Toddled over here from Torchwood Three... hope you don't mind Tencrush.
Only a small section of the fandom thinks Ianto is going to die, and have been thinking so since Season One. Ignore them. He is a brilliant character who JB admits keeps Jack "human" and Ianto is slowly becoming a key member of the team, and the most popular character after Jack. It's that element that I think threatens people for some reason.
I'm sorry but none of the separate statements in that paragraph have any logical connection. Firstly, Ianto has nearly been killed off twice already, so people who have been expecting him to die haven't been entirely wrong. Secondly, he would be far, far, far from the first popular, brilliant, key character to be killed in any show. (In many people's minds not even the first one killed in Torchwood.) And thirdly (without even addressing the miss-placed snark of the "threatened" comment) far more people who love Ianto are afraid he will be killed off than those who don't.
I have several reasons I'm scared silly that Ianto (who for the record is my favourite character and while I find the idea of being threatened by him disconcertingly erotic, I'm guessing it's for none of the motives you were inferring) that will not be around for series 4 and that's even without the persistent spoiler rumours around the place...
One of which is that by making his relationship with Jack so overt he has been placed fairly and squarely in the most dangerous seat in TV Land, ie the Lead's Love Interest. How many of them survive the story arc?
More importantly, the very fact that Gareth himself originally said that he was intending to go to LA for pilot season is a great big screaming alarm bell to me that here is an actor who considers himself free and uncommitted and looking for a long term gig. You don't play that game for the hell of it, you go knowing that if you have the luck to be picked out of the flood of actors from all of the English speaking world who converge on Hollywood at that time of year that you are in a position to sign on for the long run. You don't go thinking you probably have to be back in the UK by the autumn to start filming for several months solid. Casting for less than regular roles is done at another time entirely.
So yeah, I'm worried and I think I have every reason to be.
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Only a small section of the fandom thinks Ianto is going to die, and have been thinking so since Season One. Ignore them. He is a brilliant character who JB admits keeps Jack "human" and Ianto is slowly becoming a key member of the team, and the most popular character after Jack. It's that element that I think threatens people for some reason.
I'm sorry but none of the separate statements in that paragraph have any logical connection. Firstly, Ianto has nearly been killed off twice already, so people who have been expecting him to die haven't been entirely wrong. Secondly, he would be far, far, far from the first popular, brilliant, key character to be killed in any show. (In many people's minds not even the first one killed in Torchwood.) And thirdly (without even addressing the miss-placed snark of the "threatened" comment) far more people who love Ianto are afraid he will be killed off than those who don't.
I have several reasons I'm scared silly that Ianto (who for the record is my favourite character and while I find the idea of being threatened by him disconcertingly erotic, I'm guessing it's for none of the motives you were inferring) that will not be around for series 4 and that's even without the persistent spoiler rumours around the place...
One of which is that by making his relationship with Jack so overt he has been placed fairly and squarely in the most dangerous seat in TV Land, ie the Lead's Love Interest. How many of them survive the story arc?
More importantly, the very fact that Gareth himself originally said that he was intending to go to LA for pilot season is a great big screaming alarm bell to me that here is an actor who considers himself free and uncommitted and looking for a long term gig. You don't play that game for the hell of it, you go knowing that if you have the luck to be picked out of the flood of actors from all of the English speaking world who converge on Hollywood at that time of year that you are in a position to sign on for the long run. You don't go thinking you probably have to be back in the UK by the autumn to start filming for several months solid. Casting for less than regular roles is done at another time entirely.
So yeah, I'm worried and I think I have every reason to be.