Word, that was incredibly sad, despite being hot on the heels of Tosh and Owen's deaths in S2.
I'm not a huge Ianto fan (I don't hate him, I just...don't care all that much about him fannishly), but that was pretty gutting, and I really feel terrible for my Jack/Ianto fan friends. :(
On a more heartless note, I'm kind of pissed, because the story they are telling here is one of the best they've ever told on TW, and killing off Ianto kind of overshadows it. I'll be interested to see how they deal tonight.
I'm kind of pissed, because the story they are telling here is one of the best they've ever told on TW, and killing off Ianto kind of overshadows it.
*nods* Yeah, like I commented elsewhere just now, that's totally what the season two finale did, because Owen's death and subsequent arc was really fantastic television, gut-wrenching and heart-moving, and now for me it's forever overshadowed by knowing how it all comes out. And this arc is always going to be "the arc where Ianto died ... and then all this other stuff happened".
I was lucky enough not to be terribly invested in Ianto (actually, I was surprised that I felt his death as much as I did). But I'm really tired of the unrelenting gloom. Unless they use some kind of reset button (in which case all of this angst is going to feel like a terrible cheat), I'm not really sure how much of a happy ending they can pull out of this. And I don't really think Torchwood is a good enough show to pull off an unrelenting series of unhappy endings, y'know? It's a fun show, but when it's not killing characters, it's pretty much total crack. I'm not learning anything or having my horizons expanded; I'm just getting emotionally bludgeoned on a regular basis (if that isn't a bit too melodramatic for the situation).
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I'm not a huge Ianto fan (I don't hate him, I just...don't care all that much about him fannishly), but that was pretty gutting, and I really feel terrible for my Jack/Ianto fan friends. :(
On a more heartless note, I'm kind of pissed, because the story they are telling here is one of the best they've ever told on TW, and killing off Ianto kind of overshadows it. I'll be interested to see how they deal tonight.
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*nods* Yeah, like I commented elsewhere just now, that's totally what the season two finale did, because Owen's death and subsequent arc was really fantastic television, gut-wrenching and heart-moving, and now for me it's forever overshadowed by knowing how it all comes out. And this arc is always going to be "the arc where Ianto died ... and then all this other stuff happened".
I was lucky enough not to be terribly invested in Ianto (actually, I was surprised that I felt his death as much as I did). But I'm really tired of the unrelenting gloom. Unless they use some kind of reset button (in which case all of this angst is going to feel like a terrible cheat), I'm not really sure how much of a happy ending they can pull out of this. And I don't really think Torchwood is a good enough show to pull off an unrelenting series of unhappy endings, y'know? It's a fun show, but when it's not killing characters, it's pretty much total crack. I'm not learning anything or having my horizons expanded; I'm just getting emotionally bludgeoned on a regular basis (if that isn't a bit too melodramatic for the situation).