Yes, I'm sure they can. I don't think, however, that that is the case in this instance.
And like I said ages ago, I'm just as capable of defending to the death the choices that writers make that I personally feel are good ones, popular or not. I've even, in the case of my Hoix anecdote from long ago, been guilty of defending something and explaining it away in a writer's defense, only to find that in fact, I was wrong, and it hadn't been thought through to the extent that I had assumed it had been thought through. I'm just as capable, as is everyone else, of giving the writers FAR TOO MUCH credit and praising things that turn out to be afterthoughts or not-thoughts at all. I PRAISED the writing in Fragments, Ianto's bit in particular, because I thought it was HUGELY clever and a fantastic way of tying up an incredible amount of loose ends in one ten-minute segment. Funnily enough, it turned out the crying bit at the end, the bit that tied that segment together and turned it into an emotionally compelling story that fit, dramatically, with the events that were to follow? That bit was Gareth's idea. Way too much credit on my part.
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And like I said ages ago, I'm just as capable of defending to the death the choices that writers make that I personally feel are good ones, popular or not. I've even, in the case of my Hoix anecdote from long ago, been guilty of defending something and explaining it away in a writer's defense, only to find that in fact, I was wrong, and it hadn't been thought through to the extent that I had assumed it had been thought through. I'm just as capable, as is everyone else, of giving the writers FAR TOO MUCH credit and praising things that turn out to be afterthoughts or not-thoughts at all. I PRAISED the writing in Fragments, Ianto's bit in particular, because I thought it was HUGELY clever and a fantastic way of tying up an incredible amount of loose ends in one ten-minute segment. Funnily enough, it turned out the crying bit at the end, the bit that tied that segment together and turned it into an emotionally compelling story that fit, dramatically, with the events that were to follow? That bit was Gareth's idea. Way too much credit on my part.