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A few bits and bobs of interest.

I'd like to repost this quote posted on my journal by kateorman:
"I reckon the chances of Ianto dying (or otherwise exiting the narrative) are diddly/squat. GDL would be insane to quit and the showrunners would be insane to dump their slashtastic drawcard."
Now obviously I'm not just reposting this to point and laugh (well, maybe just a bit), I am in fact posting it because I'm seeing a lot of not-really-based-on-anything assumptions in discussions lately that GDL left Torchwood against his will. I posited the theory quite some time ago that this may well not have been the case, but few people seem to be taking that one up. I still believe it, though, if nothing else, it would explain to me why a stroppy RTD gave Ianto such a craptastic death. Obviously, there's that other explanation doing the rounds that RTD fridged Ianto because GDL turned him down. Sexually. Which is a much more amusing explanantion, obviously. I'm not subscribing to it, but I'm just throwing it out there for everyone to have a jolly fun think about.

holdingoff is hosting a fic project one or two of you might be interested in here. It's called Turn Left, Torchwood, and it's an episode-by-episode rewrite of all three series, each episode with one minor change, which will propagate into the next episode, etc etc. So go write if you like that sort of thing, it sounds cool.

Okay, so probably the weirdest after-effect of Children of Earth has been the charity fundraising efforts. It all started when someone created a charity page supporting James Moran because people were so OMG MEAN to him and Torchwood fans really ought to distance themselves from that sort of behaviour and there's no better way to show how much better one is than someone else than by giving to charidee. Or something. The end result is that two JustGiving pages were created supporting Moran for Children in Need and supporting Moran for Cancer Research. As a retaliatory measure, another page was created mourning Ianto for Children in Need. Now, obviously, all of this is just a bit silly and now that some of the more heated emotions have died down, we can see this business for what it is. IT'S A FUCKING CHARITY FIIIIGHT!!! GO!! Go fight Ianto's corner, guys, this is me, talking trash atcha. WE SHALL PREVAIL!!! We need to win this one, so GO!!! The best thing about a charity fight is of course that nobody really loses in the end. In order to make things truly fair, somebody should probably create a Cancer Research site for Ianto, so that the nature of the charity doesn't create any sort of bias and then WE CAN KICK THEIR SYCOPHANTIC MORAN WORSHIPPING ARSES PROPERLY. I'm joking, of course. I don't give to charity because I'm a fucking tightwad. But I might make an exception just to KICK MORAN'S LYING ARSE INTO NEXT WEEK. No, I'm joking again. Obviously. No, really, I am. You shouldn't take me too seriously, guys.

I'd just ilke to say a warm hello to those of you that have friended me in the past week because of woe or anger or whatever. It's a nice change from those of you who have defriended me for not properly APPRECIATING ART. Welcome. Let's get drunk.

Somebody noted this on the meme the other day, but I don't see it having been taken up as widespread fact. THIS is NOT Rusty Davies' website. I'm just sayin'. It's a website ABOUT Rusty Davies, and it's nice that it has a messageboard which you can all use to vent your frustration, but can you stop pretending it's Russell's website. Look at it. The fanvid, the headshot, the outdated cv. Srsly, guys, come on.

Nope, not just you. All that S2 tension was gone, I don't know if that was deliberate or what.

...wasn't there those behind-the-scenes shots of JB and GDL hugging in a RPS-baiting way outside the "Thames House" building? We didn't know Ianto was on his way to his death at the time *sob*

Plus lack of sexual tension: a lot of that down to Euros Lynn's direction IMO. He's quoted as saying on set "Hug like soldiers, not like lovers" - in TW mag, I think - so they did as directed.

Plus, didn't someone say there was supposed to be kissing in episode 3? That might've helped. Don't know if it was shot, but if so, somebody should be shot for cutting it!

Yeah, there was a lot more sexual tension in those on location scenes with JB and GDL (e.g. street filming in ep3, lunch on the Plass in ep1).

Maybe they purposefully removed the tension as another way to punish the fans! Beans, unflattering closeup angle, gay jokes, Debenhams, no big MF gun...ahhhh!

'Yeah, there was a lot more sexual tension in those on location scenes with JB and GDL (e.g. street filming in ep3, lunch on the Plass in ep1).'

This does not support my theory - I'd have thought they'd have turned into an old married couple a la Hudson and Halls.

I saw one poster (not here) say GDL's "heterosexuality was showing badly in S3", which was so unfair on GDL IMO.

I think he was perfectly capable, and happy, to portray a same-sex r/ship but the director wanted something else.

Yeah, I think that's a very unfair accusation, he's never had any trouble in that area before. There was an obvious desire on the part of the writers and director to go in a different direction, though I can't imagine why.

Also, sorry about your theory here, but the convention which spurned so many icons, with the JB GDL snogging, and lap sitting, that was after filming completed.

It is down to the direction, and a bit shameful at that. Also maybe just knowing the direction it was going made a difference.

...I'm talking about the Alun Vega pics from the actual shoot showing JB and GDL having a bit of a cuddle (or JB keeping GDL warm in his shirt sleeves most likely!) just around the corner of the 'Thames House' building.

Oh God yes I love those pictures and knew what you meant. It was one of those times when you reply to someone but it ends up so far down the thread that it is confusing. I was supporting your point as the poster had said that GDL and JB had lost personal chemistry and was theorising that something had happened, you said but there were those photos during filming so it isn't personal, it was the direction, and I was saying exactly it is the direction as the personal chemistry/closeness was clearly there after the filming, at that convention.

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