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[remindmeofthe]

Spoiler-free question for Torchwood: What is up with the names RTD thinks Americans in their thirties and forties have? Rex? Vera? Esther? My GRANDMOTHER is named Esther. Does RTD think we are still in the 1950s?

(Yes, I'm here, I aten't dead, etc etc, I think we have all accepted by now that I just suck at updating LJ. I wish I didn't, I kind of miss not having entries on the front page of my journal that are freaking eight months old.)

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[bethan-b-bad.livejournal.com]

Rose is not too unusual - I went to school with two Roses, and one of my best friends is named Amy-Rose - and Donna is about accurate for someone in Catherine Tate's age group, maybe a little too nineties if anything. But no-one younger than seventy is called Gwen, and there aren't too many Newport boys called Ianto either.

[remindmeofthe.livejournal.com]

It's almost opposite here - I wouldn't be surprised to run into a Gwen our age or older (it'd be unusual, but not weird), but a Donna under forty would be a little odd. My sixty-plus roommate is named Donna.

And it goes without saying that there are no Iantos here. I am embarrassed to admit that when I first heard chatter about the show, I thought Ianto must be an alien teammate.