TORCHWOOD John Barrowman Comic Con '09 - Part 5 of 7

Torchwood at San Diego Comic Con, July 26, '09. Full panel in 7 parts.
John Barrowman, Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner, Euros Lynn talk about their reasoning behind the death of Ianto Jones...among other things.

If you'd like to honor the character...and the man who portrayed him so beautifully...

www.justgiving.com/iantojones

as of the morning this video posted, over 3700 GBPounds have been donated in his name. I swear it will make you feel better. :-)

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[RadEmoKidd]

omg, only 9 packets!

i thought loads of people sent them in.... wierd.

i never did it, but basically coz i thought it's not our choice how torchwood goes, and coe was awesome even though it was sad.

x

[cos2mwiz]

Well, I've heard there were, in reality, over 900 but perhaps they went to a different office at the BBC...who knows?

[UKSundaeGirl72]

Glad they mentioned the Children In Need campaign. Better than sending coffee (I don't oppose that - but this is just money better spent). I *miss* Ianto. I cried so hard when he died, but I know it's fiction, it's a story. Love Torchwood, love the Barrowman.

[cos2mwiz]

Me too! I'd given him the card with the info the day before, so I was hoping he'd give it a shout out...and he did. *YAY*

[AmandaWadsley]

@cos2mwiz Is that you who shouts out what the website is? And have you met John Barrowman? :O! x

[cos2mwiz]

@AmandaWadsley Sadly yea, that is my screechy voice...wasn't expecting to have to speak in the middle of all that. =D I've met John a few times. Twice at Comic Con and once after his panto in Birmingham.

[KellTainerMARB]

"And let's have more of John Barrowman on television!" Shamelessly plugging, gotta love it! I want to see a late night show with John Barrowman and David Tennant hosting.

[shaolinwisdom]

Yeah if Russel did anything other than writing what he wanted his shows would suck, He's Brilliant

[JanesTown]

In the case of Ianto and other characters dieing, I think people here in the US are just not used to seeing it happen to main characters in our shows but the BBC seems to do it on all of theirs (at least the ones I watch) : Primeval - Cutter & Hart , Robin Hood - Lady Marian, and Hotel Babylon - (although not dead but gone) Charlie & Rebecca. Hell if Firefly where a BBC show Mal would have probably been stabbed to death in the 4th episode Shindig!

[pokethemantie]

£13,015.88 so far has been raised in memory of ianto jones.

:)

[RadEmoKidd]

yeah, i think alot of people were planning to send them just to bbc wales, and mabe he was talking about bbc london.

or vice versa.