Obviously we all feel pretty strongly about this and it's good to care passionately about your fandom, but it's a fine line between defending your position and ending up on Fandom Wank as a horrible example.
I'm not on any of the Jack/Gwen comms and didn't know the Jack/Gwen scene was coming before the office scene until I saw it, and the second I heard Jack ask Ianto for the date, I thought timing is everything. If I sound like I'm parroting a line, it's one that occurred to me spontaneously.
Starting from that perspective, Jack knows he's losing or has lost Gwen and sense the possibility of Ianto pulling away as well and being willing to do or say anything to stop it including, "while I was away."
Just to make my position clear-I only want Jack/Gwen because I need some acceptible canon alternative to Jack/Ianto. I'm a canon junkie, so I have to accept what is there: Sex. Fine. Canon it is. But the sticking point for me is those in the J/I camp who insist it must be LOVE and seem to have a attack of the bitters where there is the implication that Jack might love or care about someone else, specifically Gwen to a higher degree.
If the thought of Jack loving/longing for Gwen causes you that much pain, you'll need to ask JB to stop acting his heart out whenever he's given the opportunity to play a scene that suggests otherwise.
But really, the smushnames suck. Whether you're using them for a pairing you like or hate. Unless there's real wit or humor in the smushname, there's just not reason and it reflects badly on fandom as a whole.
My favorite is Syck for Syd/Jack on Alias because it says what it is so perfectly.
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Obviously we all feel pretty strongly about this and it's good to care passionately about your fandom, but it's a fine line between defending your position and ending up on Fandom Wank as a horrible example.
I'm not on any of the Jack/Gwen comms and didn't know the Jack/Gwen scene was coming before the office scene until I saw it, and the second I heard Jack ask Ianto for the date, I thought timing is everything. If I sound like I'm parroting a line, it's one that occurred to me spontaneously.
Starting from that perspective, Jack knows he's losing or has lost Gwen and sense the possibility of Ianto pulling away as well and being willing to do or say anything to stop it including, "while I was away."
Just to make my position clear-I only want Jack/Gwen because I need some acceptible canon alternative to Jack/Ianto. I'm a canon junkie, so I have to accept what is there: Sex. Fine. Canon it is. But the sticking point for me is those in the J/I camp who insist it must be LOVE and seem to have a attack of the bitters where there is the implication that Jack might love or care about someone else, specifically Gwen to a higher degree.
If the thought of Jack loving/longing for Gwen causes you that much pain, you'll need to ask JB to stop acting his heart out whenever he's given the opportunity to play a scene that suggests otherwise.
But really, the smushnames suck. Whether you're using them for a pairing you like or hate. Unless there's real wit or humor in the smushname, there's just not reason and it reflects badly on fandom as a whole.
My favorite is Syck for Syd/Jack on Alias because it says what it is so perfectly.