Reflections on Day Four...

[tencrush]

I knew Ianto was going to die. I said it so often, I TOLD EVERYONE so often because I knew it was going to happen and I wanted to save myself, and everyone else, the heartache. It was inevitable that he would die, and in the end he got a pretty good death, he wasn't alone, he got his answer, in a way, though I'm still pissed Jack couldn't just say the fucking words already, and I'm pissed at Jack for a lot of things because I've always thought Ianto deserved... more, somehow. But then I've always LOVED Ianto. I've said that many times, I've never been this fond of and invested in a fictional character IN MY LIFE, and I'm sure I'll spend the next few weeks and months attempting to figure out WHY THAT IS, and why I'm a grown woman who has has two hours' sleep and is still crying now. Because that's just fucking weird.

My biggest problem, and the thing I think I find the most awful is the thing I've always found awful from the start and that's not that Jack couldn't say the words, or that Jack couldn't be fucked to just tell Rhys to shove his beans up his arse, it's the fact that Jack KNEW he didn't want to do this again, and he KNEW he wanted to keep people at a distance, and yet he allowed Ianto into his bed and sat back and WATCHED him fall in love, and I think maybe if Jack hadn't been Ianto's boss, that would have bothered me less, but Jack WAS Ianto's boss and it DOES bother me. So... yeah. I still have that same old problem with that.

As far as the story goes, there's only one thing that really bothers me about all this and that is that I REALLY DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THE PLAN WAS. Everyone seemed so adamant about letting Jack go in there, I don't understand what Jack was going to do apart from tell it to go fuck itself. Which is nice for Jack, because that gives him closure for 1965, but really, considering what happened in that room, that would appear to have been it. Please let Jack Harkness talk to it so he can get closure and piss it off. And get his trusty sidekick killed. It just... it's MORE than just being pointless, it seems almost selfish and from a writing point of view... contrived, as in this-is-the-scene-where-Jack-gets-closure-and-Ianto-dies-and-that's-why-this-scene-happens. I just don't really get it.

I've not been this upset in a long time, and I guess somebody somewhere deserves kudos for affecting me this much. At the moment I just don't really know who that is. And right now, I'm still just feeling like I want to kill that somebody. With that big fake-out gun.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Don't forget you'll probably get Jack in the last Doctor Who episodes with 10. Probably cheesely going heeeello to anything that moves and fawning over the Doctor who'll treat him like crap again. :(

[tencrush]

I wish I could laugh that off, but yeah, that is indeed what will happen.

[jo02]

I can't shake the idea that Day 5 will go something like this if Ianto doesn't get resurrected - (1) the planet will be saved at the last minute but I don't really care how, (2) Gwen will decide that, with Ianto dead and her new baby to protect, she will leave Torchwood 3 (with or without recton, don't know, don't care) and (3) Jack stands alone at the end, opening up season 4 to be the 'Jack finds a new team, or a new team finds Jack' story.
I can't see Gwen staying, with a new baby, and I can't see even Rusty being brave enough to kill it off in the final episode.

[tencrush]

Ah God, no, Russell's way more manipulative than all that. There'll be a lovely twist which will make Ianto's death even more pointless in storytelling terms. I won't spoil you, but seriously, fuck Russell HARD.