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So, you're trying to get over a bit of writers' block ... and then This Happens (only click if you have a strong stomach or think the idea of Torchwood hiring a Lovable Paedophile is a great move).

I suppose this should bring out my fighting spirit, and rekindle the fire so to speak, but it just depresses me to think that RTD would ruin his own show like this - and a show I loved. It's like he's trying to mess it all up.

kholran and I think that it's probably RTD getting bored of killing off likable characters, so in order to make Gwen the Ultimate Icon rather than the Flawed Character (FFS! AS A FLAWED CHARACTER, SHE'D WORK PERFECTLY! STOP TRYING TO SHOVE HER DOWN OUR THROATS AS AWESOME! *ahem*) he's just creating repulsive ones instead. Oh, and recycling Toshiko from Classic Torchwood with a new ethnic minority, and Mulder from a show that isn't even his.

Obviously, I praying it's a hoax, but TV Guide picked up the story so now I'm not so sure. It's so ridiculous, it might just be true.

So while Torchwood is, as I said, dead to me, that doesn't mean I want to stop writing just yet. Yes, I've got writers' block just as

tw_bigbang posts their reminder that drafts are due in a month and I haven't updated for a fortnight and my entire fic file is at a standstill, but I'm not giving up on Jack and Ianto just yet. Things will get going again, no matter what RTD tries to do with this bastardized version of Torchwood.

I might send an email to the BBC asking if they would consider giving Torchwood to Super Moff.

_{N/B.: Wasn't 'Matherson' the name of GDL's character in Girl Number Nine? And making 'Jones' the paedophile? What's with that?}

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Okay I love your blog and have absolute love for your stories (which is why I decided to add you :-) )

Yet with this I really am hoping it's a hoax. Because seriously? These characters are just plain.... eeeh I think RTD has had enough of Torchwood and is destroying it so he can work on shows with the US.

However personally I don't think RTD actually liked Ianto from the start (although who couldn't like Yan is just plain silly *huggles Ianto*) because he was originally going to kill him off in Cyberwoman and then he was going to be the one in Reset before they decided on Owen.... and I don't know I just think he needed a reason too.

But putting rant aside.... Torchwood will always be season one and two. Children of Earth does not exist for me.

I agree that RTD didn't like Ianto -- and I think what really set him off is that fans were swooning over him (and Jack and him) rather than his own personal Ms. Snow White. I truly believe that's the real reason he killed Ianto -- to get back at fans for not falling in line with loving the witch and to get rid of the competition for Jack's interest.

I can't even begin to tell you how much I hate RTD.