One of the worst things I keep reading since COE aired is this weird idea that "RTD is a homophobe".
I hope it's just fans lashing out because they loved TW and Ianto, but when they stop to think about it they will realise they are wrong.
RTD is out and proud. Since he re-created Doctor Who there has been an enormous amount of homophobia flung at him. Just have a look at some of the personal remarks made about him, and his sexuality on the sci-fi forums. It'll make your toes curl.
I was watching the original UK Queer as Folk in 99 when it first aired. Rimming and anal sex in the first ten minutes - wow it was ground-breaking for terrestial tv. RTD took a lot of flack then from the real homophobes and also from a certain percentage who said his characters should be role models for the gay community, instead of real, messed-up people.
Mostly straight fangirls telling a gay man about homphobia? Please! Like I said have a trawl around the internet, and you'll see how much homphobia RTD gets against himself and his shows. Don't even start psychobabbling on "internalised homophobia", or I'll throw "passive aggressive fangirl" back at you.
IANTO DID NOT DIE BECAUSE HE WAS GAY. HE DIED BECAUSE HE WAS JACK'S LOVER. If Jack had been with a woman/Gwen she would have died too. Jack is the universe-roaming anti-hero. He could never be tied down - it just couldn't work.
It was not because BBC1 is homphobic, and they're trying to sell S4 to a mainstream crowd - as I've seen some posters claim. There may never be a S4. They didn't know if COE was going to be a success before it was aired. So the last memory the mainstream public have is that Jack was devastated when his male lover died.
The idea that it's "Bury your Gays" for a tv show. Really? Well, RTD is an equal opportunities character killer. Clem also died in Day Four. RTD treats his gay and straight characters equally. Gay characters are not angels or role models, just people. And in the TW world people die. I loved Ianto, and Janto, but if this was to be the last series of TW I'm glad we got the moving death scene.
Ianto was going to die someday. If S4 had never been made it would have felt unfinished. It would have been worse (IMO) if the COE had ended with Jack leaving Ianto - which Ianto feared, along with Jack forgetting him - but I think he knew by the end that Jack really loved him.
RTD is a homophobe? Don't make me laugh.
I hope it's just fans lashing out because they loved TW and Ianto, but when they stop to think about it they will realise they are wrong.
RTD is out and proud. Since he re-created Doctor Who there has been an enormous amount of homophobia flung at him. Just have a look at some of the personal remarks made about him, and his sexuality on the sci-fi forums. It'll make your toes curl.
I was watching the original UK Queer as Folk in 99 when it first aired. Rimming and anal sex in the first ten minutes - wow it was ground-breaking for terrestial tv. RTD took a lot of flack then from the real homophobes and also from a certain percentage who said his characters should be role models for the gay community, instead of real, messed-up people.
Mostly straight fangirls telling a gay man about homphobia? Please! Like I said have a trawl around the internet, and you'll see how much homphobia RTD gets against himself and his shows. Don't even start psychobabbling on "internalised homophobia", or I'll throw "passive aggressive fangirl" back at you.
IANTO DID NOT DIE BECAUSE HE WAS GAY. HE DIED BECAUSE HE WAS JACK'S LOVER. If Jack had been with a woman/Gwen she would have died too. Jack is the universe-roaming anti-hero. He could never be tied down - it just couldn't work.
It was not because BBC1 is homphobic, and they're trying to sell S4 to a mainstream crowd - as I've seen some posters claim. There may never be a S4. They didn't know if COE was going to be a success before it was aired. So the last memory the mainstream public have is that Jack was devastated when his male lover died.
The idea that it's "Bury your Gays" for a tv show. Really? Well, RTD is an equal opportunities character killer. Clem also died in Day Four. RTD treats his gay and straight characters equally. Gay characters are not angels or role models, just people. And in the TW world people die.
I loved Ianto, and Janto, but if this was to be the last series of TW I'm glad we got the moving death scene.
Ianto was going to die someday. If S4 had never been made it would have felt unfinished. It would have been worse (IMO) if the COE had ended with Jack leaving Ianto - which Ianto feared, along with Jack forgetting him - but I think he knew by the end that Jack really loved him.
And Jack did love him.