I think most of my B7 opinions are solidly in the mainstream, and the only answers I can think of are ones I've given before in other iterations of this meme. Sorry.
1. Series 1 was better than series 2. A lot better.
2. Torchwood isn't nearly as progressive about gay issues as the show's creators and viewers like to think. Series 1 gave us the Evil Lesbian (who then became a Dead Lesbian), while series 2 eliminated same-sex anything for most of the characters. The same-sex relationships that we did see (Jack/Ianto and Jack/John Hart) were presented as primarily sexual and not emotionally meaningful like male/female relationships (such as Jack's thing for Gwen, or Jack's marriage in the scene where we saw him moping over his old wedding photo).
3. There's nothing in canon to suggest that Jack would never/could not choose to be monogamous. If people want to write him in open or poly relationships, fine. But it irks me when people claim canon proves that Jack is only and always non-monogamous. That's simply not true.
I don't think I've read enough RPF to have opinions, popular or unpopular. But I can give you unpopular opinions related to Shakespeare and/or Marlowe.
1. Had Marlowe lived, he would've become a more complex and interesting writer than Shakespeare became.
2. Shakespeare would still have been the better stylist, though.
3. Shakespeare would probably also have a higher place in the conventional literary canon, because his plays are (with a few exceptions) less fundamentally disturbing than one imagines Marlowe's would have been.
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2. The shoot-em-up at the end goes on for far, far too long.
3. Janine, Nicholas's ex-girlfriend, is not a heartless bitch.
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2. Torchwood isn't nearly as progressive about gay issues as the show's creators and viewers like to think. Series 1 gave us the Evil Lesbian (who then became a Dead Lesbian), while series 2 eliminated same-sex anything for most of the characters. The same-sex relationships that we did see (Jack/Ianto and Jack/John Hart) were presented as primarily sexual and not emotionally meaningful like male/female relationships (such as Jack's thing for Gwen, or Jack's marriage in the scene where we saw him moping over his old wedding photo).
3. There's nothing in canon to suggest that Jack would never/could not choose to be monogamous. If people want to write him in open or poly relationships, fine. But it irks me when people claim canon proves that Jack is only and always non-monogamous. That's simply not true.
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1. Had Marlowe lived, he would've become a more complex and interesting writer than Shakespeare became.
2. Shakespeare would still have been the better stylist, though.
3. Shakespeare would probably also have a higher place in the conventional literary canon, because his plays are (with a few exceptions) less fundamentally disturbing than one imagines Marlowe's would have been.
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I should watch more old-school Who after I'm done with the TOS rewatch; it should wash out the nasty taste from the mouth.
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