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Sep. 27th, 2008 01:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sebastienneI'm currently working on a fic involving 1970s Torchwood. Based on the fact that Torchwood reflects the Doctor Who of the time and the crime dramas of the time, I've been watching 1970s British crime dramas in the name of research.
Doomwatch, which I started to watch this morning, is particularly interesting. Similar to Doctor Who episodes of the time like "The Green Death", it focuses on the idea that governments and corporations are carrying out reckless science which is endangering the whole world. The organisation combatting this is run by a scientist whose work contributed to Hiroshima/Nagasaki, and large prints of mushroom clouds dominate his office as if to say, "never again".
Today: biological agents that destroy plastics, developed for waste disposal, causing air crashes. Evil governmental ministers, retro computing, pretty young men with immensely 1970s haircuts, rather unreconstructed attitudes to women (Life on Mars? Not exaggerating.) I am really enjoying myself!
An aside: my 1970s Torchwood crew is likely to contain an ex-actor called Marwood who has a mysterious past and an uncanny sense of intuition where alien activity is concerned. He has a note in his pocket that says merely, "Meet me in St. Louis', 8 February 2001. Fitz". He becomes increasingly convinced that this "Fitz" person, of whom he has no memory, must be the "Doctor" that Captain Jack Harkness keeps going on about.
Doomwatch, which I started to watch this morning, is particularly interesting. Similar to Doctor Who episodes of the time like "The Green Death", it focuses on the idea that governments and corporations are carrying out reckless science which is endangering the whole world. The organisation combatting this is run by a scientist whose work contributed to Hiroshima/Nagasaki, and large prints of mushroom clouds dominate his office as if to say, "never again".
Today: biological agents that destroy plastics, developed for waste disposal, causing air crashes. Evil governmental ministers, retro computing, pretty young men with immensely 1970s haircuts, rather unreconstructed attitudes to women (Life on Mars? Not exaggerating.) I am really enjoying myself!
An aside: my 1970s Torchwood crew is likely to contain an ex-actor called Marwood who has a mysterious past and an uncanny sense of intuition where alien activity is concerned. He has a note in his pocket that says merely, "Meet me in St. Louis', 8 February 2001. Fitz". He becomes increasingly convinced that this "Fitz" person, of whom he has no memory, must be the "Doctor" that Captain Jack Harkness keeps going on about.
