Randomness...

[tencrush]

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.

Comments

[ceindreadh.livejournal.com]

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.

There's a radio interview with GDL, done on 10th July, posted on Youtube. Carry on Friday

In it, he mentions that his agent told him they were looking for him for only 3 to 4 of the 5 episodes (and that's when he figured something like this was going to happen)
He also says something along the lines of being sat down and told exactly where his character was going in the eps.

Looks like to me it was definitely writers choice rather than actor.

[tencrush]

Righty-ho. It must be the sex thing, then. *files that away in brain*

[jo02]

You know it's the sex thing.
How could it not be.
**smiles fondly and pets cock**

[santousha.livejournal.com]

**smiles fondly and pets cock**
That visual does things to me

[jo02]

**Grins**

My mission is accomplished.
We are all smiling fondly and thinking of Gareth's cock .... sigh ...

[as1mplegirl.livejournal.com]

As others have pointed out. It's not like he has work lined up to replace Torchwood. He's probably in the most precarious position work wise to get work outside the show of all the 5 (+Kai Owen) original cast.