As good as Gwen was in season 3, she was not a stand along heroine materiel, not chic/cool/psychotic/weird enough.

US TV in the past couple of year has been summoned up a pretty good pattern for a proper action-girl, Gwen is no where near the pattern. I don't understand why Russell is so obsessed with this idea of "ordinary female became extraordinary due to one male influence". That's so... 20th Century.