I told you it won't be pleasant. I don't really understand why almost every series would need their cannibal episode, but, well, apparently there are evergreens I'll never truly get.
I really liked both Ianto and Jack in this story. Tosh, too. They're awesome and I just adored Ianto's play here.
Yeah, me, too. I loved Tosh's little snide remark about Gwen getting her feet under the table quickly enough. *g* Ianto was really, really traumatized, which isn't particularly surprising. I mean, we're what? Two weeks after the Cyberwoman episode? And he gets beaten up and almost eaten? And nobody really cared in the end what happened to him, because Ohmg, Gwen was wangsting about why cannibals want to eat people?
What I find interesting was the Ianto/Tosh interaction. I don't know what Ianto used to do at Torchwood One, but it couldn't exactly be field work - although getting the half-converted Lisa out of the burning ruins couldn't have been an easy task. Still, I think that mostly he must have done administrative and research work, so it's understandable that the others being adrenaline junkies alienated him a little. He did what he had to do for Lisa but *not* because he enjoyed such action hero stuff, I think.
Now that you've seen the episode, perhaps you understand why I think that the whole thing between him and Jack must have started as some kind of comfort sex. I think Jack cares about his co-workers, if for nobody else at this point, and he didn't want to lose Ianto so soon after losing Suzie. And poor Ianto seriously needed some comforting after this ordeal.
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Date: 2009-04-17 11:18 am (UTC)Yeah, me, too. I loved Tosh's little snide remark about Gwen getting her feet under the table quickly enough. *g* Ianto was really, really traumatized, which isn't particularly surprising. I mean, we're what? Two weeks after the Cyberwoman episode? And he gets beaten up and almost eaten? And nobody really cared in the end what happened to him, because Ohmg, Gwen was wangsting about why cannibals want to eat people?
What I find interesting was the Ianto/Tosh interaction. I don't know what Ianto used to do at Torchwood One, but it couldn't exactly be field work - although getting the half-converted Lisa out of the burning ruins couldn't have been an easy task. Still, I think that mostly he must have done administrative and research work, so it's understandable that the others being adrenaline junkies alienated him a little. He did what he had to do for Lisa but *not* because he enjoyed such action hero stuff, I think.
Now that you've seen the episode, perhaps you understand why I think that the whole thing between him and Jack must have started as some kind of comfort sex. I think Jack cares about his co-workers, if for nobody else at this point, and he didn't want to lose Ianto so soon after losing Suzie. And poor Ianto seriously needed some comforting after this ordeal.