Out of curiosity, did you read Role Reversal? That story makes your exact point. If Gwen and Ianto's roles were reversed then Gwen would in fact be EXACTLY what Ianto is, just a shag. Period. End of story. Because that's who Jack is, and when confronted with the situation he admits it to himself.
IF we'd been given that Jack and a TW where everyone screws everyone, and James Moran's Captain's Blog crap had been flushed down the toilet where it belongs, I think we all could have had a much happier TW experience.
Give J/I the the Stopwatch scene, but then have one episode where Jack has to be dragged half-naked out of someone else's flat to go fight an alien. Then we'd know that Jack was still Jack and neither the J/Iers or the J/Gers would have a horse to get high on.
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Out of curiosity, did you read Role Reversal? That story makes your exact point. If Gwen and Ianto's roles were reversed then Gwen would in fact be EXACTLY what Ianto is, just a shag. Period. End of story. Because that's who Jack is, and when confronted with the situation he admits it to himself.
IF we'd been given that Jack and a TW where everyone screws everyone, and James Moran's Captain's Blog crap had been flushed down the toilet where it belongs, I think we all could have had a much happier TW experience.
Give J/I the the Stopwatch scene, but then have one episode where Jack has to be dragged half-naked out of someone else's flat to go fight an alien. Then we'd know that Jack was still Jack and neither the J/Iers or the J/Gers would have a horse to get high on.
Life would be beautiful.