Yeah, I think the reason I see things this way is primarily because I always liked Ianto more than Jack. Ianto kept me watching the show, and I think when you come from an angle of preferring Ianto to Jack, you really end up disliking Jack for the way he treated him.
For me, I'd have been more emotionally satisfied if the fucked-up angle had been played up more, their tension and discomfort with each other had been allowed to grow, and then Ianto had gone off somewhere to do something brave or heroic or foolish without Jack and been shot in the face, bam, dead. Leaving Jack with nothing and leaving everything unsaid. The clichéd soap-opera deathbed thing did absolutely nothing for me in the way of hammering home mortality and missed opportunities or whatever it was that RTD says he was trying to get across.
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Date: 2009-09-11 12:54 pm (UTC)For me, I'd have been more emotionally satisfied if the fucked-up angle had been played up more, their tension and discomfort with each other had been allowed to grow, and then Ianto had gone off somewhere to do something brave or heroic or foolish without Jack and been shot in the face, bam, dead. Leaving Jack with nothing and leaving everything unsaid. The clichéd soap-opera deathbed thing did absolutely nothing for me in the way of hammering home mortality and missed opportunities or whatever it was that RTD says he was trying to get across.