alright so I'm probably not exactly a fan so much as I am anti-anti-Gwen (really, what is the reason for so much hate?)
for me, with her characterization it was always a "everyman" theme. she is the one with whom the viewers are discovering the world through Torchwood's eyes.
so she is really supposed to be, IMHO, the most "normal" and there for she has a standard heroine's set of character traits; caring, curiosity, concern for the wellbeing of others, etc. and I think this is where people stop and claim she is boring or Mary-Sueish but she is also able to enter into the grey spaces. like sleeping with Owen, or retconning Rys(sp?) even after she knew of the long term effects. I suppose this paints her as kind of self-interested, the major examples of things that she does that are on the darker side are for herself. maybe it's just me, but I think it gives a deep enough view of her character that it keeps me interested. I'll seriously be dissappointed if they don't explore more with her greyer side in S2... because I can't see her character developing any more if they don't. There isn't anything left in just being happy couple with her bf and just going to work everyday.
the police style that she brought in kind of faded away, I really liked the profiling from "day one" but it just went away, we are not really shown that she stopped doing it, but we don't see it. so I'm sure that that kind of work, that helped them find Cherys and where she was before she went ratjam in ep2, is certainly something she brings to the team. along with a kind of sensitivity dealing with normal people that she got being police that the others can't quite manage because they don't have an interest in normal people unless they have something abnormal about them. and sometimes normal people are the keys to what is going on(Bernie, Eugene, etc).
okay that was probably way more vague than I intended(and probably than you wanted), but I can't seem to word it any better so, sorry.
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Date: 2007-08-06 01:55 pm (UTC)for me, with her characterization it was always a "everyman" theme. she is the one with whom the viewers are discovering the world through Torchwood's eyes.
so she is really supposed to be, IMHO, the most "normal" and there for she has a standard heroine's set of character traits; caring, curiosity, concern for the wellbeing of others, etc. and I think this is where people stop and claim she is boring or Mary-Sueish but she is also able to enter into the grey spaces. like sleeping with Owen, or retconning Rys(sp?) even after she knew of the long term effects.
I suppose this paints her as kind of self-interested, the major examples of things that she does that are on the darker side are for herself.
maybe it's just me, but I think it gives a deep enough view of her character that it keeps me interested.
I'll seriously be dissappointed if they don't explore more with her greyer side in S2... because I can't see her character developing any more if they don't. There isn't anything left in just being happy couple with her bf and just going to work everyday.
the police style that she brought in kind of faded away, I really liked the profiling from "day one" but it just went away, we are not really shown that she stopped doing it, but we don't see it. so I'm sure that that kind of work, that helped them find Cherys and where she was before she went ratjam in ep2, is certainly something she brings to the team.
along with a kind of sensitivity dealing with normal people that she got being police that the others can't quite manage because they don't have an interest in normal people unless they have something abnormal about them. and sometimes normal people are the keys to what is going on(Bernie, Eugene, etc).
okay that was probably way more vague than I intended(and probably than you wanted), but I can't seem to word it any better so, sorry.