I'm meh on the lack of 'I love you'. If it had been put in I would have cringed. Till the end I still had hope Ianto would dump Jack :/
Jack was essentially fucking an employee, not really giving anything back emotionally, despite the fact that that employee,...interactions became hugely uncomfortable to watch
This is the main reason I never got fully behind the pairing and one of the reasons I hate the character of Jack (the other reason is JB's 'actoring' :/).
But that said, I do think that there were feelings there on Jack's side, while it wasn't love, I do think that there was some affection for Ianto bc the sex could not have been 'that' good.
Jack was just too broken to give Ianto what he needed and Ianto was too damaged to leave. They both got either too complacent or just neither of them wanted it bad enough.
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Date: 2009-09-11 12:11 pm (UTC)Jack was essentially fucking an employee, not really giving anything back emotionally, despite the fact that that employee,...interactions became hugely uncomfortable to watch
This is the main reason I never got fully behind the pairing and one of the reasons I hate the character of Jack (the other reason is JB's 'actoring' :/).
But that said, I do think that there were feelings there on Jack's side, while it wasn't love, I do think that there was some affection for Ianto bc the sex could not have been 'that' good.
Jack was just too broken to give Ianto what he needed and Ianto was too damaged to leave. They both got either too complacent or just neither of them wanted it bad enough.