One more on Torchwood: Children of Earth
You know how I said Russell T. Davies was probably a nice guy?
He actually kinda is a class A a**hole, apparently.
Cute little quote:
Nothing's happened. It's simply a few people typing. I'm glad they're typing because they’re that involved. But if you can’t handle drama you shouldn’t watch it. Find something else. Go look at poetry. Poetry’s wonderful.
He really actually said, "if fans don't like what I do, they can 'go look at poetry' (and apart from anything else: go look at poetry? Is he seriously implying his own fans are illiterate morons or something, here? Because that's what I'm getting) or 'go watch another show.'" (As he also says later.)
Another cute little quote:
Question: One of my readers wondered if you were under pressure to de-gay Torchwood and that's why you killed him off.
DAVIES: I think you can forget about people picking up gay rights as an issue. It's rather like children picking up nursery blocks and waving them in the air but having no idea what it entails. We’re talking about issues in my entire life here, not just one small television program. If they did research they’d go and look at the history of gay and lesbian characters that I have put on screen. They should simply grow up, do some research, and stop riding on a bandwagon that they actually don’t know anything about.
Because OF COURSE there can be no gay people/activists/scholars/etc in his illiterate and stupid precious audience. He's the only one who ever understood what being gay means and what everyone who's ever been gay in the world needs. Look! And he can totally TELL YOU and be all paternalising about it. Because HE IS GAY, you people. (In fact, I bet he's also a lesbian, maybe even pregnant, at that, so don't you go questioning him about female characters, either. Don't you dare! After all, it's not as if your opinion counts or anything.)
So, um.
Really?!
Class A a**hole, all the way.
I'm going to find other people's shows to watch from now on, Mr Davies. Thank you for that tip, at least, and good. Bye.
Jerk.
He actually kinda is a class A a**hole, apparently.
Cute little quote:
Nothing's happened. It's simply a few people typing. I'm glad they're typing because they’re that involved. But if you can’t handle drama you shouldn’t watch it. Find something else. Go look at poetry. Poetry’s wonderful.
He really actually said, "if fans don't like what I do, they can 'go look at poetry' (and apart from anything else: go look at poetry? Is he seriously implying his own fans are illiterate morons or something, here? Because that's what I'm getting) or 'go watch another show.'" (As he also says later.)
Another cute little quote:
Question: One of my readers wondered if you were under pressure to de-gay Torchwood and that's why you killed him off.
DAVIES: I think you can forget about people picking up gay rights as an issue. It's rather like children picking up nursery blocks and waving them in the air but having no idea what it entails. We’re talking about issues in my entire life here, not just one small television program. If they did research they’d go and look at the history of gay and lesbian characters that I have put on screen. They should simply grow up, do some research, and stop riding on a bandwagon that they actually don’t know anything about.
Because OF COURSE there can be no gay people/activists/scholars/etc in his illiterate and stupid precious audience. He's the only one who ever understood what being gay means and what everyone who's ever been gay in the world needs. Look! And he can totally TELL YOU and be all paternalising about it. Because HE IS GAY, you people. (In fact, I bet he's also a lesbian, maybe even pregnant, at that, so don't you go questioning him about female characters, either. Don't you dare! After all, it's not as if your opinion counts or anything.)
So, um.
Really?!
Class A a**hole, all the way.
I'm going to find other people's shows to watch from now on, Mr Davies. Thank you for that tip, at least, and good. Bye.
Jerk.