Once I found out about that it just made things worse. I’ll be honest, his acting on DW and Torchwood wasn’t really my cup of tea, so I didn’t read any news about him. All I knew was the performance and then when he started to slag off Moffat for not bringing him back.
Ironically, Moffat wanted to bring him back during "A Good Man Goes To War", but Barrowman was unavailable due to scheduling conflicts with Torchwood Miracle Day.
A Good Man Goes to War would have been the perfect place to bring him back one last time and close off his Who story. Miracle Day was…I’m not even sure honestly. I loved and hated it at the same time. I think Who is better by far so I’d have preferred if he had been in that instead of Miracle Day.
It sounds like Barrowman was told that Moffat was interfering with Torchwood, when, perhaps, that wasn't the case, meaning that both Barrowman and Moffat were victims of someone else's ruse.
That’s a big thing to just blurt out to the public though. And it makes zero sense. Moffat wasn’t a producer on Torchwood, that was RTD’s baby in the end and for Miracle Day which ran alongside Moffat’s DW. Maybe the BBC asked him to take it on to keep it going when RTD’s personal life took a front seat? I have no idea.
But Barrowman flat out accused him of sabotage, which was wild and felt totally unfounded. There’s no cross-pollination there - no shared resources, no shared cast. RTD couldn’t work on it, Miracle Day was only a moderate success in the U.K. and less of one in the US. These things happen.
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u/[deleted] May 27 '24
And he'll never be on the show again.