BRING ON THE WANK
Oct. 24th, 2008 07:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Wow, what a busy busy day at my eljay it's been. I'm in a right bitchy mood today, so may I just say that if you feel the need to bitch about me, don't do it your flocked journal, that's just silly, do it HERE! I want to share in the hate.
Some bitchworthy opinions I have:
1) I think John Barrowman is obnoxious. I don't hate the guy, I don't really actually have an opinion on him one way or the other, but if I had to veer in a certain direction, obnoxious would be that direction.
2) Gareth David-Lloyd, in season two of Torchwood, was a chubster. Chinless, beergutty tubbyboy. He's looking better now and even in season two of Torchwood I'd have fucked him silly, but yeah, he was a fatty.
3) Freema's a shit actress. I got defriended over that one. Any other takers?
GO ON, YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO.
This post was brought to you by my fucked up hormones and my SCREAMING CHILDREN.
Some bitchworthy opinions I have:
1) I think John Barrowman is obnoxious. I don't hate the guy, I don't really actually have an opinion on him one way or the other, but if I had to veer in a certain direction, obnoxious would be that direction.
2) Gareth David-Lloyd, in season two of Torchwood, was a chubster. Chinless, beergutty tubbyboy. He's looking better now and even in season two of Torchwood I'd have fucked him silly, but yeah, he was a fatty.
3) Freema's a shit actress. I got defriended over that one. Any other takers?
GO ON, YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO.
This post was brought to you by my fucked up hormones and my SCREAMING CHILDREN.
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Date: 2008-10-24 06:22 pm (UTC)2) Yup. My favorite Hub Con quote is still Gareth saying: "Little pickers wear big knickers." I think he is well aware of his changing status (and what to do about it, if he so chooses).
3) Meh. DW and TW don't seem to lean too hard on stellar acting skills. (With notable exceptions, like GDL and CE, imo.)
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Date: 2008-10-24 06:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-24 06:48 pm (UTC)Having said that, as you say, funny is not his strong point, he's been either over the top or underwhelming on quite a few occasions.
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Date: 2008-10-24 07:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-24 07:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-24 08:13 pm (UTC)It took me the longest time to realize GDL's hotness too, somehow. Now I of course think he's a total babe, but I distinctly remember that when we first saw Ianto in the first episode I immediately thought, "ack, him? It's too bad he's not very attractive." And of course he spent most of Cyberwoman making entirely unattractive weepy faces so that didn't help his case. I don't even know when I started to pick up on his hotness, but now I'm convinced that my heterosexuality must just have been on lunch break every time Ianto was onscreen the first few episodes. Strangeness.
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Date: 2008-10-24 09:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-24 06:56 pm (UTC)What's great about Gareth and Burn Gorman as actors - rather than JB and perhaps Eve and Naoko - is that they are genuienly playing fictional characters rather than themselves. Burn delibrately over-plays Owen and Gareth delibrately under-plays Ianto. Even Burn has said that Gareth is nothing like his character.
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Date: 2008-10-24 07:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-24 07:12 pm (UTC)A lot can be the bad writing itself I guess, because some episodes he is in charge and strong and others he's like a shy girl
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Date: 2008-10-24 08:08 pm (UTC)'I guess, because some episodes he is in charge and strong and others he's like a shy girl'
Yeah, but then when has Torchwood ever been known for it's continuity. Depending on who is writing which episode you can have Ianto/Jack (KKBB), Jack/Gwen (Something Borrowed) or neither (From Out of the Rain).
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Date: 2008-10-24 08:14 pm (UTC)Since the writers have created a female lead who strongly divides opinion - Gwen Cooper - the writers clearly do sometimes get it wrong. :) It certainly isn't Eve Myles's fault that Gwen divides fandom.
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Date: 2008-10-24 10:04 pm (UTC)I think fans assume a lot of that depth based on the quirkiness, and there's plenty of meaty meta within fandom on why he must be brilliant (that makes sense if you're of a mind to look at it that way), but it's all so sketchy overall. I want to see something deeper spelled out on the screen.