Hopefully this doesn't come across as my justifying the behaviour towards James Moran because that's NOT what I'm trying to say. But I'm really curious as to why everyone is repeating as fact that James Moran and his family have received death threats over Torchwood. In his comment on the fans he actually says
Telling me I hate the fans, that I'm laughing at them, that I used them, that I'm slapping people in the face, that I've "killed" the show, that I'm a homophobe, that I want to turn the fanbase away and court new, "cooler" viewers, even that I'm hurting depressed people with dark storylines. Asking me to pass on vitriolic, hateful messages to people I love and respect.
I take it from that that it was mostly angry and hysterical people swearing at him, and most insulting to him was the fans expecting him to share their hate with RTD when he works with the man (which classy), but I think it's all getting a bit overblown just so people can say that batshit shippers now want the writers dead. I mean where does anyone get death threats from that?
Someone in a TW community actually openly boasted of telling James Moran that RTD is a cunt. But when I read that comment? It doesn't even surprise me, and it didn't surprise me that said person would consider that fandom would find that a perfectly acceptable comment to share. DW fandom and TW fandom are always spewing hatred for RTD. Just check the fandom wank entries for things like Rose's return, and people say absolutely vile things about RTD. It's not just his work that's attacked, he is attacked as a person too, and there's most of fandom cheering them on. And people wonder why there's now this mentality of attacking the writers childishly when things don't go your way
RTD has been fandoms scapegoat for a loooong time now, and I only hope that he doesn't get insulted at comic con. Although apparently I'm in the minority with that :/