Yeah, you should have seen TW1, I really don't think so when it comes to the hiring, no way. That place was hardcore.
Having said that, a connection with the Doctor might not be as crazy as it seems. I make stupid jokes about him being the Doctor's son, but I'm not basing that entirely on smoke, I do have my reasons for fanwanking that.
And I STILL have this vague feeling we might eventually end up seeing Ianto in Who.
Huh. But his manwhorespying didn't seem sophisticated enough to get him into TW1. He was barely able to con Jack (who sounds as if he's a much lower standard). So maybe someone helped get him into TW1. For purposes yet unknown.
I've been convinced Ianto is going to end up there at some point and that GDL knows it. He did that interview where he said that he couldn't say about being in DW then followed up with what he needed to become more popular was an appearance on DW. GDL never can keep a secret in interviews. I mean, he blew the whole manwhorespy thing with 'Ianto is bisexual for his own purposes'.
Well, that's what I mean; I don't think he's good enough at deception to have got into TW1 by deception. Which means he must have got into TW1 on his true merits, which automatically means the average student drifter thing must be untrue.
If someone got him the job, and that someone is relevant to the plot somehow and that someone wanted him at TW, you'd think that someone would still have been looking out for him after Canary Wharf, and would have helped him again. So I'm kind of discounting that.
I'm with you that he got into TW1 on his true merits. My fanwank says it had something to do with the Doctor. TW1 did seem to make huge leaps in Doctorology just before Army of Ghosts.
I'm very conflicted though. He could have gotten the job at TW1 because of someone who died at Canary Warf. And then the name...Ianto Jones (a Welsh John Smith).
Basically there are so many equally believable possibilities of who the hell he is and where he came from that it makes my head hurt. I think RTD is sitting somewhere eating pies and laughing at us all.
I do agree that the GDL quotes in that interview were a slip. The interviewer really seemed to be begged off very quickly. It made me a very happy fangirl at the time.
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Date: 2008-03-23 08:36 am (UTC)Having said that, a connection with the Doctor might not be as crazy as it seems. I make stupid jokes about him being the Doctor's son, but I'm not basing that entirely on smoke, I do have my reasons for fanwanking that.
And I STILL have this vague feeling we might eventually end up seeing Ianto in Who.
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Date: 2008-03-23 02:11 pm (UTC)I've been convinced Ianto is going to end up there at some point and that GDL knows it. He did that interview where he said that he couldn't say about being in DW then followed up with what he needed to become more popular was an appearance on DW. GDL never can keep a secret in interviews. I mean, he blew the whole manwhorespy thing with 'Ianto is bisexual for his own purposes'.
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Date: 2008-03-23 02:25 pm (UTC)If someone got him the job, and that someone is relevant to the plot somehow and that someone wanted him at TW, you'd think that someone would still have been looking out for him after Canary Wharf, and would have helped him again. So I'm kind of discounting that.
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Date: 2008-03-25 06:05 am (UTC)I'm very conflicted though. He could have gotten the job at TW1 because of someone who died at Canary Warf. And then the name...Ianto Jones (a Welsh John Smith).
Basically there are so many equally believable possibilities of who the hell he is and where he came from that it makes my head hurt. I think RTD is sitting somewhere eating pies and laughing at us all.
I do agree that the GDL quotes in that interview were a slip. The interviewer really seemed to be begged off very quickly. It made me a very happy fangirl at the time.