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So, what does the average woman buy when she gets a bit of money for Christmas? Clothes? Make-up? Jewellery? Perfume? Shoes?
My niece generally buys clothes or puts it towards a holiday. My sister almost always buys a new handbag, one of those expensive ones.
Me? I bought a small meteorite...
Wonder what that says about me 0_0
Guess I'll never be the average woman!
My niece generally buys clothes or puts it towards a holiday. My sister almost always buys a new handbag, one of those expensive ones.
Me? I bought a small meteorite...
Wonder what that says about me 0_0
Guess I'll never be the average woman!
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Date: 2011-12-29 04:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-29 05:02 pm (UTC)I hadn't got a meteorite, they can be a bit pricy even for small ones (I'm on a budget), but I happened across one being auctioned on Christmas Day and there was only one other bidder, so I took a chance =)
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Date: 2011-12-29 04:27 pm (UTC)Photo of your meteorite????
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Date: 2011-12-29 05:06 pm (UTC)I think I should have been a geologist or something - I do love rocks, lol!
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Date: 2011-12-29 05:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-29 06:27 pm (UTC)I've never fitted in, never been interested in things the other kids found fascinating - clothes and fashion, the latest pop group, make-up, it all just bored me. But I loved rocks, fossils, bones and shells, loved going around natural history museums or beachcombing on holidays. I really should have been a geologist or archaeologist. I'd rather be different, it's more fun!
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Date: 2011-12-29 06:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-29 06:33 pm (UTC)I will try to photograph it when there's some decent light. Don't expect anything pretty or sparkly though - it's black and barely 2 centimetres across! My Christmas present from mum is a more likely candidate for the term 'pretty' - it's a nugget of Egyptian Turquoise!
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Date: 2011-12-30 01:20 am (UTC)That would have been such an interesting career. I am weird because I loved dinosaurs in my teens and 20's...still do and at the time before dinosaurs became really popular, usually just boys. I thought they were so amazing! Creatures that walled the earth so long ago, I didn't see them as monsters. Maybe I should have been a paleontologist. lol! They don't make much money I hear...but then neither do I on Social Security Disability. lol!
I even bought a book on them and studied up on them, no computers at the time, I'm old. There was a time I could have told you many facts about them, types, sizes, etc. Now I would have to go back and study again, but I still know some things.
Jarrasic Park blew me away! I still love it. So amazing how they made them look real and going by animals today, picked colors most likely they would have had, I guess to blend in. Though no one knows for sure. My favorite has always been the brontosaurus, next in line brachiosaurus. So huge, the earth must have shook when they walked! :D
I'll shut-up now.
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Date: 2011-12-30 11:57 am (UTC)I LOVE Jurassic Park - I've got the DVDs. Is it terrible to admit that I actually really enjoy all the movies, not just the first one (though that's still the best). I wa always fascinated by the Stegosaurus and Triceratops, but I love pteradodons (Yay Myfanwy) as well.
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Date: 2011-12-31 10:09 pm (UTC)I know we have Jurassic Park on DVD and I think we have the 3rd one which I loved too! I was a little disappointed in the story of the 2nd one, but I think that is when I started seeing more and different kinds of dinosaurs. Yeah I agree the first was the best. Saw it first at the therater and wow!...what ride. I loved seeing it on the big screen, best way to see dinosaurs! Really cool. I am the same way about favorite sci-fi movies, got to see them on the big screen at least once. :D
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Date: 2011-12-31 11:20 pm (UTC)I don't get out much because of health issues so I haven't been to the cinema in many years, but in my teens I saw the original Star Wars films on the big screen, breathtaking! Also Superman. I've only seen Jurassic Park on TV screens, so it's not as dramatic that way. Ah well, at least since the invention of DVDs I can watch all the big films at home. Well, if I can afford the DVDs anyway, Lol!
Less than an hour now unti the new year here in Central England! I'd better do my New Year post! Someone has started their fireworks early!
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Date: 2012-01-01 12:11 am (UTC)Oh yes! In my teens and 20's, my best friend and I saw all 3 at the theaters. There were no VCR's remember so they would bring the movies back in the summers a lot and I'm not kidding, we saw "Return of the Jedi" (my personal favorite) 7 times! lol! Of course I know crazy people saw the first "Star Wars" movie like 100 times or some such craziness. Those movies were fun and they did touch a lot of us.
The characters of the movies in the late 70's and 80's were actually my favorites even though computer special effects had not been made, perfected, however you say that, for movies. It was the people not the special effects that got me the most, though I do love them! It was the Sc-fi that drew me in. I still love those characters. I can still watch those movies 20 something years later. Is that right? lol! I'm old. ;)
I love it all, they just need to make sure they include a good story or it is just ships flying around with bad actors and bad dialog.
Note:(please ignore all bad spelling in many of my posts that I miss or am too lazy to fix.)
Do I ever shut-up?!
btw. Happy New Year!
I need to go write my post too.
:D
♥
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Date: 2012-01-01 12:35 am (UTC)I've loved Sci-Fi for as long as I can remember. I grew up with Classic Star Trek and Doctor Who. I was a Spock fan at the age of six =) My sister is older, she had a huge crush on Captain Kirk!
Half past midnight and I think the fireworks have stopped. I was watching them out my window, very pretty! I suppose everyone is going to bed now. I probably should myself. Wow! It's suddenly next year!
Hope it's an amazing one for you! *hugs tight*
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Date: 2012-01-01 01:05 am (UTC)Can I ask where you live? It maybe on your profile page.
I'm in the US. Chattanooga, TN if I hadn't told you yet or you knew. I think it is on my profile page as Hixson...our part of the county and they won't let me change it. Grrrrrrrr! Not sure why.
Haven't seen any fireworks yet. Doubt we will go out tonight. We do some years.
Yeah, I actually like the orginal Star Wars movies the best. The new ones where he added stuff to it was strange to me. I was like...why is that there?
Oh! I'm a huge Star Trek fan too. I see we are going to get along well. lol! I really got into "The Next Generation" too. Well not at first, too loyal to the first group, but then I was taping every episode of the new one while I was at work, JCPenney at the time in my early 20's.
I love Spock! My favorite movie was the one he Lenorad (can't spell, is that right) Nimoy did about the whales. Absolutely hysterical!...and wonderful. I laughed and cried.
I learned about Torchwood by accident on a post of someone I didn't know. I went to YouTube and watch some parts of it and loved it! Then I bought the DVD's...still need COE. even though it is hard to watch. They did some great acting I think, but IANTO! He did a great job too, sadder than his hysterical humor of season 2, but very very good. Why was Jack so cold to him a lot? :**( except when Ianto was dieing anyway and then it was too late! I want to call Jack a name, but I love him too much anyway.
I then only really learned about Dr. Who after TW. So I have seen very little Dr. Who. Haven't really gotten into it yet except have watched a few shows with Jack in them. The 2 so far with Tennant. I really like him. I think I would like the 9th dr. too from a part of an episode on Youtube with Jack and Rose. Remember "the sonic screwdriver" and Jack with his banana?! Laughed my ass off! I want to see that whole episode. I bought one Dr. Who DVD that I have not watched much of yet that I got because it has "The Stolen Earth" which I watched and now need to watch I think it is "Journey's End?" with Ianto and Gwen. The ones before TW COE. They are fun! Ianto with his big gun, fighting the daleks and Captain Jack Harkness using his watch to disappear and travel to save Dr. Who and Rose.
Sorry, I am writting so much. Not like me. lol!
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Date: 2012-01-01 12:02 pm (UTC)I'm in the East Midlands, near Nottingham - Robin Hood country, lol!
Oh yes, that's my favourite Star Trek movie too, Spock swimming with the Whales - it was serious and funny at the same time, because of the Whale conservation issues. I love Whales!
I watched most of the Next Generation - might have missed a few episodes here and there.
My first Doctor was the third, Jon Pertwee, then I watched all of Tom Baker's. I drifted a bit after that because I was in my teens and working, going out with my friend etc, so Saturday evenings I wasn't watching TV. I was so glad when it came back. The old episodes seem really slow and dated now but I did love them when I was little!
Christopher Eccleston was brilliant, I loved him. I loved David Tennant too, but sometimes Ten's attitude towards Jack annoyed me. He treated Jack very badly at times. I adore Matt Smith, he's really put the fun back into the Doctor. Ten got a bit angsty and emo towards the end, but Eleven is a delight!
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Date: 2012-01-02 10:48 pm (UTC)BTW. I loved the "Robin Hood"...can't remember the name, Prince of thieves?...with Kevin Costner and a bunch of other people I loved! I need to watch that movie again. It was so much fun. No tights on Robin Hood, modern day cool pants. lol!
I looked on your profile page and saw you were in "the United Kingdom" I think...I hate my memory. Is it pretty in the East midlands? I bet it is being near Nottingham country. :) (excuse me for my stupidness.)
That's right Christopher Eccleston, the 9th doctor right, he seemed hysterical in Youtube clip. Would like to see him too.
I heard that about Ten treating Jack badly from
Of course not seen Matt Smith at all. I have a lot to catch up on. lol! I'm glad he is fun.
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Date: 2012-01-03 12:07 am (UTC)Some of the East Midlands is pretty - some is really... not. Depends where you are. I'll have to try to email you a couple of photos of Wollaton Hall which isn't far from where I live. I don't get out much, but I did manage to get there for an outing a couple of years ago. Hadn't been in years, but it hadn't changed much. When I get my own computer (which has finally got a new hard drive) up and running with all my files on it, I'll send some pics. They're not on this computer, which is borrowed. It's a lovely place. The Hall is a huge stately home which is now a Natural History museum and it's in parklands with a lake. There are even deer in the park. In Spring there are Rhododendrons flowering all around the lake, but when I went they'd finished flowering. Pity, as it's a wonderful sight. I took photos of the Hall and the lake.
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Date: 2012-01-03 06:10 am (UTC)I would like to see the photos. :) It sounds beautiful. I would die without my computer. I hope you get yours back soon. My hard-drive has died more than once. It was awful! I'm glad I had most of my stuff backed-up. My husband puts computers together so he always fixes mine thank goodness.
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Date: 2012-01-03 06:18 pm (UTC)Jack was eager to see the Doctor because he wanted answers. He wanted to know how he had become immortal, why the Doctor had abandoned him on the Gamestation in the future and whether the Doctor could fix him and make him mortal again. The Doctor wasnn't exactly helpful, couldn't fix Jack and I think Jack realised he needed to get on with his life an Earth so he asked Ianto out.
I'll try to send some photos in the next few days, though I might have to send them separately, so you might get several emails!
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Date: 2012-01-06 08:33 pm (UTC)I need to back up my files again. I keep procrasting on it and I hope my hard-drive doesn't die anytime soon. lol! Michael does have it mirrored which he says if one dies then the other still has all my info on it which is 4 thousand icons and pictures mostly of Jack and Ianto! lol!...My most important stuff stays back up everytime I add it, being my little boy Alex. I have his pictures in several places.
I have some fanfic, but mostly links to places to read them, bunches of old I want to read. Oh you mean you back up the stuff you write. I have never written a fanfic. Not sure I could.
So glad you got your computer and your Ianto back! He is so sweet. :) ♥
Ok, I think I am beginning to understand the relationship between Jack and the Doctor. Very strange the way Ten acted, and it makes sense that Jack would want to see if he could be fixed though in the end we found out that Jack wanted to stay immortal in season 4. if you watched it. I think you said you didn't. Well he said it in Season 2 on the first episode...I guess it was because he became mortal again and it made him question it again. I hope I haven't ruined things. I believe you meant you didn't watch it and didn't want to anyway....so it is ok to spoil it. I'm crazy!
Yes, would like to see the photos.
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Date: 2012-01-06 09:15 pm (UTC)I think Jack would have wanted to become mortal to have a life with Ianto, but with Ianto gone he wanted to live to remember him. That's my theory anyway!
Oh, I back up loads of fanfiction, not just what I write (I've only written a handful anyway). I download anything that looks interesting, then I can read even when I'm not online, if the internet goes down or whatever! I think I have over 2000 complete series (some are Doctor Who or crossovers) and over 1000 series that aren't complete but I add new chapters when they're posted. I'll comment on them when I read them. It does make it easier to find them online because I know the date they were posted. It'll make it easier to pick series for my weekly series reading challenge! I've got over 20,000 short stories probably, then loads of 2, 3 or 4-parters! In my weird ex-librarian mind, I don't consider a story to be a series until it's at least 5 chapters long, lol!
I've got thousands of icons saved as well. And a lot of other Torchwood pictures - wallpapers and manips and a few screen captures.
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Date: 2012-01-07 05:17 am (UTC)I totally agree with you on this. I hadn't thought about it that way. *cries*
Wow! That's a lot of fanfic! I will NEVER keep up with you. I haven't even started the first one. lol! I've lost already on your weekly challenge. I wish I was a speed reader!
I may start collecting stuff fanfic too, just never seem to have the time + I am trying my hand at making icons from TW pics mostly with an editing program I downloaded. So far really only got two that I really liked and uploaded to my user pics. I may have one more that was so-so on there. Not sure if I took it off.
I would like to learn more about making icons, I can't put words on them. I see others with great backgrounds and words (different fonts) and so on. I take captures and try to lighten them usually for wallpaper for my computer.
I had no idea, but there are very "few" pictures of Ianto and jack where you can see them at the same time, you know side by side or like when Ianto sat on Jack's desk before they kissed. Plenty of them individually, but I want wallpaper with them together. It is always some very serious or sad shot too. TW shows are very serious though and I heard Dr. Who has always been on the dark side too, just more for a family audience than TW. RTD doesn't believe in happiness except for a few jokes between characters I guess.
I did think Ianto's humor in S2 was the BEST ever. I just loved his dry/welch humor! He was a darling.
Jack and Naked hide & seek:
Ianto; He cheats, he always cheats.
Ok, bored you enough.
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Date: 2012-01-07 01:10 pm (UTC)I managed to read 2 chapters last night, and one chapter on each of the previous 2 nights, so I'll read the coda tonight. I'll try to post about my weekly fic each Monday I think, hopefully that will work. I hope you do get a chance to read this one as I thought it was excellent.
I have no idea at all how to make icons, though I'd like to. Not that I have time to take up something else right now, but at some point it would be fun to try. I'd like to make some out of photos I've taken.
Oh yes, Ianto was really funny in Season 2 - I think Jack brings out that side of him, the more lighthearted side, because being with him makes Ianto happy! That was seriously missing in CoE, all the light-hearted stuff. It was far too gloomy for me. Torchwood is dark but optimistic, CoE was dark and hopeless. Doctor Who can be dark and scary, but it's fun too, and things usually work out in the end.
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Date: 2012-01-07 09:36 pm (UTC)We love Star Trek and you notice how even when it seems immpossible, the captain always finds a way without killing his or her crew. Ok, it is fantasy, always happy endings...but it sci-fi! Anything can happen in science fiction! So why does Jack only way out to save the human race is to kill one person...RTD looks at it that way. I think I would find another way to save us, or just let us all die before I would kill someone, especially a child. Stupid RTD! Not sure I worded this right, I'm being rushed by my husband. lol!
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Date: 2012-01-07 10:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-10 04:19 am (UTC)I really hate RTD and shouldn't hate anyone. I just don't understand him. Take a great show with great characters, kill most of them off and break our hearts. I loved them all even Gwen at first, not so much now. I watched them on DVD., not live TV. and just couldn't believe how it went from so cool to just horrible at the end of COE. Who are these people we'd loved...though Ianto always stayed sweet and caring to me, and a hero.
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Date: 2012-01-10 12:51 pm (UTC)I have to admit I didn't like Gwen in the first episode and she went downhill in my opinion from them on. In the first episode, she left her post while she was on duty in order to spy on people she's been told are Special Ops, lied to Rhys for no reason whatsover, acted like an idiot during the bar fight and got hurt, then got a caretaker killed at the hospital, then abandoned her partner and took the patrol car... And I'm supposed to identify with and admire this woman? No way. The only reason I could think of for Jack hiring her was because he wasn't thinking clearly after being shot through the head. So much could have been done with the character, but every single opportunity was wasted. If she'd been an investigative reporter, some of her behaviour (the nosiness) would have made more sense, but she's supposed to be a police constable, someone who knows the importance of chain of command and following orders...
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Date: 2012-01-17 07:18 am (UTC)In ummm? himmm? heee? the 4th series she bacame worse hard and cold most of the time. The only thing I liked about her was she could "really kick ass!"
Carrying her baby and walking straight ahead, determinded look on her face while shooting through her window at a hellicopter heading for her house. She didn't take any crap from anyone!...but that was about it.
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Date: 2012-01-17 10:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-17 01:08 pm (UTC)There were plenty of other times she kicked-ass once she arrived in American with Jack. Baby safely back in England/Welch country?...with daddy. I can't explain it, she just cracked me up when she would tell some thug to get his hands off her, pitching a fit, or have her gun aimed at someone with her attitude. It worked for her there, but it did not make her a nice person around others that were suppose to be her friends. She was hard and abrasive, my husband thought.
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Date: 2012-01-17 11:21 pm (UTC)No one is a more kick ass than Ripley! That just would not be possible! Sarah Connor in T2 was pretty good, but Ripley is number one!
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Date: 2012-01-19 02:54 am (UTC)I always wondered if Jack could really love anyone anymore because he had lived so long caring about people only to watch them die. Maybe he couldn't say "I love you" to Ianto because it would just hurt too much though we all know now, he did. :*(
Unfortunatly we only found out in the radio play, I mean I'm glad he finally said it, but I wanted him to say it on the show....not the horrid COE...or say it in COE. somewhere, when he was dying back to Ianto!...though that would be my last choice because dies! He is still alive as far as I'm concerned. :)
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Date: 2012-01-19 10:53 am (UTC)I always thought it wasn't about Gwen in particular at her wedding, just that she was the bride and he was remembering his own wedding. Plus, Jack always flirts with everyone, so I never considered he was particularly attracted to Gwen, she just wanted to believe she was special in his eyes. A lot of the time when he looks at her, he just looks annoyed. There didn't seem, to me at least, to be any chemistry there. And anyway, throughout the whole of the 3 series (I completely ignore Miracle Day because to me that's not Torchwood), Jack was never seen to be getting any action with anyone but Ianto. He never made a move on Gwen and if he wanted her that badly, nothing would have stopped him. I think he just enjoyed her hero worship of him.
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Date: 2012-01-19 04:49 pm (UTC)I read early on RTD actually was thinking they would kill off Ianto sooner than they did. (I think?) then something happened, good I guess, maybe the chemistry between Jack and Ianto, I don't know. It was so "obvious" at least the way they wrote it & I guess RTD wrote it too?... and for a "second" he must have realized it, only to screw it up in COE., because "no one in "reality" can live long while being part of TW" (not a direct quote)...hey dumbass! This is Sci-fi! Anything CAN happen in it! Do you ever watch any?!
Dumb sh%$^#! If the fans wanted reality, they would watch a heavy duty, based on true life drama-shows or movies! I want to have fun not cry and feel bad!...worry well who going to die next that I love!
Sorry, I'm ranting. I will try not to bash the crap out of RTD...so much. No promises. :D
Yeah I did think the same thing about Gwen, not just the hardness, but sleeping with Owen, lusting after Jack, but suppose to be in love with Rhys & marry him. Stupid, something about not being about to talk about her job to anyone outside TW even her boyfriend. The had sex didn't talk.
I must of missed that or misunderstood what was happening with Jack at Gwen's wedding, I feel like others did too from some things I have read. Is that the one where Jack opend a box of pics from his wedding to a girl and he smiled?...it was at the end of the show. He seemed happy and I didn't get it.
Yes Jack in "that" TW was a big flirt with everyone and would have sex with anyone they implied, like you said I never saw him with anyone except the hothouse scene with Ianto. YAY!
Yeah he was annoyed at her a lot. She seemed to always want to take over if she could and and clearly Jack was the boss in S1, S2 and S3.
I saw no chemistry either, though they wrote it like there was...did I miss that? They spent a lot of time together talking. He wanted "her" to drive him to the place he killed Abagon. "She" stayed with him and believed he would come back to life instead of Ianto who seem to hide in the back ground believing he had lost his Jack forever.
Also I know you didn't watch S4, I don't know why I did? I just love Jack I guess, but it mostly sucked. Gwen seem to take over and they made out like Jack was only gay because it was likely that no one in American knew anything about Jack. He was a whole other Jack, who didn't flirt anymore. I hated that!
He was still the hero, but he didn't seem like the Jack of the old TW. I am sure RTD wanted it that way, new and fresh I think he said. He thought a show would be cancelled if it wasn't changed.
NCIS is still going and is in it's 9th season right now (so far only one member died and she was not one I liked much and it was early in S2) not Sci-fi, but still RTD might want to check out a few of the long running shows we have and have had here for many years, excluding the dumb-ass reality shows, which I will not watch, they damaged brain cells in my opinoin. LOL! If you like them oops! Not sure what they show in the UK.
Oh I am so chatty again!
You are probably right about the hero worship Jack liked from Gwen, but why did he say he came back for "her" like he wanted to marry her (in my opinion) when he returned in S2. It was their talk when he found out she was going to marry.
Wow! I'm tired! You'll be lucky to get through this post. Hope you read it in your email. This maybe the one that goes down the right side of the page on the site. It is getting bad!
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Date: 2012-01-19 05:16 pm (UTC)Why is RTD obsessed with Gwen? Who knows! He seems to be under the impression that she's what all women aspire to be. Really, really NOT. If I was Gwen, I'd throw myself under the nearest bus. I have nothing against flawed characters if they learn from their mistakes and grow, or if they are treated as flawed. Gwen was treated as some kind of untouchable saint who was so special, nothing bad would ever happen to her, despite all the times she screwed up and had to be rescued and despite the way bodies piled up around her.
Anyway, I agree with everything you say, I just cannot understand why she was repeatedly shoved down our throats. I didn't find her remotely likeable. I hope there won't be more Torchwood on screen (unless it's a complete reboot) because if there is, it will be all about Gwen. *sigh* She was the least interesting character and we knew everything about her. We only found out anything about the others when they were about to die. So much potential wasted.
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Date: 2012-01-19 11:13 pm (UTC)I love your icon, I have it somewhere in my collection of icons. Thought about uploading it sometime. So funny!
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Date: 2012-01-01 01:16 am (UTC)