So true about actors/directors adding things writers didn't intend or expect, and I don't think anyone could have expected Gareth -- he seems like one of the seven wonders of the world or something. :D
And to bring this back to tencrush's suggestion that Jack in Day One had been about to mention himself and Ianto when Gwen asked if any of them had partners, do we know when Jack/Ianto was conceived as a possibility in the mind of the production team? Could John Barrowman have had that possibility in mind when he acted that scene, or was he maybe thinking of Jack as about to tell a joke (probably a crude one) and changing his mind? Not that the presence or absence of "authorial" intent should prevent us from interpreting that scene as Jack already doing Ianto, of course, but I'm just wondering...
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And to bring this back to tencrush's suggestion that Jack in Day One had been about to mention himself and Ianto when Gwen asked if any of them had partners, do we know when Jack/Ianto was conceived as a possibility in the mind of the production team? Could John Barrowman have had that possibility in mind when he acted that scene, or was he maybe thinking of Jack as about to tell a joke (probably a crude one) and changing his mind? Not that the presence or absence of "authorial" intent should prevent us from interpreting that scene as Jack already doing Ianto, of course, but I'm just wondering...