Well, I'm not sure we're going to be able to find any evidence either way because the evidence for either scenario likely looks the same and it comes down to interpretation. That's frustrating because I'd like to know, too. I think unless they tell us outright, we'll likely never know.
I agree that the tears suggest the former. But the tears could also just be sheer relief that he achieved his objective and was going to be able to help Lisa. He was under so much strain at that point that it's probably really hard to figure out what's causing all of it. One of the reasons I could never go along with the 'Ianto should have been fired and retconned' line of thinking was because I really think he was suffering from PTSD. It's amazing to me that he was even functional given what had happened at Canary Wharf and what he was trying to accomplish with Lisa.
My guess is that given that Ianto was laughing in a rather carefree, artless way right before that moment with Jack, I think Ianto felt the attraction too. It seemed like a moment where all of the feelings were entirely shared between them and they were sort of swept up in the moment and then Ianto's brain kicked in.
I've always thought given how angry Ianto got at Jack during CW and how he denied that Jack was his last kiss in CC that Ianto was genuinely attracted to Jack while Lisa was still alive and those feelings of guilt were part of what was making Ianto act so irrationally. If he was genuinely attracted to Jack (and not just stringing him along to blind him to what Ianto was doing) then his guilt over betraying Lisa like that might have made him even more determined to save her when otherwise he might have come to his senses.
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Date: 2008-03-22 10:00 pm (UTC)I agree that the tears suggest the former. But the tears could also just be sheer relief that he achieved his objective and was going to be able to help Lisa. He was under so much strain at that point that it's probably really hard to figure out what's causing all of it. One of the reasons I could never go along with the 'Ianto should have been fired and retconned' line of thinking was because I really think he was suffering from PTSD. It's amazing to me that he was even functional given what had happened at Canary Wharf and what he was trying to accomplish with Lisa.
My guess is that given that Ianto was laughing in a rather carefree, artless way right before that moment with Jack, I think Ianto felt the
attraction too. It seemed like a moment where all of the feelings were entirely shared between them and they were sort of swept up in the moment and then Ianto's brain kicked in.
I've always thought given how angry Ianto got at Jack during CW and how he denied that Jack was his last kiss in CC that Ianto was genuinely attracted to Jack while Lisa was still alive and those feelings of guilt were part of what was making Ianto act so irrationally. If he was genuinely attracted to Jack (and not just stringing him along to blind him to what Ianto was doing) then his guilt over betraying Lisa like that might have made him even more determined to save her when otherwise he might have come to his senses.
All of this backstory is making my brain explode.