I'm pretty sure they are trying to mirror Jack's life with his to some point. So I would guess he had, or thought he had, a normal childhood to some point. Then it all fell apart. It's what happened from then that will be interesting, probably. And Jack has those two missing years yet to be resolved on DW. I wonder if they will establish that Ianto has some sort of mystery to his life that even he can't explain. That might be where a time lord/ sleeper type thing comes in. Seems less sleeper than time lord (thank God).
Also, if his dad really was a "master tailor" then he wouldn't have been too working class. Really good tailors make a decent living. He'd have been solidly middle class. And given who wrote Twilight Streets and some of the stuff in it (Zombie!Owen and that locket Alex was holding were in the book), I think it's pretty safe to take that information as canon for now. So yeah, he had a mother at 14.
What really set off the bells for me was the use of the word "drifter." They didn't have to use it. It was thrown in by Jack. In TV-ease that's usually a word that signifies something about a person's background. The big question is what.
And none of this changes the fact that he never could have passed the security clearance/ background check that would have gotten him employed at Yvonne Hartman's Torchwood London. Either the producers just used that character description by accident (not likely since it was written by Chibnall) or Ianto conned his way into Torchwood from day one.
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Date: 2008-03-22 06:45 pm (UTC)Also, if his dad really was a "master tailor" then he wouldn't have been too working class. Really good tailors make a decent living. He'd have been solidly middle class. And given who wrote Twilight Streets and some of the stuff in it (Zombie!Owen and that locket Alex was holding were in the book), I think it's pretty safe to take that information as canon for now. So yeah, he had a mother at 14.
What really set off the bells for me was the use of the word "drifter." They didn't have to use it. It was thrown in by Jack. In TV-ease that's usually a word that signifies something about a person's background. The big question is what.
And none of this changes the fact that he never could have passed the security clearance/ background check that would have gotten him employed at Yvonne Hartman's Torchwood London. Either the producers just used that character description by accident (not likely since it was written by Chibnall) or Ianto conned his way into Torchwood from day one.
MANWHORESPY!