I am completely cranky because I skipped uni today to wait for a call from the BBC lady which hasn't actually arrived yet and therefore am still in my PJs because I spent the day thinking "Well, if I get in the shower now then she'll probably ring", and now I know it's too late for her to ring but I can't be bothered to shower and get dressed when I just don't really want to go out and be sociable tonight. So instead I will have a rather large rant about something I've come across today; Torchwood Hate Communities. Specifically character related ones.
Now, I'm all for people not liking characters. But there's people making comments about a certain female character who's not Tosh, along the lines of "Why doesn't she just DIE?", and also bashing Eve with it, which I think is completely unacceptable. Things that really annoyed me;
1. This group was complaining about an interview Eve did talking about the new series and saying how her relationship with Jack had changed. She said something about how there was a bit more UST between the two of them in season 2 and there were people going "Now I hate Gwen AND Eve even more". Bearing in mind this interview was before the season even started, surely EVE BLOODY MYLES knows the character better than you do, and therefore knows her story through the series? What gives these people the right to say they hate the ACTRESS for having an opinion on her character.
2. The main reason these people seem to dislike Gwen? They're predominantly Jack/Ianto shippers. I swear, it really is THE PAIRING THAT SWALLOWED BLOODY FANDOM. The Jack/Ianto shippers, it appears, hate Jack/Gwen because it's not their precious Janto and therefore it's all completely wrong. At the end of the day, guys, it's JACK! As Steven Moffat once said "Jack's theory on things is 'It's got a pulse, does it have a telephone number?'"...deal with it. If we all hated characters that got in the way of our pairings then we'd be buggered-I'm a Ianto/Gwen and Ianto/Owen shipper, which are two of the most minority pairings in this fandom, but I don't dislike Tosh or Jack or Rhys for any relations they may have which might get in the way of either. And do you know why? Because I'm a GROWN UP!
I understand that people might not like Gwen, and that's fine-but channeling ones energy into actively hating someone to the extent that these people do? Pathetic. At the end of the day, the writers and people who are making the show know what they're doing a hell of a lot more than a bunch of 17 year old girls writing fanfic, and if they don't like the way the characters are being handled, then don't watch it; that's your choice. What's complaining about it on somewhere like LJ going to help?