Does Russell T Davies have father issues?
Jul. 13th, 2009 09:55 amI'm increasingly coming to the conclusion that Russell T Davies has a problem with fathers. The work he's involved with seems to lack positive father figures and have rather a few negative one's. I'm not sure whether this is just the flip side of Davies really loving strong, positive, working class mothers and not wanting to complicate these mother child relationships with another involved parent. In Queer as Folk I don't remember any of the main characters having good relationships with their fathers. Vince's father is absent. Stuart doesn't get on well with either of his parents. Nathan's mother is far more sympathetic than is father. Stuart is feckless whilst the nice lesbians look after the baby. In Doctor Who all of the assistants come from single mother families and when we do go back in time and learn about Rose's father he's a bit of a sleaze. There are two doctor who episodes, 'The Idiot's Lantern' and 'Fear Her' with very negative fathers and the only really positive sympathetic father figure I can think of was in "The Next Doctor". To be fair to Davies, he didn't write 'The Idiot's Lantern' or 'Fear Her'. Then in series three of Torchwood he rewrote Ianto's back story to imply that his relationship with his father was difficult, possibly even abusive. It just felt like Davies couldn't cope with a queer male character having a good relationship with his father, because there was no point to it.
What do you think?
What do you think?