Weird Correlation...

[blucougar.livejournal.com]

I can't help but be amused.

I have Google Alerts set to advise me of any mention of John Barrowman and Torchwood and today it popped up with articles on Eve Myles' appearance on BBC Breakfast.

Now, ordinarily I would ignore anything that her name is connected to primarily out of pure disinterest but for some reason, I clicked on one of the links. It was a very short article, which referred to her talking about some new show she's on, and that she doesn't know whether or when Torchwood will return.

I won't post the link, but what got my attention and gave me much amusement was this line:

"Myles was on the show (BBC Breakfast) to discuss her new BBC One drama Frankie in which she plays a District Nurse with a work addiction and messy personal life."

Work addiction and messy personal life? Really? Sound familiar to anyone...?

Comments

[mercury-gryphon.livejournal.com]

If the character sleeps with a rude doctor and drugs her boyfriend, Ms. Myles may be getting type cast.

[milady-dragon.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm calling typecasting.

It's too bad she's only good for one role. (Well, not really.)

[blucougar.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean. I admit I have only ever seen her in Doctor Who, Torchwood and the pilot episode of Merlin. None of those characters appealed to me whatsoever.

I don't actually disrespect Eve Myles as an actress. I do think she is talented. This might seem a back-handed compliment to her fans, but if she weren't a reasonable actress, I wouldn't give a rat's a** about Gwen. The fact that I feel so strongly about the character, even in a negative way, is as much credit to her breathing life into Gwen as it is to the writers who seemed to think the audience needed a character to relate to who is basically a lying slut. *cough*

I don't fault her for Gwen being written the way she was. Any issue I have with her as an actress is with the way she let RTD's Gwen-worship attitude go to her head. I'm afraid that my aggravation with her as an actress has much to do with when she described Gwen as the hero in the Series That Never Was, and Jack and Ianto as the comic relief. If it was meant as a joke, it sure as hell didn't sound like it.

I do find it somewhat bitterly humorous that she was quoted after CoE as saying that "the dead stay dead" in response to the demand for Ianto to be brought back, and yet in an interview about her appearance in Merlin hinted that she hoped they would find a way to resurrect her character. I think that's what I really don't like about her - the hypocrisy.

*sigh*

Sorry, I've had a bad day, and now I'm venting. It does feel better, though. :)

[ruby-took.livejournal.com]

The fact that I feel so strongly about the character, even in a negative way, is as much credit to her breathing life into Gwen as it is to the writers who seemed to think the audience needed a character to relate to who is basically a lying slut. *cough*

My feelings exactly. If, instead of ignoring Gwen's negative qualities or, horror of horrors, acting as if they were actually positive qualities, they'd embraced those negative qualities and made use of them, Gwen might have ended up a brilliant villain. For example, I watch "Game of Thrones", which gave us Cercei Lannister, who is certainly extremely unpleasant, but because that is actually acknowledged in the show, she's still a great character. In fact, it's not at all impossible to feel some grudging respect for her scheming and cold-hearted ruthlessness.

I do find it somewhat bitterly humorous that she was quoted after CoE as saying that "the dead stay dead" in response to the demand for Ianto to be brought back

Yes, I've always had issues with that as well. You know, if Gareth had been the one to express that sentiment, it wouldn't have felt so bad, because it was his character who got killed off. Hearing it come from the one who damn well knows nothing is ever going to happen to her character, well, it just rubs me up the wrong way. Not to mention that it always makes me think "Right, like Gwen stayed dead at the end of 'They Keep Killing Suzie', or how Rhys stayed dead at the end of the first season, or...". You're absolutely right: it's the hypocrisy that makes it so hard to swallow.

[dylantoms.livejournal.com]

So much to sympathise with here... In particular I HATE the only Ianto 'stays dead' attitude that they all have. She didn't apply that to Rhys did she?

[kamiandcat.livejournal.com]

She is also rather annoying in person, we saw her at a Con a few months ago, and even the bf who is more a DW fan and has only seen a few episodes of Tw found her terrible annoying. She kept acting like...dunno... a hyperactive ferret on speed (I apologize to all ferrets around), squeaking, making faces... basically copy catting Jb who happened to be around as well. It came over as 100% fake. If tried to separate Gwen from Eve, because it is not her fault her character is written the way it is, but I have to say the closer I get to EM the less I like her. Part of me thinks she's desperate and trying too much, because let's face it, her one big chance to make it in America, Torchwood, blew up. JB got a second chance with Arrow, but Miss Myles is not really US TV material. Shame really, Gwen's "not Barbie doll" looks where the only thing I liked about her.

[blucougar.livejournal.com]

I recall reading somewhere that EM doesn't particularly like doing the cons, mainly because she gets incredibly nervous. I heard rumours that a number of convention appearances were cancelled for that reason. If that's true, then it would account for her hyperactive behaviour, and your impression that she was fake.

I can also understand her trying to emulate JB when attending those sorts of events. I think that's how Gareth David-Lloyd learned to deal with fans, by following JB's lead. It's just that Gareth learned far more effectively than it would seem Eve has. Gareth has also learned to be himself, rather than trying to copy JB's personality.

I don't really like her as an actress. I don't know her to comment on her as a person, separate from her acting career. She may well be a perfectly lovely person privately, away from the public persona she puts forward. I don't know.

As far as making it on US TV goes, I think that was never going to happen for Eve, because she isn't the stereotypical Barbie doll beauty that seem to be prolific on US TV shows, and there seems to be a limit to the type of role she's capable of playing. JB, however, is incredibly versatile, and that will always benefit him. He'd already proven his mettle in playing the bad ex-boyfriend in "Desperate Housewives", so it wouldn't have been much of a stretch for producers to envisage him as the borderline psychopathic Malcolm Merlin in "Arrow".

It also goes in JB's favour that he is the embodiment of the "triple threat" - he can act, he can dance and he can sing. I don't know about Eve's dancing capabilities, but I do recall reading comments from JB and others that she cannot sing. I suspect that any degree of professional dancing is not a factor, either, and her acting skills just aren't suited to the typical US style of TV show.

[kamiandcat.livejournal.com]

And JB can charm people, maybe not everybody, but there is something about him that makes him a very good entertainer.

True, maybe Eve just hides behind the way she acted, but I don't think it did her any good.

[tlen2.livejournal.com]

read about this show somewhere awhile ago and my first thoughts were character sounds vety familiar and I know I never will watch this

[tlen2.livejournal.com]

I never saw her on merlin.  actually never saw her besides TW. but my friend who watched both shiws keps telling me that she loved merlin because she got what she deserved and she just sees it as revenge for gwen as well.

[kamiandcat.livejournal.com]

I think there's a video of it on Youtube somewhere, if you want to feel the satisfaction as well. ;)

[janiemc.livejournal.com]

Ah yes Frankie, as far as I can see from the spiel & trailers, she reprises Gwen minus aliens....I have yet to see her in anything where she engages my sympathy/interest, as to her DW appearance, I only later realised it was her & sadly again a character I wasn't engaged with....I avoided Melin until Gawaine, so can't commen on that one.

[dylantoms.livejournal.com]

Frankie is definitely the 'heart' of the show. Sound familiar? She is very like Gwen but in a nurses uniform...