Torchwood and Doctor Who rpg

A few of you might know that i've been a roleplayer and occasional LARPer for the last eight years, or even longer if you count the play by post type stuff. I am now going to venture into the realms of journal based roleplaying.

The RPG is over on greatestjournal at  http://timelordy.greatestjournal.com/  if anybody is interested. It's Torchwood and Doctor Who (original series and new series) I'm putting in a application to play Owen - Yes i am probably mad.
It looks like there are still a lot of characters available (because any TW and DW character is allowed) plus there is the opportunity for a few original characters as well.

The only thing i'm not sure about is the fact that most of the roleplaying is supposed to be done in 3rd person format, which seems a little odd to me. I'll give it a go though, if just for the novelty value.
Is anybody on my f-list an journal based RPGer and if so is 3rd person usual for journal based games? 

If this doesn't work out i'm thinking of maybe setting up a Torchwood RPG here on live ournal as there is only one (that I can find) running at the moment and that already has the main characters taken and doesn't seem to be looking for anymore people at the moment.