I definitely see that too. Gwen just can't pull off a Rose. Rose was nineteen, and her youth served her well in that it excused her occasional inability to see how her actions were affecting others and also gave her a measure of vulnerability. Gwen seems insufferably smug and overconfident in her own righteousness to me most of the time, despite the fact that while she has no special skills or knowledge to support the attitude, everyone else on the team does.
Also, Rose doesn't fit into the Torchwood universe and every attempt to make Gwen "adult" or "edgy" or whatever they're trying to do, ends up making her look like a twat: the letting a killer alien loose because she was too good to just hand Owen a tool, the cheating on Rhys and then retconning him, the trying to kiss Jack at her wedding, etc.
Mostly, though, like you said, RTD has assumed that Gwen would be the gateway character for the entire audience, which couldn't be further from the truth for me. I associate with Ianto first, Tosh second, Jack and Owen's order changes depending on the episode, and Gwen fifth, which is probably why her characterization annoys so much to be perfectly honest. If Gwen was my gateway character, I probably wouldn't care.
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Date: 2008-05-13 07:39 pm (UTC)Also, Rose doesn't fit into the Torchwood universe and every attempt to make Gwen "adult" or "edgy" or whatever they're trying to do, ends up making her look like a twat: the letting a killer alien loose because she was too good to just hand Owen a tool, the cheating on Rhys and then retconning him, the trying to kiss Jack at her wedding, etc.
Mostly, though, like you said, RTD has assumed that Gwen would be the gateway character for the entire audience, which couldn't be further from the truth for me. I associate with Ianto first, Tosh second, Jack and Owen's order changes depending on the episode, and Gwen fifth, which is probably why her characterization annoys so much to be perfectly honest. If Gwen was my gateway character, I probably wouldn't care.