Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-32390199-20131006194450/@comment-22525977-20131013061843

There's no call to be rude.

I adhere very strongly to death of the author. What I get from the text is what I get from the text, and the writers' opinions about what I should be getting from the text does not matter to me. Ergo, I don't accept interviews as canon except under very specific circumstances (for example, in the Wonderland interview, I had already been reading and writing the Hatter as having mercury poisoning because she displayed symptoms of it in the show itself; that the actor confirmed that that was the intent added nothing new to my interpretation of the character—the confirmation was nice, but not necessary).

This is why I refer to Graham/the huntsman as a "rape victim" and not a "boy toy."