Gwenwood

[a_silver_story]

Well ... a 'promotional image' of TW has surfaced, over on SFX (I haven't read the interview because it's with RTD, and I'll probably just get angry).






So ... erm ... yeah?


WHUT DA FECK?



Composition with only two subjects has to be of the same 'status', otherwise the picture leans. See how the skyscrapers they tried to balance it out with LEAN because the right side of the image is taken up by SMALL Jack since there isn't enough room for him next to DOMINANT Gwen. Maybe the skyscraper will fall on him and bury him for a billion years so that he can't interfere with Gwenwood.

Why did I promise myself I'd watch the first few episodes of this? I hope to GOD some kind of MIRACLE happens and something DECENT is produced, because I won't be able to get those hours of my life back.




EDIT: At least I got my new series of 'Animals at Work', and I have to say there's far more interesting drama in chicken-guarding alpacas than in RTD's left horn!

Comments

[bettathnbarbie.livejournal.com]

Agree completely on Gwack. Maybe an affair would be better because it would at least leave Jack free of her.

Then again, if she had an affair she would no longer be the icon of family values and heterosexuality that she was in CoE. Who would bring light into Torchwood's darkness then? (I can't help it, the subject tweeks my sarcastic bone; even if sarcasm doesn't translate well into the Internet, S4 news like this compels me to try. Sorry!)

[woani21.livejournal.com]

Honestly the depiction of Gwen as a family-oriented or maternal figure would be a major change to the character. They have continually sent signals up that show her reticence towards settling down, getting married, and even her threatening to Rhys that she'll abort her baby in CoE have indicated that it's likely just not in her to do those things. Of course some people don't express a desire for domestic life and then adapt very well, but it would seem in character to show Gwen trying to escape from the domestic "mess" that she'd created for herself, probably with some idiotic analogy comparing her to a wild horse running free across the American plains.

[a-silver-story.livejournal.com]

"probably with some idiotic analogy comparing her to a wild horse running free across the American plains."



This makes me laugh and vomit at the same time.

[bettathnbarbie.livejournal.com]

OMG, that's a wonderful[ly horribly twisted] analogy. Think of the one-liners it opens up for Jack! ;)

WTF, the affair with Owen was apparently justifiable for Saint Gwen because Rhys wasn't good in bed... as lame excuses go, I suppose needing to run free isn't any worse.

[ceindreadh.livejournal.com]

WTF, the affair with Owen was apparently justifiable for Saint Gwen because Rhys wasn't good in bed

WTF? Are people actually citing that as an excuse? Seriously?
IMO, Gwen shagged Owen because she could. All her 'needing somebody to talk to' was just so much bullshit to salve her own conscience. If she hadn't joined Torchwood, she would have probably ended up shagging Andy the first time she'd had a 'bad day'.

[bettathnbarbie.livejournal.com]

Don't remember where I saw it. Hopefully it wasn't said ironically and I remember it as serious. That would be embarrassing; I hate to think I'm that humorless.

I agree about "needing someone to talk to." I know people who work under non-disclosure agreements and they don't fuck their co-workers and drug their partners...

[(Anonymous)]

I believe that Julie Gardner said that during one of the question-and-answer sessions at one of the cons where she attended. I'm not claiming certainty on that, but I believe a question was raised regarding Gwen, Owen, and Rhys and the reasoning given by Gardner was that Gwen turned to Owen because no one outside of Torchwood could understand or comfort her. I don't get it, but there is no point arguing with a Torchwood producer about why Gwen does anything.
Has anyone else seen the new SFX interview where RTD says that Torchwood is in fact over, but that the name is being kept for the reboot on Starz? At least it has been admitted now.

[bettathnbarbie.livejournal.com]

Can you give us a link? I haven't seen that article, but I'd like to read it.

And yes, you're right. No use arguing why any of the characters do anything. They have characters do all kinds of stupid things with little or no justification (going into a room with a tank full of poisonous gas, and trying to shoot it open without wearing protective gear comes to mind). Whatever they say, real answer seems to be, "Because we felt like it."

[woani21.livejournal.com]

Saying article was inaccurate on my part, because if I remember correctly it was actually during a videotaped Comic-Con panel that was put on Youtube. It was one that I believe took place after season 2 wrapped up, since there was some pseudo-sad line about missing Tosh and Owen and how emotional everyone on the cast was about it. I no longer have the specific link, in truth I now avoid watching any panel videos, but hopefully someone here will recognize the video that I'm talking about.