I agree with everything... except Owen being redeemable. He was a rapist who never had to pay for it in any fashion.
The sad part is that even though he's a rapist, I still like him better than Gwen, because at least he was consistently a bastard (imho). I'd trust him to save my life. I wouldn't trust being alone in a room with him.
I hate myself sometimes for how much I hate Gwen, when every other character in the series has flaws and in some cases, much worse flaws. Hell, when you really look at her character, in every way she's caused the least HARM of all of them, even factoring in her fuckups here and there.
Ianto caused the deaths of two innocent people and almost ended the world and he's my favorite character.
Jack gave away children and was generally 'needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few all the time', but he was Jack, so, um, yeah.
Tosh was a traitor - for a good cause, but she still caused harm with her actions. She paid for her mistakes though, so maybe she and Gwen are tied and I like her much better as a character, :).
Owen never redeemed himself (in my eyes). Ever. I disliked him in some ways more than I disliked Gwen and that's saying something.
And Gwen. She just bothered me literally from Day One. I wanted the show to be through Jack's eyes and when it was through hers I was seriously disappointed. It all went downhill from there, :(, mostly because there was never a good reason why Jack kept her around. She wasn't a genius, she wasn't a sniper, she wasn't a weapons expert, she wasn't expert in ANYTHING except lying to Rhys for no good reason (in the first episode, she lies about being near the murder scene - why?) and well, I have a serious issue with a woman who has a great guy at home and treats him like dirt. I'm married to a guy that Rhys reminds me of and seeing Gwen treat him like that really pissed me off.
So, um, yeah. I'm thinking that I'm actually going to have to write my own post on this and get it all out, preferably before the new series comes out and Jack comes back to Earth because of his 'unstated love for Gwen Cooper'. For serious.
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Date: 2010-11-07 08:43 am (UTC)The sad part is that even though he's a rapist, I still like him better than Gwen, because at least he was consistently a bastard (imho). I'd trust him to save my life. I wouldn't trust being alone in a room with him.
I hate myself sometimes for how much I hate Gwen, when every other character in the series has flaws and in some cases, much worse flaws. Hell, when you really look at her character, in every way she's caused the least HARM of all of them, even factoring in her fuckups here and there.
Ianto caused the deaths of two innocent people and almost ended the world and he's my favorite character.
Jack gave away children and was generally 'needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few all the time', but he was Jack, so, um, yeah.
Tosh was a traitor - for a good cause, but she still caused harm with her actions. She paid for her mistakes though, so maybe she and Gwen are tied and I like her much better as a character, :).
Owen never redeemed himself (in my eyes). Ever. I disliked him in some ways more than I disliked Gwen and that's saying something.
And Gwen. She just bothered me literally from Day One. I wanted the show to be through Jack's eyes and when it was through hers I was seriously disappointed. It all went downhill from there, :(, mostly because there was never a good reason why Jack kept her around. She wasn't a genius, she wasn't a sniper, she wasn't a weapons expert, she wasn't expert in ANYTHING except lying to Rhys for no good reason (in the first episode, she lies about being near the murder scene - why?) and well, I have a serious issue with a woman who has a great guy at home and treats him like dirt. I'm married to a guy that Rhys reminds me of and seeing Gwen treat him like that really pissed me off.
So, um, yeah. I'm thinking that I'm actually going to have to write my own post on this and get it all out, preferably before the new series comes out and Jack comes back to Earth because of his 'unstated love for Gwen Cooper'. For serious.
I just threw up in my mouth a little.