At least (now don't kill me) JK Rowling had made it pretty clear to this reader that Harry/Hermione wasn't the way she was going at all since book one. Yes, she could've put it better (even "delusional"--especially "delusional"--people have feelings!), but her being confused by people misreading her intent makes sense there (IIRC). Now, RTD sits down at his keyboard to write the "brilliant" COE. What's one of the first things he decides MUST happen? Ianto must die. And the story must make it so. At that point, he had to have known how popular Ianto was (or otherwise, his death wouldn't have made an impact!). So, DUH when people were mad at him for killing off Ianto (and in not a great way IMO). I really don't get how he doesn't get that it upset the fans. I really don't get why he'd insult the readership of a sci-fi magazine when that seems to be his bread and butter now for a while, too.

And what did GDL do to piss him off so much? He can make "jokes" all he wants, but I hope he hasn't blacklisted GDL at the BBC.

Maybe this is all just fodder for a new book...