The daft thing is that I don't have any fannish investment whatsoever in Jack/Ianto. I don't have a character- or ship-based agenda: if they wrote Jack/Gwen or Jack/furniture or Jack/new person every week instead I'd be more than happy - if they did it with any hint of consistency or that they'd communicated a plan for the season amongst themselves. But having gone down the Jack/Ianto road, they are making a spectacular pig's ear of it.
It's weird: usually I like ambiguous uncomfortable half-spoken relationships that can be interpreted by the audience in different ways. But there's something about onscreen J/I that seems to be doing that by accident. This is Torchwood, the most literal show in history, where alien sex gas IS alien sex gas. It spells everything else out. It fudges them. It's odd.
Is it that it's Ianto, Massively Underwritten Character (apart from his dead robot girlfriend which makes his backstory hella confusing esp in the light of Fragments) and Jack, Massively Overwritten Character (who has been and done everything to the point where he's indistinguishable from anyone else), and there just isn't any way of making that work without it being OOC half the time anyway? I'm not sure how they can fix that, really.
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Date: 2008-07-17 08:54 pm (UTC)It's weird: usually I like ambiguous uncomfortable half-spoken relationships that can be interpreted by the audience in different ways. But there's something about onscreen J/I that seems to be doing that by accident. This is Torchwood, the most literal show in history, where alien sex gas IS alien sex gas. It spells everything else out. It fudges them. It's odd.
Is it that it's Ianto, Massively Underwritten Character (apart from his dead robot girlfriend which makes his backstory hella confusing esp in the light of Fragments) and Jack, Massively Overwritten Character (who has been and done everything to the point where he's indistinguishable from anyone else), and there just isn't any way of making that work without it being OOC half the time anyway? I'm not sure how they can fix that, really.