Mind you, there were also a lot of Spike/Buffy 'shippers who truly loved both characters

*waves* Most of us fled for non-crazy parts after we realized that a good proportion of our fellow shippers hated 1/2 of our ship. I've never understood that.

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?

I remember someone telling me that a certain segment of Classic Who fans were terrified of what RTD was going to do to their show. I think I even remember hearing some old interview of someone whose name I don't remember who actually stated that they preferred that Who not be brought back at all if it was Rusty that was doing it.