I never got how one could viciously hate Veronica and ship Logan/Veronica at the same time.

Sounds like what a part of BTVS fandom did with with Spike and Buffy. I never got that either. But I think the rationale as presented on message boards was "he wants her, so he should have her, but I totally hate her if she's not with him". Really really scary (and disturbing). Mind you, there were also a lot of Spike/Buffy 'shippers who truly loved both characters (I have someon my flist - as for myself, I'm ship-neutral when it comes to Buffy - well, except for a slight penchant for Buffy/Faith...), but the Buffy the character haters were really vocal. Someone told me that a lot of Buffy-hating Spike/Buffy 'shippers wandered of to VM fandom to ship Veronica/Logan, so we might be talking about the same people!

Isn't that mandatory by now? Not that he hasn't given some rather unfortunate interviews lately, but I don't remember a point where the Rusty hate wasn't alive and well.

Err, when New Who started?

Wasn't that also a dig at the TV movie? I remember the brother thing being almost canon somewhere, but then getting cut.

I think londonkds mentioned it was in an earlier version of the script for the tv movie, yes, but I might be wrong. In any case, since RTD seems to take the general fannish approach of Paul McGann yay, everything else about the tv movie, nay, the dig would fit...