The obscure hero of clip - travel show Doctor Who and its whirl - offs is n’t K-9 the cannister cad , it ’s executive manufacturer Julie Gardner . She ’s go along the flashing Inner Light from flying off the top of the Police Box time machine since the beginning . We were favourable enough to sit down with her at Comic - Con and need her about Doctor Who ’s success , the evolution of Torchwood , and why Sarah Jane Smith is still . The audience includes spoilers for the Sarah Jane Adventures .
Does Doctor Who ’s popularity prove people do it science fable ? Or is there something else going on ?
I reckon it ’s both , really . I consider people do live scifi , and they love the largeness of it , and they have intercourse the expectant emotions . That ’s what I enjoy about scifi , I love that things are writ big . I think that ‘s on a bigger canvas tent in a way . There ’s something extrarodinary in its [ popularity ] . I ca n’t even dissemble to have it off what it is . Children compose to us , and they save stories and they draw moving-picture show , and there ’s a real fundamental interaction and a genuine engagement , and they see the Doctor as their friend , and they go on adventures and they really are travineling with him and there ’s a cracking booking of their imagery , and I ’ve never receive that before . And obviously Russell T. Davies and Steven were enormous fan .
You were n’t a fan before ?
I dipped in and out , and expeirenced a footling bit of it … I ’ve become a immense fan now , through rediscovering the classical serial . When I first process on Doctor Who , [ Russell T. Davies ] sent me a view lean . “ This is what you require to know . ”
What was on it ?
I know you were going to ask me that . “ pyramid Of Mars , ” “ City Of Death , ” which is my absolute favourite , “ Talons Of Weng Chiang . ” “ City Of Death ” was the first fourth dimension I really translate it , and start to sympathize that this show can do anything . You ’ve get Tom Baker being amazing , you ’ve puzzle a shoot on a limited budget in Paris , exteriors only apparently . You ’ve got the cheekiness of him going back in time to meet Leonardo Da Vinci , you ’ve got the scale leaf and the fun and the imagination that was gob - slap . Personally the case of scifi I ’ve never been able to engage in is thing like Star Trek . I ’ve never been a Star Trek devotee . It ’s an astonishing show . I can conaprpeciate it , but it does n’t connect with me , it ’s cold scifi . I love Smallville , I sleep together Buffy . Stuff that parcel out with emotions and kinsperson , but has an superfluous constituent to it . It ’s a mx of the ordinary and the extraordinary . There are sesaons for scifi . There are prison term when i think psychologically nations want that feel - good cistron , and the scale of it … the the self-assurance , the shell or the swagger of it .
So during times of war and crisis , people necessitate scifi more ?
Yes . You want your comedies , or your musicals , or your heroic emotion , which is real emotion , but on an epic canvass .
When I sing about stale scifi … There ’s a Brobdingnagian cleverness to Star Trek which is tantalizing , but … I get laid Doctor Who and Torchwood and Sarah Jane Adventures … because finally they ’re all about how you live and the choices you make , and Doctor Who without question is at its best in the moment where the Doctor suffers and the Doctor has to make a choice , as opposed to the moments where you see this extraoridnary Time Lord genius travel . If you ’re immortal , like Captain Jack , what does that do to your kinship ? Sarah Jane , she ’s alone , but then she find her syndicate . She ’s fighting for her espouse Word .
Torchwood has changed so much just in the past two years . And now it ’s being aired all over the place . I just insure that it ’s showing in Korea .
Torchwood does really well in Korea . It ’s really up there with CSI , they have some major imports from America , and [ then there ’s ] Torchwood .
Do you recall Torchwood lost some of its identicalness in the 2d time of year when it became less racy ?
I think it ’s the reverse . I think it started to find itself . Because I imagine time of year one , we made very fast . It ’s the fastest show I ’ve ever gone through , from the development and the charge to really being on air . It was a tight docket . It dictates the tone sometimes , you ’re just really run for the finish . But as well as that we just really clearly need to set aside Torchwood as being different to Doctor Who . There was swearing in the first scene , and it was very clearly stated . [ Then ] we started to relax into it , and we started to find what Torchwood was to itself . Captain Jack is a larger than lifetime character , and has a capital sex life with Ianto . [ People talk about ] the sexual urge , the sex , the sexuality , but actually there ’s very little sex in Torchwood . Where we sustain that reputation was episode two , where you did have the aphrodisiacal gas alien monster . But beyond that , it was more about broken hearts and sexual love . The Toshiko episode [ with her lesbian lover ] was not about lesbian sex activity , it was about she ’s in the end plant … something outside of work … [ and then she loses it . ]
Speaking of Toshiko , one of my favorite episodes in time of year two was the episode with Toshiko and the World War I soldier . It seems like Torchwood is often at its honorable when it mete out with war .
I think it ’s a very wild-eyed show . Tosh having that relationship from World War I is very romanticistic and emotional , and painful and the release of someone that young and believe about what those world went through – those male child went through – it ’s terrible . Torchwood ’s tone is never risque for the sake of being that . When it ’s risque , it is always about the report and haivng a minuscule twinkle in your center .
My favorite Who spinoff is in reality the Sarah Jane Adventures . I love how Sarah Jane has actually do to become sort of a interlingual rendition of the Doctor .
She has her sonic lip rouge . He ’s call the Doctor of the Church , he makes people good , that ’s a run theme across all the escapade in his life … She is like the Doctor , with her team … it ’s a gay show . We always take it in the summer . Elisabeth Sladen is amazing . How can a woman look that ripe ? She ’s got so much muscularity and vicacity . I think really it ’s quite a moral show , and not in a preachy way . It ’s about what option do you make , like Doctor Who and how do you live with them and how to stand up for the affair you consider in . And there ’s a cost to thing , and Sarah Jane suffers . And how this lonely woman short finds a ready - made family and how brilliant that is
utter of which , I was sorry to hear that Maria is leaving the show , but I see a raw house is moving in across the street from Sarah Jane ?
We are two calendar week away from wrapping the shoot . The novel family is called the Chandras and their daughter Rani . They bedded down really well as characters . They come in in episodes three and four . It ’s an imporant story . It ’s also about what does it have in mind to Sarah Jane to lose Maria . That red ink all play out in important shipway .
Top Julie Gardner icon fromEwan and Donabelon Flickr .
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