I'M WORKING ON IT...

[tencrush]

Just rewatching some episodes to get some inspiration re. Ianto and what I am now calling his alpha-in-training-ness. Wow. He is the weirdest character, dudes. He's never on screen, he's always physically reserved and he doesn't say much, but when he does he COMMANDS attention, it's way more blatant than I thought it would be.

But anyway, I'm getting a bit distracted, so I'll just post random things in the meantime.

Watch this scene from Day One again.
"None of you have partners?" says Gwen. And LOOK! Jack was totally going to say something and then he shuts his mouth and changes his mind.



He's so doing the teaboy already at this point in time.

Comments

[love-jackianto.livejournal.com]

Ianto as an addict. I never thought about that, but it makes a lot sense.

[antelope-writes.livejournal.com]

In S1, Ianto is an addict and Jack is the terminally ill patient desperate that one more doctor will give him the cure. Ianto starts out headed towards rock bottom and winds up in rehab, with a brief bit of falling off the wagon in EOD.

In S2, Ianto is in recovery (reasonably successfully) and Jack has learned that his illness is not terminal but manageable and he is dealing with it as best he can. Think diabetes instead of cancer. By extension, Zombie!Owen in DMW and DITD is a metaphor about learning to cope with sudden disability.