"All human record is a lie.
You twist it into what you want to believe...."
Adam
'Torchwood'
You twist it into what you want to believe...."
Adam
'Torchwood'
I found the pilot and at least the first regular episode of the 2003 British sci-fi series 'Strange' online at YouTube. It's about this defrocked priest named John Strange who is investigating - and battling - demons (oftentimes while at odds with the Church).
As is the case with most TV series pilots, there was some fine-tuning done after the pilot for the series. While the three main stars - Richard Coyle, Samantha Janus, and Ian Richardson - remained, Strange's assistant Toby became a recastaway. In the pilot he was played by Bryan Dick; but in the series he was played by Andrew Lee Potts (who went on to play Connor Temple in 'Primeval').

Luckily, a later role played by Bryan Dick gives us the out....
In February of 2008, Dick appeared in a 'Torchwood' episode as "Adam". He was an alien who had infiltrated the Torchwood team and fed on the memories of the others, creating false ones in the process. So we can make the theoretical claim that when we saw the actor in the pilot for 'Strange' as Toby, he was really Adam; he was causing John Strange and the others to see him as Toby. When Strange told him to go out and get a proper job and quit hanging around with him, "Toby" deferred. He was probably right where he needed to be to get what he hungered for. (Whether or not he was working in collusion with the Demon League, I have no clue.)


So both plots overlapped each other, but we in the real world audience only saw the events of the official storyline.
As for the resemblance between the real Toby and Connor Temple of 'Primeval', we fall back on the old standby among the theories of "relateeveety": Papa was a rolling stone.
Actually, we never learn Toby's last name during those six episodes of 'Strange', so it's pozz'ble, just pozz'ble (as Mushrat would say), that Toby and Connor share the same mother as well as father. But of course that's something Toobworld Central can't

So for the time being, we're going to suggest that they're half-brothers with no idea about each other. But as we sometimes see in real life, their destinies somehow follow the same path - both of them are technological wizards who are still a few years off from being fully functional adults.
I once wrote about 'Strange', suggesting that Richard Coyle's character might make an excellent addition to the 'Torchwood' team. But even though it can't be proven, we can already say both series are connected - and now I can throw 'Primeval' into the mix as well!
BCnU!
Toby O'B
*By this point, you'll have gathered that the subject heading is a wordplay reference on Toby as a strange being, not that it's strange for me to be Toby.
Although it is.......
1 comment:
I thought it was a reference to "Being Erica", Erica's surname being Strange, and you. But that's just me.
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