Well, James Moran has admitted to lurking in OG, and following fan-blogs, also a lot of questions fans had about plot holes (what was Jack doing between leaving in LotTL and appearing in KKBB?) so a little bit of non-cynical pandering is obviously going on. Along with the ‘fell behind on the archive notes as a response to people wondering why the blog hadn’t been updated’. I tend to think the writers were very excited about Jack/Gwen at the start, and really wanted to build towards it and Ianto was just to remind the viewers that Jack’s attracted to men as well. Problem was there was wonky romantic chemistry between Eve and John, and Kai and Gareth proved to be better actors and they wanted to keep them on. So since the Captain’s Blogs were for BBCA, they decided to use those to supplement the Jack/Ianto relationship, and build it up in preparation for series 2 and later, but they still wanted to finish up the Jack/Gwen story-line they had originally invested themselves in. So hence the weird love polygon.
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Date: 2008-07-17 06:57 pm (UTC)I tend to think the writers were very excited about Jack/Gwen at the start, and really wanted to build towards it and Ianto was just to remind the viewers that Jack’s attracted to men as well. Problem was there was wonky romantic chemistry between Eve and John, and Kai and Gareth proved to be better actors and they wanted to keep them on.
So since the Captain’s Blogs were for BBCA, they decided to use those to supplement the Jack/Ianto relationship, and build it up in preparation for series 2 and later, but they still wanted to finish up the Jack/Gwen story-line they had originally invested themselves in. So hence the weird love polygon.