I like your Fragments take, I've also never subscribed to the suit explanation, I always took that meeting as Ianto just being more himself than anything else, and while I think the suit is possibly part of some elaborate in-joke between them, as is the "Sir" and the whole butler thing, I don't think Jack's attraction had anything to do with the suit, but was based entirely on the way they were with each other. I see the first meeting in Fragments as Ianto trying it on on a superficial sexual level and getting nowhere, the second as Ianto just basically pleading with Jack and taking up a slightly more submissive position than would normally be his nature to do (not very successfully I might add, given his physical in-your-face-ness) and not really getting anywhere either, and in the third, the suit being besides the point, Ianto just more or less being his competent, slightly take-charge, I-will-challenge-you self, which Jack likes and culminates in them laughing together and realsing there's an attraction there, and it's not superficial.
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Date: 2008-05-14 06:34 am (UTC)I like your Fragments take, I've also never subscribed to the suit explanation, I always took that meeting as Ianto just being more himself than anything else, and while I think the suit is possibly part of some elaborate in-joke between them, as is the "Sir" and the whole butler thing, I don't think Jack's attraction had anything to do with the suit, but was based entirely on the way they were with each other. I see the first meeting in Fragments as Ianto trying it on on a superficial sexual level and getting nowhere, the second as Ianto just basically pleading with Jack and taking up a slightly more submissive position than would normally be his nature to do (not very successfully I might add, given his physical in-your-face-ness) and not really getting anywhere either, and in the third, the suit being besides the point, Ianto just more or less being his competent, slightly take-charge, I-will-challenge-you self, which Jack likes and culminates in them laughing together and realsing there's an attraction there, and it's not superficial.
Sorry, I veered off-topic then. :)