I haven't seen Something Borrowed yet, so I'll keep my fingers tightly crossed that I don't see what you saw in it. If my fingers lose all circulation and fall off due to this, please know I hold you responsible. Just kidding.
I don't like the way the relationship's going, but at the same time, it strikes a very honest chord. Perhaps I'm young and haven't seen as much of the world as a lot of other LJ users, but I find a lot of aspects of Torchwood very honest. It's easy to identify with the character of Tosh, for instance. while Im not her greatest fan, her desperation in feeling she needs a Significant Other and probably not realizing quite what she's doing throwing herself at pretty much anyone that shows her a small bit of affection is very, very possible and likely. I think something similar is happening with the Janto-relationship. While it's embarassing to watch for anyone who's slightly detached and looking in on it, I think many people can identify with Ianto, so desperate to cling on to Jack that he barely realizes how far down his list of priorities he's putting himself. He'll probably snap out of it one day, and then be really embarassed. I would very much like to see a happy, healthy, gay relationship portrayed somewhere in popular culture though (I guess Willow/Tara is the closest it gets), as I've never actually seen it work in real life (my uncle is gay-married/civil partnership'd, and his spouse is a manipulative, sanctimonious bastard, and one of my best friends is a lesbian who [it seems to me, like Ianto,] has lost her backbone in order to keep her girlfriend. Perhaps that's getting too personal, but I hope you see my point).
I do think Jack should lose his Omni-licensce. I get annoyed at the TV-guides whenever they call him bi, but he's really seeming to be heading that way. After all, so far as I can currently remember (and I'm having a bad-memory day, please feel free to prove me wrong) we've seen him flirt with the Trinny and Susanna-droids and there was obviously somehting between him and the Ninth Doctor, but that was all hundreds of years ago (for him), and recently he seems to have been going only for men and women, though (apart from possibly Gwen, although it's written into the script I really don't see the chemistry there) the women all seem to have been fairly long ago.
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Date: 2008-03-07 09:08 pm (UTC)I don't like the way the relationship's going, but at the same time, it strikes a very honest chord. Perhaps I'm young and haven't seen as much of the world as a lot of other LJ users, but I find a lot of aspects of Torchwood very honest. It's easy to identify with the character of Tosh, for instance. while Im not her greatest fan, her desperation in feeling she needs a Significant Other and probably not realizing quite what she's doing throwing herself at pretty much anyone that shows her a small bit of affection is very, very possible and likely. I think something similar is happening with the Janto-relationship. While it's embarassing to watch for anyone who's slightly detached and looking in on it, I think many people can identify with Ianto, so desperate to cling on to Jack that he barely realizes how far down his list of priorities he's putting himself. He'll probably snap out of it one day, and then be really embarassed.
I would very much like to see a happy, healthy, gay relationship portrayed somewhere in popular culture though (I guess Willow/Tara is the closest it gets), as I've never actually seen it work in real life (my uncle is gay-married/civil partnership'd, and his spouse is a manipulative, sanctimonious bastard, and one of my best friends is a lesbian who [it seems to me, like Ianto,] has lost her backbone in order to keep her girlfriend. Perhaps that's getting too personal, but I hope you see my point).
I do think Jack should lose his Omni-licensce. I get annoyed at the TV-guides whenever they call him bi, but he's really seeming to be heading that way. After all, so far as I can currently remember (and I'm having a bad-memory day, please feel free to prove me wrong) we've seen him flirt with the Trinny and Susanna-droids and there was obviously somehting between him and the Ninth Doctor, but that was all hundreds of years ago (for him), and recently he seems to have been going only for men and women, though (apart from possibly Gwen, although it's written into the script I really don't see the chemistry there) the women all seem to have been fairly long ago.