If I had to guess at tomorrow's play...

[tencrush]

I'd say it probably involves some revelation about Jack knowing that Ianto's going to die. This may or may not take the form of some random fandom dig, again. That's just my speculation.

I haven't heard the last one yet, to be fair, I'm waiting for a spare 45 mins. Which will shortly become a spare hour and a half and then two fifteen. Damn children.

BTW, If you've heard stuff by the time you read this, feel free (in other words PLEASE) to spoil me in the comments, I'd kind of like to know the reeling Ianto revelations before I listen, I'm not in the mood for new IantoCanon if it's going to be Debenhams-style ShitCanon and I will happily just ignore it.

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[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

Ack, thanks for the reminder, I'm avoiding work so it's perfect audio time

[jo02]

Radio Play #2 was painfully embarrassing right up until the cracktastic part where Gwen accidentally broke both hands off a dead guy - been a loooooong time since Gwen made me lol.

Oh, and, shades of the Dead Line. The score NOW reads ...
Ianto says ILU = 2
Jack says ILU = still 0

I don't think this is the play where we get the awesome Ianto revelations, which BTW I am NOT looking forward to :(
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[wounded-melody.livejournal.com]

Basically, Ianto had another girlfriend, or maybe she had a crush on him, or whatever, from Torchwood 1.
Ianto tells her he loves Jack. Says Jack will one day leave him.
FORESHADOWING ANVIL OF DOOM about Ianto's eventual dying in CoE and Jack becoming mortal/dying in MD. (at least that's how I saw it)

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[jo02]

I think you saw it pretty right there.

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[radiant-pip.livejournal.com]

I liked this one better than yesterday's play. But then, this had more Ianto in it! And a slightly better resolution.

Nothing major revealed about Ianto (except that he had an old flame before Lisa that he maybe dumped specifically for Lisa). That little nugget is being saved for tomorrow...yeah, not looking forward to that either. I may need to take a sick day to recover from all of the "reeling" I'm apparently going to be doing. ;)

OK, the rest of this is basically spoilers...

Yes, the last part was a perfect setup for some major fresh Jack angst/dilemmas due to new-found mortality in MD.

They (through Jack) also established again that there is NOTHING out there for you after you die (but by then, Jack was trying to piss off the baddie).

Apparently, everyone dies in Torchwood 1, but everyone lives in Torchwood 3! ?!? OK, Gwen, like T3's track record is SO MUCH BETTER by comparison.

We finally get the perfect opportunity for Jack to show a little jealousy, and all he does is feel up Ianto. We also get another 'does Jack care about Gwen more?' moment, so they're keeping that alive. (Guess that's also a setup for MD since Jack and Gwen are supposed to have a talk.)

And I'd like to know who Jack thinks is just going to take care of aliens once they cross into England?? Which makes no sense since he later says Torchwood has to go far away to explore this new case.

Oh, and we got another "sir" mention.

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[coldwater1010.livejournal.com]

Apparently, everyone dies in Torchwood 1, but everyone lives in Torchwood 3! ?!? OK, Gwen

Maybe she's adopted RTD's point about who 'everyone' consists off.

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[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

Is "everyone" a weird category like how "the best" consists of "Pretty girls, their boyfriends, random aristocracy I want to shag, and occasionally someone's mother"?

[fide-et-spe.livejournal.com]

Ianto in this one had the most annoying American ex girlfriend ever. Who had a hissy fit at one point and Gwen actually said that she didn't really need to worry because whilst everyone died at Torchwood one, this is Torchwood three. Which beggars belief given they've already lost Suzie, Owen and Tosh in Gwen's short time there.

Really lovely little bit when Ianto talks about loving Jack but he'll never be his because Jack has no choice but to leave everyone, he has to. Which sounds really like your theory for tomorrows is right, and in fact your theories are right anyhow!!

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

And the Doctorisation of Jack continues apace!

[fide-et-spe.livejournal.com]

Oh of course I hadn't thought of that!

There was a bit of dialogue that made me laugh, it was basically Jack saying, "listen everyone I'm going to become mortal, then die. OK?"

[tigercheetah.livejournal.com]

There's going to be a character called 'Mr Jones' in the final play and considering the nature of the story - ghosts? - I wonder of the voice of Ianto's father turns up.

I really really don't want it to be another Jack-related issue that Ianto's got to think about - not unless Jack actually responds to Ianto's worries this time, in a distant Jack-like manner of course.

[tencrush]

I'd rather it wasn't anything to do with Jack myself, but if there's a daddy thing involved I am staying well away. Russell's got an awful history giving people daddy issues and Ianto's post-death pasted-on daddy issues really rubbed me up the wrong way in CoE, I'd rather not hear any more of them. Especially in light of the hero-worshippy way RTD wrote the Jack-Ianto dynamic in CoE, which gives the whole thing a squickiness it didn't before.

[tigercheetah.livejournal.com]

I just want something original, not 'I'm going to die young and Jack's going to forget about me' if at all possible.

Ianto left so many questions behind -

a)what happened to his mother?
b) why did he know about that hospital in From Out of the Rain?
c) why did Evon 'little miss empire' Hartman hire someone who was only "an able student but not exceptional"??

If RTD ever decides to bring Ianto back, he's got a good excuse for doing it - just who WAS Ianto Jones?

And yeah! for Ianto picscam.

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I'm still waiting for any mention of a mother for Ianto. I'm beginning to believe it was an immaculate conception by the father (Torchwood-related, of course) and that's what we'll find out tomorrow! Daddy Dearest resented his baby boy for ruining his figure; he couldn't fit into any of those impeccably tailored suits he had in his closet after Ianto was born...he also got arthritis in his hands soon after so he couldn't make any more, which is why he had to work in Debenham's instead. Major daddy issues, indeed

[radiant-pip.livejournal.com]

There aren't any Ianto bashing type revelations in this last play, but it does have the capacity to leave one reeling. Don't want to reveal too much because it would ruin the play (but I did see the twist coming.)

[tencrush]

Yeah, I've not listened to it, but I've been spoiled and I'm in two minds about listening to it now. Hmmm.