They're just not going to go this direction, though. RTD spent a couple of lines in The Stolen Earth establishing Possessive Ianto.
One can read Jack's eye roll as humouring Ianto's so-called-jealousy, but that's rather incidental. What's more telling is that (in DW, which is family viewing) everyone's familial and romantic relationships were established and that for Jack, currently that's both Gwen and Ianto (kisses on the forehead/head are very similar in coreography) it was important to my mind to show that Jack had people to lose to the Dalek invasion, like Sarah Jane did. It matters little that she would have lost a son and Jack a lover and a friend. It's just that he left his 'family' to go fight with/for the Doctor as Sarah Jane did.
It will probably have as little impact on Torchwood as the year Jack spent being tortured by the Master did.
Now Martha Jones? She's interesting to this discussion. The kiss Freema gave JD/Martha gave Jack at the end of her sojourn in Torchwood was awkward and felt improvised. And damn if it wasn't clunky. Bad Acting? Msybe, but we don't know what RTD was writing when that was filmed. If he was writing Journey's End - it may not be incidental at all. I forsee Tom's engagement being a Cardiff casualty and Jack and Martha growing closer.
At least that's how I read what we're shown on screen. I know that they've said the original team will still be the core group.
Dramatically though, it wouldn't surprise. Nor would Mickey's heroic death.
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Re: Possessive Ianto....
Date: 2008-07-18 12:15 pm (UTC)They're just not going to go this direction, though. RTD spent a couple of lines in The Stolen Earth establishing Possessive Ianto.
One can read Jack's eye roll as humouring Ianto's so-called-jealousy, but that's rather incidental. What's more telling is that (in DW, which is family viewing) everyone's familial and romantic relationships were established and that for Jack, currently that's both Gwen and Ianto (kisses on the forehead/head are very similar in coreography) it was important to my mind to show that Jack had people to lose to the Dalek invasion, like Sarah Jane did. It matters little that she would have lost a son and Jack a lover and a friend. It's just that he left his 'family' to go fight with/for the Doctor as Sarah Jane did.
It will probably have as little impact on Torchwood as the year Jack spent being tortured by the Master did.
Now Martha Jones? She's interesting to this discussion. The kiss Freema gave JD/Martha gave Jack at the end of her sojourn in Torchwood was awkward and felt improvised. And damn if it wasn't clunky. Bad Acting? Msybe, but we don't know what RTD was writing when that was filmed. If he was writing Journey's End - it may not be incidental at all. I forsee Tom's engagement being a Cardiff casualty and Jack and Martha growing closer.
At least that's how I read what we're shown on screen. I know that they've said the original team will still be the core group.
Dramatically though, it wouldn't surprise. Nor would Mickey's heroic death.