CAPTAIN'S BLOG

[tencrush]

For Fragments:

Staff: Everyone came out of the explosion pretty beaten up, but no major damage. We got lucky. And so did John. Because if he’d killed anyone - if he had hurt Ianto - I would have slowly ripped him limb from limb.

Other Staff issues: Although I have to say, Ianto does look good all messed up and dirty.

DAMN YOU, STOP PASTING IT ON!!!!

It's not like you haven't had AMPLE OPPORTUNITY to show us teh wuv. Why didn't you?

Comments

[tencrush]

Agreed 100%, plus you used big words there like cognitive dissonance so, you know, respec'.

Edited because I promptly mistyped one of them, FAIL.

[mellacita.livejournal.com]

The last Captain's Blog is now up. I used to look forward to these, but now they are just a little too much. Especially the way this one ends. A little office drinkie or something would have totally filled obvious janto-shaped hole in the end of 2x13 but instead we get this. Woe.

[tencrush]

Yeah, I don't want much, I just would have liked to have seen some sort of closure and some sort of acknowledgement that Jack and Ianto spend solo time together, certainly maybe for just a minute or so after the events of Exit Wounds (like Gwen and Rhys did for a precious ten second shot, that was enough) This stuff, like I said, I can't think of any other way of putting it, that's why I keep saying the same thing, it feels PASTED ON.

[rowanswhimsy.livejournal.com]

Much as we expected, we only get the scene in the blog:


Exit Wounds:

Other Staff issues: The one glimmer of hope in all this? I still have Ianto and Gwen. Whatever the future throws at us, whatever madness the Rift vomits out next, whatever we have to face - Torchwood will be ready.

Capt. Jack Harkness.

Ianto, I know you’re reading this over my shoulder, pretending to fix that damn shelf. So get over here and take me out somewhere.

I'm really starting to get peeved about all of this. I think they've ruined the blog for me because it just feels like pandering.

[nightspring.livejournal.com]

It's not just the pandering with regards to the Jack/Ianto stuff! The entire tone of the blog is so juvenile it feels like a high school intern wrote it! Which maybe *is* who they have writing that blog!

[rowanswhimsy.livejournal.com]

It seems to me that the tone has definitely changed over the course of the blogging this series. It's almost as if it's overcompensating and that's leading it into bad fanfic territory.

Another possibility is that if it's flat out pandering, they misunderstand the demos of their Jack/Ianto fanbase.

[tencrush]

Yeah, the one they just put up I think at least is slightly more in character and makes me squee just a tiny bit. Though, like you say, Jack comes off as a bit needy and we've NEVER SEEN ANY OF THAT SIDE OF HIM ON SCREEN, so it's a bit weird.

[rowanswhimsy.livejournal.com]

I think the only onscreen evidence we have for 'Ianto taking Jack out somewhere' is the weevil hunting in Fragments, isn't it? Other than that, the relationship has mainly played out through encounters presumably in the Hub (handjobs in Adrift, the hockey stick in the Hub, etc.) So while I think this entry is a tad more understated than what was posted for Fragments, it's still annoying that it's the blog that keeps referencing these 'dates' (using 'date' here as shorthand for 'Jack and Ianto doing things as a couple that don't involve sex in the Hub).

[mellacita.livejournal.com]

Not only can I use big words (occasionally I even use them correctly), I can also point you to my dear friend lady_razzle who recorded the fisting thing.
http://community.livejournal.com/garethdlloyd/8724.html?#cutid1

(I read DWF but I have never posted there and it seemed a weird way to start? Still finding my way around this here fandom!)

[tencrush]

*DIES A HAPPY DEATH*

THANK YOU.