Gwen at least carried the vestiges of "hey, people have rights and using retcon like aspirin is bad."
Except of course when it's to her benefit. I can look at "Combat" and say, well, in the first season they were all assholes and idiots. By "Something Borrowed," she insists over all common sense and proper procedure on telling lies that she knows will have to be fixed, gets someone killed, and at the end is blithely okay with drugging all her friends and family. (Also, where this behavior would have earned any of the others serious professional and personal repercussions, she gets a honeymoon.) It would be a fascinating story to see someone who came into a morally ambiguous group and tried to change them, only to fall herself, and I think some of the writing staff were aiming for that. Unfortunately, RTD is too invested in the character to allow for admitting her faults, so while the canon showed us her screwups, they're not acknowledged as on-going problems. And now he says he wants to go back to more Gwen-focused stories.
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Date: 2010-06-08 01:37 pm (UTC)Except of course when it's to her benefit. I can look at "Combat" and say, well, in the first season they were all assholes and idiots. By "Something Borrowed," she insists over all common sense and proper procedure on telling lies that she knows will have to be fixed, gets someone killed, and at the end is blithely okay with drugging all her friends and family. (Also, where this behavior would have earned any of the others serious professional and personal repercussions, she gets a honeymoon.) It would be a fascinating story to see someone who came into a morally ambiguous group and tried to change them, only to fall herself, and I think some of the writing staff were aiming for that. Unfortunately, RTD is too invested in the character to allow for admitting her faults, so while the canon showed us her screwups, they're not acknowledged as on-going problems. And now he says he wants to go back to more Gwen-focused stories.