covers, each in a different color* and with a dramatic illustration** of Bradbury's Martians on the front.

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*notice the RGB color model