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]

'That's the maddening thing about Torchwood -- how much of all the subtle complexities we are seeing is intentional, and how much is just fortuitious coincidence?'
Yeah, sometime I wonder about that too. Sometimes I think I give the production team *too* much credit (they don't have a show bible), and then other times I think we don't give them enough.

[nightspring.livejournal.com]

Exactly. I recently read an article or interview (which I can't find now, grrrrr) where Chris Chibnall mentioned how GDL added depth to Ianto's flashback in Fragments by his crying at the end as Ianto is leaving the warehouse. Now I wasn't quite sure whether Chibnall was praising GDL's performance as he cried, or he was saying it had been GDL's idea to cry. If the latter, that's a really scary thought -- the crying made that flashback!

[tencrush]

It's all over the doctorwhoforum at the moment, it was the latter, is what he seemed to say (I believe it's the current Torchwood magazine). Again, I'll happily PRAISE GDL for this, and it doesn't surprise me that it was his idea, but the simple fact that that sort of thing has to come from the actors is fucking scary. They're VERY LUCKY to have someone like GDL, and to have had someone like Burn who obviously put a bit of thought into what the hell is going on in their character's heads, because the writers certainly don't seem to, and that's shocking.

[love-jackianto.livejournal.com]

Gareth really deserves great praise, not just for saving Jack/Ianto from becoming a big confusing mess, Jack looking wistfully at Gwen *Ianto style eye-roll*, but for also for saving Ianto as a character in general.

I have nothing but praise for Burn as well.

I can only imagine how horrible this show would be if Gareth and Burn had not gotten their roles.

[nightspring.livejournal.com]

And that's exactly why I'll miss Owen -- not just for the character himself, but for losing such a wonderful actor. The scenes between Ianto and Owen had just started to gell together and add a wonderful counterpoint to the Jack-Ianto and Jack-Owen scenes. They could have had a character triangle going in a very good way, like they had with Kirk, Spock and McCoy in Star Trek TOS. :(

[love-jackianto.livejournal.com]

'They could have had a character triangle going in a very good way, like they had with Kirk, Spock and McCoy in Star Trek TOS. :('
That would have been great. Who knows maybe Owen could come back someday; people hardly ever stay dead in sci-fi shows.

[love-jackianto.livejournal.com]

'Now I wasn't quite sure whether Chibnall was praising GDL's performance as he cried, or he was saying it had been GDL's idea to cry. If the latter, that's a really scary thought -- the crying made that flashback!'
Oh yes, take out that crying scene and the whole flashback is completely different.

Here's what was said in the article '...Gareth [David-Lloyd] added a wonderful depth to it, when, unseen by Jack, he starts to cry at the end.' Magazine Article

I always took that to mean that Gareth improvised the crying. It wouldn't surprise me, he seems to really 'get' Ianto as a character even when the writers don't.

[nightspring.livejournal.com]

Oh great! Thanks for the link!

And no, it doesn't surprise me that GDL is so on top of things. I sometimes think he's single-handedly holding Torchwood together, LOL.

[love-jackianto.livejournal.com]

'And no, it doesn't surprise me that GDL is so on top of things. I sometimes think he's single-handedly holding Torchwood together, LOL.'

Yeah, if he ever leaves the show they are in sooo much trouble.