All of your analyses make perfect sense, and I think that your idea of the salvation especially is really intriguing. It almost kind of makes me bitter that they didn't spend a little more time following all of this up on the show, because they give us a whopper of a twist like that-- give Ianto a big, dark secret that totally reverses what we thought of him before-- and yet we get only a couple passing references to it after "Cyberwoman," despite the plethora of themes that could be explored in the follow-up. But I suppose they wanted to make the revelation of Jack and Ianto's sexual relationship in TKKS more surprising.
Which makes me wonder, why do you think that they restarted their relationship after Cyberwoman, especially in such a casual fashion? Jack seemed to have almost no misgivings or suspicions about Ianto during the stopwatch scene, and yet you'd think it would be a bit harder for him to trust Ianto now, which implies they've had some kind of trust building going on, which of course we haven't seen any of.
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Date: 2008-07-29 03:37 pm (UTC)All of your analyses make perfect sense, and I think that your idea of the salvation especially is really intriguing. It almost kind of makes me bitter that they didn't spend a little more time following all of this up on the show, because they give us a whopper of a twist like that-- give Ianto a big, dark secret that totally reverses what we thought of him before-- and yet we get only a couple passing references to it after "Cyberwoman," despite the plethora of themes that could be explored in the follow-up. But I suppose they wanted to make the revelation of Jack and Ianto's sexual relationship in TKKS more surprising.
Which makes me wonder, why do you think that they restarted their relationship after Cyberwoman, especially in such a casual fashion? Jack seemed to have almost no misgivings or suspicions about Ianto during the stopwatch scene, and yet you'd think it would be a bit harder for him to trust Ianto now, which implies they've had some kind of trust building going on, which of course we haven't seen any of.