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CLARIFICATION
Jul. 29th, 2009 01:09 pmI NEVER SAID GDL TURNED DOWN RTD IN A SEXUAL MANNER AND WAS THEREFORE RUTHLESSLY FRIDGED.
I said I'd heard other people saying it, and I was just repeating what I'd heard other people saying. Your honour. Okay, and I may have not said it WASN'T the case. But of course, I meant to, I was just putting the dinner on or something.
LOL, anyway, the reason I bring it up is because this rumour was mentioned on the anonmeme and I thought there was an interesting discussion there, because people did seem to be being really flippant about that sort of thing happening. Obviously, or at least in this instance, these sorts of crazy rumours are nothing to do with some sort of homophobic gay=sexual predator stereotype, but they derive solely from the fact that RTD mentions GDL in a quite lecherous manner several times in his book. And to make a reasonably serious point, if RTD was straight and had said the sort of things he said about GDL about some young unknown actress like Freema or somebody, or if God forbid Moffat were to publish in a book, for all to see, forever that doing rewrites for Karen Gillan was good fun because it meant he could meet with her in private and explain them and let's face it, he thinks she's hot and she gives him a hard-on, you wouldn't think it was quite so fucking funny. So, you know, I'm just throwing that out there. I've never really commented on the Writer's Tale thing because I don't want to constantly type on the internets about how I think Russell's a bit of a creep because it's beside the point and my opinion on the man matters not a jot to anyone, anywhere and it has nothing to do with his talents, or lack thereof, as a writer. But yes, I thought it was creepy at the time and I still think it's creepy now and it's the reason that speculation like this exists in the first place.
So yeah, there's that. But to put the record straight, RTD killed off Ianto because he can't write drama that doesn't involve people dying and he can't write romance that doesn't involve two people not being able to communicate openly with each other unless one of them is drawing their last breath. Those are the reasons.
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I said I'd heard other people saying it, and I was just repeating what I'd heard other people saying. Your honour. Okay, and I may have not said it WASN'T the case. But of course, I meant to, I was just putting the dinner on or something.
LOL, anyway, the reason I bring it up is because this rumour was mentioned on the anonmeme and I thought there was an interesting discussion there, because people did seem to be being really flippant about that sort of thing happening. Obviously, or at least in this instance, these sorts of crazy rumours are nothing to do with some sort of homophobic gay=sexual predator stereotype, but they derive solely from the fact that RTD mentions GDL in a quite lecherous manner several times in his book. And to make a reasonably serious point, if RTD was straight and had said the sort of things he said about GDL about some young unknown actress like Freema or somebody, or if God forbid Moffat were to publish in a book, for all to see, forever that doing rewrites for Karen Gillan was good fun because it meant he could meet with her in private and explain them and let's face it, he thinks she's hot and she gives him a hard-on, you wouldn't think it was quite so fucking funny. So, you know, I'm just throwing that out there. I've never really commented on the Writer's Tale thing because I don't want to constantly type on the internets about how I think Russell's a bit of a creep because it's beside the point and my opinion on the man matters not a jot to anyone, anywhere and it has nothing to do with his talents, or lack thereof, as a writer. But yes, I thought it was creepy at the time and I still think it's creepy now and it's the reason that speculation like this exists in the first place.
So yeah, there's that. But to put the record straight, RTD killed off Ianto because he can't write drama that doesn't involve people dying and he can't write romance that doesn't involve two people not being able to communicate openly with each other unless one of them is drawing their last breath. Those are the reasons.
Legal disclaimer ends.
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