I think they have always trod that fine line with Jack and how he relates to Ianto: Look at the kiss in 'Cyberwoman', for example, which bothers me to this day. Because if thats NOT any form of magical glowy Jack CPR then his is essentially just macking on an unconscious junior employee. That sticks out to me as an anomaly though - i've never thought of Jack as someone to abuse his position.
I think i'm clearly less fond of Jack than you are because i'd never consider him very heroic - He's fairly self-centred and hedonistic. However, I don't believe that Jack's ego would allow him to use his position as boss to get what he wants - Jack considers himself attractive and charming enough to get what he wants, pulling the boss card would be cheating.
I do think that the writing team may have been aware that they needed to level the playing field so to speak with Jack and Ianto and i'm firmly of the belief that that was the intention behind 'Fragments' - because instead of being innocent, vulnerable secretary Ianto became a fairly devious young man who was able to con Jack Harkness. He became pretty formidable in his own right - nobody's toy, nobody's fool.
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I think i'm clearly less fond of Jack than you are because i'd never consider him very heroic - He's fairly self-centred and hedonistic. However, I don't believe that Jack's ego would allow him to use his position as boss to get what he wants - Jack considers himself attractive and charming enough to get what he wants, pulling the boss card would be cheating.
I do think that the writing team may have been aware that they needed to level the playing field so to speak with Jack and Ianto and i'm firmly of the belief that that was the intention behind 'Fragments' - because instead of being innocent, vulnerable secretary Ianto became a fairly devious young man who was able to con Jack Harkness. He became pretty formidable in his own right - nobody's toy, nobody's fool.