Torchwood Casting

[shipperx]

Holy cow, Torchwood has cast "All My Children"'s WhoreX5 

(I know that fandom term for her sounds horrid... but you really would have needed to have seen the storyline and the process by which the nickname came about on forums because it got really old listing all of her various and sundry crimes-against-the-audiences-sensibilities that usually degenerated into spitting rage fests about "BABY STEALER!!!")  Man, there were celebrations when this girl left the show.  (Bigger celebrations when they killed off the character who was then dubbed 'the Whorpse.' )
 
[ Note to soap writers:  It's really difficult to garner sympathy for a character who steals her best friend's child, claims it as her own, and takes it to it's own memorial service before oh-so-kindly appointing the grieving biological parent as godmother... to her own freaking stolen child! ] *ahem.*  

Wretched and widely hated character.  Nothing particularly wrong with the actress though.  She was pretty unobjectionable and had her moments -- though with a tendency to over-cry  (and she was really friendly to her femslash fans... of which there were many...until her character stole her lesbian best friend's child).  It wasn't the actress' fault that they wrote her character as a walking twat that stole babies (the use of the plural is accurate as she also posed as a nanny and kidnapped a State Senator's child... and lied to her her husband that their child was dead [even though it wasn't] on Christmas(!) so she could run off with it and live with his brother.  And later faked her own death to kidnap her child from the custodial father.  You see how baby stealing got to be a theme with her...) 

[Good grief rewatching that, the rationalization, the blameshifting, and the projecting onto J.R. reminds me again of why that character was so freaking hated]