RTD often seems to have trouble actually MAKING his characters wonderful, awesome, compassionate and so forth and resorts instead to the rather lazy tool of TELLING US that they are these things.
THIS. i have been saying this ever since rose tyler s2 and gwen cooper s1, and i am gratified beyond words that SOMEONE ELSE FINALLY SEES IT TOO.
*glomps you*
Gwen's actual onscreen rather pushy, ditzy, sometimes downright stupid, cheating-on-her-boyfriend etc etc behaviour
more than all that, it's her selfishness that i think really makes jack's opinion of her as 'the compassionate one' hard to understand...especially when she repeatedly puts the whole team in danger by refusing to follow jack's direct orders, throws tantrums to get her own way, and endangers her fiance's life by giving him what she damn well knows is a dangerous drug instead of confessing her infidelity and facing the consequences. and beyond just being lazy writing, it makes jack really look bad as a leader: he repeatedly allows his special pet employee (that he might or might not want to shag) to endanger the other team members and gives her preferential treatment.
anyway, rtd seems to admire selfishness in his female characters (insert any of the quotes he's made about rose tyler's selfishness making her a survivor, etc), and, just, wtf? selfish =/= compassionate.
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Date: 2009-07-02 04:30 pm (UTC)THIS. i have been saying this ever since rose tyler s2 and gwen cooper s1, and i am gratified beyond words that SOMEONE ELSE FINALLY SEES IT TOO.
*glomps you*
Gwen's actual onscreen rather pushy, ditzy, sometimes downright stupid, cheating-on-her-boyfriend etc etc behaviour
more than all that, it's her selfishness that i think really makes jack's opinion of her as 'the compassionate one' hard to understand...especially when she repeatedly puts the whole team in danger by refusing to follow jack's direct orders, throws tantrums to get her own way, and endangers her fiance's life by giving him what she damn well knows is a dangerous drug instead of confessing her infidelity and facing the consequences. and beyond just being lazy writing, it makes jack really look bad as a leader: he repeatedly allows his special pet employee (that he might or might not want to shag) to endanger the other team members and gives her preferential treatment.
anyway, rtd seems to admire selfishness in his female characters (insert any of the quotes he's made about rose tyler's selfishness making her a survivor, etc), and, just, wtf? selfish =/= compassionate.