Dude, Gwen is the saint/Mary Sue that is also a total selfish slut/whore. How did you miss that memo? And if you think these things should be mutually exclusive, that's just cause you're doing it wrong.
Yeah, I will never, ever, ever get past the idiocy of the entitled belief that killing a character is somehow meant to punish either the character, or the audience.
Back when Tara was killed on Buffy, fans were hating on Joss Whedon, claiming he was a heartless bastard. His response? That NO ONE cried harder than he did over Tara's death. That he had been forced to walk out of story meetings to take a moment alone a few times when the subject came up.
J.K. Rowling - I'm not sure she ever told us which character it was - but also told the story of approaching a character's death and having to walk away from her desk, momentarily unable to go through with it. It was eventually her husband that talked her back.
I think part of the problem RTD is facing right now is in how he presents himself. He has a very dark sense of humour. There is a quote it the Writer's Tale about Voyage of the Damned where he is discussing how writing ten person scenes is so hard that he can't wait to start killing the poor bastards. I think people are feeling so emotionally bruised/sensitive right now, that they aren't taking his comments with the humourous tone with which they are intended. And forgetting that no matter how seriously you take a character death, the decision was WAY more serious and difficult for the creator.
Meanwhile, did you pay any attention to the wank report re CoE? It was around sixty comments in that someone tried to conjure the name of Rose. Fortunately the wankas didn't go for the bait and it was dropped. But, you know, further evidence for your closer to one theory.
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Yeah, I will never, ever, ever get past the idiocy of the entitled belief that killing a character is somehow meant to punish either the character, or the audience.
Back when Tara was killed on Buffy, fans were hating on Joss Whedon, claiming he was a heartless bastard. His response? That NO ONE cried harder than he did over Tara's death. That he had been forced to walk out of story meetings to take a moment alone a few times when the subject came up.
J.K. Rowling - I'm not sure she ever told us which character it was - but also told the story of approaching a character's death and having to walk away from her desk, momentarily unable to go through with it. It was eventually her husband that talked her back.
I think part of the problem RTD is facing right now is in how he presents himself. He has a very dark sense of humour. There is a quote it the Writer's Tale about Voyage of the Damned where he is discussing how writing ten person scenes is so hard that he can't wait to start killing the poor bastards. I think people are feeling so emotionally bruised/sensitive right now, that they aren't taking his comments with the humourous tone with which they are intended. And forgetting that no matter how seriously you take a character death, the decision was WAY more serious and difficult for the creator.
Meanwhile, did you pay any attention to the wank report re CoE? It was around sixty comments in that someone tried to conjure the name of Rose. Fortunately the wankas didn't go for the bait and it was dropped. But, you know, further evidence for your closer to one theory.