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Russell's tasteful acceptance speech at SFX.

ETA the speech for those of you who don't like clicking links:

"Hello SFX, it's Russell T Davies here, I'll just dictate this on to your answerphone. Thanks very much to everyone who voted, and I'd also like to thank... Oh, hold on. Sorry. No, I'm busy, I'm on the phone to SFX. It's a magazine. No wonder you haven't heard of it, it's a specialist magazine. For special people. Yes, with special needs. They've given Torchwood a prize for Best TV Episode. No, stop laughing, they have. No, they really have. Honestly, stop laughing. I'm not kidding, seriously, stop laughing, now. No, it's not the Comedy Awards. Which episode? Day 5. No, not Day 4. No, definitely not Day 4. I didn't write Day 4. I don't f**king care what you think, Day 4 didn't win, okay? And no, he's not coming back to life, so forget it! You're no longer playing Ianto, you're my houseboy, so accept it, okay? Anyway. Yeah, thanks SFX, and thanks to the magnificent cast and crew, and to BBC One for their support. I'm really delighted and honoured that people made the effort to vote for this, so thank you hugely. Hold on. You missed a bit, Gareth, over there, that's it, bend over. Bye. Click. Brrrr."

Hey, I don't really care what anyone else thinks, I think Rusty's a huge skeeve. Seriously, yeah, of course I lolled (briefly), but no, man, if Gareth was a chick and Rusty was Moffat you'd be all over this fucking shit. It's skanky sexual innuendo by a big-time producer about a young actor. It's not witty, and it's not clever. I don't think GDL's crying quietly in a corner about it, he's a big boy, but still. Point still stands.

My main beef with this is: why does he keep feeling the need to poke this fannish shit? Let it lie already, Russell.

Comments

[eandh99.livejournal.com]

I do enjoy it when RTD publicly lives down to my opinion of him. I think a big piece of the spitefulness comes from the fact that RTD is not getting the recognition he feels he deserves - as far as I know he personally hasn't won a single award for his SF writing, the Hugos have gone to Steven Moffat. This was just a popularity contest run by a magazine. Nor is he finding Hollywood an easy nut to crack - nobody invited him out there, he's cold-calling and in 6 months all he's got is one spec script for a network that's notoriously difficult for genre shows (unless he continues in the CoE vein and turns TW into 24-with-aliens).

OTOH, who's being actively pursued to work in Hollywood, who's been turning down work there to stick with the BBC and the Whoniverse? - not RTD who clearly would've sold his grandmother for the chance. Barrowman turned down Brothers and Sisters to stick with Who, and now has 5 episodes on Desperate Housewives while RTD's got nothing besides houseboy jokes about Gareth. I know you're not the biggest Barrowman fan - but it must irk RTD that Hollywood prefers JB to him, though he doesn't seem to have the nerve to say so.

[sugarberi.livejournal.com]

My, my. The passive aggressiveness in that acceptance speech. I think it's towards the nine hysterical ones and maybe ming-mongs in general with that special comment.

I'm not sure what GDL's done to deserve that. Maybe he's just caught in the crossfire. At least that's what I'd like to think.

Anybody know if Gareth's Bill episode ever turned up on YT? I've been searching for Duty Calls, season 26/ep3, episode 2377(!) so far no luck.