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Aug. 13th, 2009 11:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lady_windermereOh well, watch me lose loads of friends when I answer my Top Five fandom lists. Already lost one because I called Castiel "Dull as old dish water". Of course not either Sam or Dean, my two darlings.
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Date: 2009-08-14 04:29 pm (UTC)Yeah, just look at the amount of his backstory compared to Gwen; we've seen Gwen's parents, her friends, they made a whole episode out of her wedding, we know how Rhys and Gwen met, but with Ianto we've never even seen his flat, or any flashback scenes of him and Liza and most of what little backstory who got for him turned out not to be true, plus Jack/Ianto is a real Noodle Incident (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoodleIncident) relationship. We've seen Gwen/Rhys in bed how many times? I give most of the credit for creating Ianto to Gareth.
'In fact the only characters he ever seemed invested in were Jack and Gwen, and he seems kind of annoyed that his Gwen is not more popular.'
He does seem annoyed, doesn't he. I've always thought that Gwen was his self-insert and he really doesn't understand why people don't like her. Torchwood was originally supposed to be a Gwen-centric show.
'It is as if he is saying that the Ianto fans were not really invested in the show, but Gareth fans only.'
I know. I'm a Ianto fan, but for me it wasn't the fact that they killed Ianto (I've been expecting it since series 2) that makes me not all that interested in Series 4; it's the fact that they fridged Ianto, kill off most of the cast (even Myfanwy is dead) and RTD has made it clear that any other characters (besides Gwen) he brings in are just red shirts, and changed the show from didn't take itself too seriously to dark and serious.
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Date: 2009-08-14 05:39 pm (UTC)Yes, I like dark and serious, just as I liked AtS more then BtVS, but the cheap and nasty building of the Janto, just to have 'emotional impact', which we all saw coming, didn't work for me.
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Date: 2009-08-14 06:02 pm (UTC)Yeah, I get what they were trying to do with Ianto's death (I have to hand it to John and Gareth for selling it for everything it's worth) but it just didn't work because it was so obvious.
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Date: 2009-08-14 06:06 pm (UTC)Very true, and that was poor writing at fault.
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Date: 2009-08-14 07:46 pm (UTC)