The odd thing is that I am not a Torchwood fan yet one of the things I thought when watching the first two episodes was that they were designed to be pleasers for the shipper fans - and then the last two episodes, in particular, seemed to me, an outsider in this case, to be deliberately designed to smash said shipper fans into the dust and dance all over them yelling, "Meh, meh, meh!"
If I had been one of said shippers, I might have got annoyed about that, rather than what I did get annoyed about, which was primarily the clumsy emotional manipulation. It was that that made me blow up on Friday night.
bigtitch's researches do seem to suggest that Mr Moran is over-reacting to the sort of "U KILLED IANTO I HATE YOU" messages that I am sure we have all received at one time or another.
However, if I were either him or RTD, I would be much more worried about their attendance at a US con in a couple of weeks - neadods, a wonderfully sensible person but whose own reaction was, "Have cancelled my orders for Torchwood DVDs, CDs and books", is worried about what will happen there.
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Date: 2009-07-13 07:25 pm (UTC)If I had been one of said shippers, I might have got annoyed about that, rather than what I did get annoyed about, which was primarily the clumsy emotional manipulation. It was that that made me blow up on Friday night.
However, if I were either him or RTD, I would be much more worried about their attendance at a US con in a couple of weeks -