I saw the comment in Adrift Captain's Blog fit in fine with what was seen in the show so far up to that stage and in fact by the end of the season there was a great example on screen of Jack needing Ianto's presence. Jack and Ianto know how to keep work and relationship separate most of the time.
In Adrift when Gwen gets to Flat Holm, what is that Jack first says to her? And the delivery of that line? He states that it was "Ianto". There was no anger at all, just a statement of fact that Ianto knew about it and Ianto was the one who told Gwen. What about in Meat when Jack asks if he is showing off? Ianto tells him he does and he stops it. In Sleeper he seeks Ianto's approval for his actions in the interview room with Beth. Jack is continually looking to Ianto for approval. And that final scene I was talking about above. Gwen is hugging Jack after they have watched Tosh's final video. Gwen is stating she doesn't think she can go on / is at the point of possibly breaking down and Jack has lost two team members (one who he brought back from the dead). Jack is returning her hug but his hand is resting on Ianto's shoulder, seeking support from Ianto. Ianto knows this and is standing very still, hands clasped holding his own feelings in as he knows that Jack needs him to be strong so that Jack can maintain that strength in order for Gwen to accept the losses of Tosh and Owen.
The main problem is NOT the writing but the leading man who needs to be rained in or basically just slapped. JB has stated that he attacks each scene as if it is a mini movie and doesn't think about character motivation or history, just takes each scene as it's own little individual movie. That is where we are getting the inconsistency from. The Directors and TPTB need to make him stop making Jack such an inconsistent character. Eve is almost in the same category. If you just look at the words in the scene in Meat where she is threatening to leave TW and chose Rhys over them all. It is a great scene but the way Eve plays it is almost a complete contradiction to the words that she is reciting. The main problem we get with the googly eyes between the two of them is the two actors, not the writers, who seem to have dropped the Gwack pretty much this season as being over. Gwen still idolises Jack to an extent if you just go on the written words in the scripts, but that is about where it really ends.
Also as a visual when you only have 50 mins to fit in all that you want to tell a story, a scene with Jack hugging Ianto would end up on the cutting room floor, it just wouldn't work really. What part of it advances the story? If you had more than the 50 mins then possibly yes it might make it in, but even then still doubtful.
5% of the viewing audience you anticipate? BBC America - Torchwood is the highest rating show on that channel. The BBC use the funds they get from all those people subscribing to BBCA, free and clear from what they have to do with the licencing moneys that they get in the UK. They pay a lot of attention to those fans as that money is very nicely taken into the main BBC coffers and is a good reason why the show has moved from BBC3 to BBC1.
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In Adrift when Gwen gets to Flat Holm, what is that Jack first says to her? And the delivery of that line? He states that it was "Ianto". There was no anger at all, just a statement of fact that Ianto knew about it and Ianto was the one who told Gwen. What about in Meat when Jack asks if he is showing off? Ianto tells him he does and he stops it. In Sleeper he seeks Ianto's approval for his actions in the interview room with Beth. Jack is continually looking to Ianto for approval. And that final scene I was talking about above. Gwen is hugging Jack after they have watched Tosh's final video. Gwen is stating she doesn't think she can go on / is at the point of possibly breaking down and Jack has lost two team members (one who he brought back from the dead). Jack is returning her hug but his hand is resting on Ianto's shoulder, seeking support from Ianto. Ianto knows this and is standing very still, hands clasped holding his own feelings in as he knows that Jack needs him to be strong so that Jack can maintain that strength in order for Gwen to accept the losses of Tosh and Owen.
The main problem is NOT the writing but the leading man who needs to be rained in or basically just slapped. JB has stated that he attacks each scene as if it is a mini movie and doesn't think about character motivation or history, just takes each scene as it's own little individual movie. That is where we are getting the inconsistency from. The Directors and TPTB need to make him stop making Jack such an inconsistent character. Eve is almost in the same category. If you just look at the words in the scene in Meat where she is threatening to leave TW and chose Rhys over them all. It is a great scene but the way Eve plays it is almost a complete contradiction to the words that she is reciting. The main problem we get with the googly eyes between the two of them is the two actors, not the writers, who seem to have dropped the Gwack pretty much this season as being over. Gwen still idolises Jack to an extent if you just go on the written words in the scripts, but that is about where it really ends.
Also as a visual when you only have 50 mins to fit in all that you want to tell a story, a scene with Jack hugging Ianto would end up on the cutting room floor, it just wouldn't work really. What part of it advances the story? If you had more than the 50 mins then possibly yes it might make it in, but even then still doubtful.
5% of the viewing audience you anticipate? BBC America - Torchwood is the highest rating show on that channel. The BBC use the funds they get from all those people subscribing to BBCA, free and clear from what they have to do with the licencing moneys that they get in the UK. They pay a lot of attention to those fans as that money is very nicely taken into the main BBC coffers and is a good reason why the show has moved from BBC3 to BBC1.