Finally - the new soundtrack CD

From Silva Screen, or Amazon.

I have now figured out the Wales Millennium Centre

In an earlier post, I was trying to make sense of this image from Google Maps:


I was guessing that the building in the upper portion of the image was the Wales Millennium Centre, as it was the only building in the area to have the correct curve in the front. But it didn't seem right to me.

A helpful reader named Jamble popped by to say:

These satellite images are well out of date, the Wales Millennium Centre is on that patch of bare ground below the large building - which is the Red Dragon centre, home to the Doctor Who exhibition.

More Torchwood locations can be found via www.visitcardiff.com/torchwood.html

Well, that clears that up.

I took a poke around the Visit Cardiff site, and they have a nice little Google maps interface with a fair number of Torchwood locations, including one of the buildings that Captain Jack stands on to sulk! They put it here:

If my memory serves me correctly, he was standing on the beam on the right side of the building in the lower left, but the marker is pointed at a different building. Is the real building another one that wasn't built when the satellite went past?

Oh Google Maps, you are a harsh mistress.

the start of it all

There have been rumors bouncing around the web for the last couple of days that Nigel Kneale had died, and now confirmation.

Sad.

I haven't yet figured out the Wales Millennium Centre

As Doctor Who is now being produced in Wales and Torchwood is set there, It seems appropriate to add a link to the Wales Millennium Centre, as it is popping up a lot. (It was also used for interior shots in New Earth.) This looks to be the view from Google Maps:


I think that the large curved front with the lettering is the lower left side of the large building at the top of the shot there, and the tall water sculpture is at the bottom of the shot - the semi-circle that casts a long shadow.

It doesn't feel quite right to me from the way the location looks on television, so I am worried that I might not have the location completely correct. Of course, it looks like there is a lot of construction still ongoing in the satellite shot, so that could account for the difference.

Next project for the obsessive fan: list all the buildings that Captain Jack stands on when he wants to go for a sulk.

Linkage

The pre-Beta version of this blog had a list of links under the heading "Links into the Land of Fiction."

Most of these were created by the BBC for cross-marketing, but a couple were made by fans who were joining in on the fun.

For the time being, I'll just dump the list here:

Defending the Earth

UNIT

Bad Wolf

British Rocket Group/Project Guinevere

Geocomtex

Leamington Spa Lifeboat Museum

Millingdale Organic Ice Cream

Torchwood House

Deffry Vale High School

Deffry Vale

Flydale North

Cybus Corporation

Powell Estate Tenants and Residents Association

Henrik and Son Department Store

Label Mania

A glance to the side will indicate that I've come up with a scheme for labeling posts on this blog.

Whooo!

And the coming attractions just keep on coming

Torchwood starts October 22. Enjoy the teaseriest of teaser promos: