No, I know they're not going to go in this direction, I just think it would have been the best direction to take initially. Putting Jack in a relationship makes him a bastard if he ends it (especially this one, given the inherent squick involved in the fact that he's Ianto's boss) but it makes him kind of dull and not the omnisexual hero they wrote him as if he goes all monogamous and romantic. It's a catch 22 situation now, and it's why my only suggestion, to salvage Jack's character and also Ianto's (who's still perceived by many as quite the downtrodden boytoy), from a writing perspective, would be to have Ianto end the relationship for whatever reason.

I think they have in some corners already managed to piss off the queer contingent by the approach they've taken. Like I've said before, I find it quite baffling that this show, which is so hilariously unsubtle about pretty much everything, would choose to shroud the canon gay relationship in so much subtlety, innuendo and subtext. Not the gay sex, mind, but the nature of the gay relationship. It's a weird approach to take.