'Too bad that this elevation happened only in the interviews and never actually on screen.' Yeah, but like you said pretty much ALL of their relationship happened off-screen.
'(I'm sure one of the reasons why Ianto had to die was to give the NEW viewers the 'Jack's immortality is a curse' message - the old fans already got that ad nauseam)' Not to mention the 'people die young in Torchwood' message that we also got ad nauseam with Owen and Tosh.
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Date: 2009-09-11 06:07 pm (UTC)Yeah, but like you said pretty much ALL of their relationship happened off-screen.
'(I'm sure one of the reasons why Ianto had to die was to give the NEW viewers the 'Jack's immortality is a curse' message - the old fans already got that ad nauseam)'
Not to mention the 'people die young in Torchwood' message that we also got ad nauseam with Owen and Tosh.