Torchwood S4 new character spoilers

[Chaos Descending]

See, to me, that seems strange. You can't evaluate an artist on the basis of only one particular, obviously stylized portion of his/her output. If it's well-known that that artist has produced works done in a completely different style that the works one is most familiar with, it seems obvious to me that those other works need to be brought into consideration. Only judging RTD on Who works makes about as much sense to me as only judging Stephen King on his Dark Tower novels, or only judging the Beatles on the musical Across the Universe.

I'm sure that people who are only Dark Towers fans and not really King fans in general would disagree.

 

[Sci]

See, to me, that seems strange. You can't evaluate an artist on the basis of only one particular, obviously stylized portion of his/her output. If it's well-known that that artist has produced works done in a completely different style that the works one is most familiar with, it seems obvious to me that those other works need to be brought into consideration. Only judging RTD on Who works makes about as much sense to me as only judging Stephen King on his Dark Tower novels, or only judging the Beatles on the musical Across the Universe.

I'm sure that people who are only Dark Towers fans and not really King fans in general would disagree.

It's perfectly fine to only be Dark Tower fans, but it's absurd to say that you can have an educated opinion of how good of a writer King is without having read a fair-sized sample of his other works. You can't say you truly know King's range as an author without reading The Stand, or It, or The Shining, or Misery, or The Eyes of the Dragon, or The Green Mile, or Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, or The Body, or...