When I said Ianto needs to "do the right thing" I think it's that Ianto has a passion to prove himself to himself - part of his loyalty to Lisa, to Jack, to Torchwood. When he believes in something, he puts his entire effort into it. Here, Adam had him doing something he would never do, and truly believing he had done it - that overturned his sense of self, because he could not be 'doing the right thing' if he was also a psycho-killer. This set up a contradiction within himself, but, Ianto being Ianto, he turned to Jack to confess and get help.
Owen's problem is that he turned inward, and has a lot of cynicism and anger - he can't believe that good things will happen to him and he is particularly afraid to love, having lost Katie to the alien and having lost Diane to the Rift. So he cuts himself off from others, and willfully becomes oblivious to Tosh's interest in him. But in Adam's scenario, he did not have these fears and repressions - perhaps he had forgotten both Katie and Diane? - and so showed an entirely different side of his personality. Not what he actually had been before the trauma of losing his fiancee, that we saw in "Fragments", but as he might have been had he never met her.
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Date: 2008-05-21 07:47 pm (UTC)Owen's problem is that he turned inward, and has a lot of cynicism and anger - he can't believe that good things will happen to him and he is particularly afraid to love, having lost Katie to the alien and having lost Diane to the Rift. So he cuts himself off from others, and willfully becomes oblivious to Tosh's interest in him. But in Adam's scenario, he did not have these fears and repressions - perhaps he had forgotten both Katie and Diane? - and so showed an entirely different side of his personality. Not what he actually had been before the trauma of losing his fiancee, that we saw in "Fragments", but as he might have been had he never met her.