Wow. Can I just say that your idea and reasoning here is brilliant? Personally, I don't read any Immortal! Ianto stuff as I see that it would be a curse and they'd end up hating each other and so on and so forth.
However, the way you explain it here in relation to the other two series and how Torchwood is all about paying for being selfish and being rewarded for selflessness is just brilliant! I see it in a total new light not and just wow. I'm sure I could come up with something more coherent and valuable here but I'm just bowled over by the logic in this and why aren't you writing for Torchood???
I completely agree with Jack having to sacrifice Stephen after having lost Ianto and been blown up and killed however many times and having all the past dragged up. Okay, so they might want to have shown that all actions have consequences and no one gets away with anything but seriously? I think the blowing up and growing the body back and then losing Ianto and Stephen and in a way, Alice in less than two days was a bit much. It did seem very much 'lets torture Jack continuously for five days - he's immortal, he doesn't care'.
I don't think he should have been punished for the 1965 thing as he was being forced to do it and it was the whole sacrifice the few for the many idea. Either way those kids would have died wither from being sacrificed or by the indonesian flu or whatever it was they were threatening to send over.
Just out of interest, did we see Ianto's death coming? Was it really that obvious? I didn't see it coming but then, I wasn't really involved in Torchwood at the time so I might have missed a lot of stuff.
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However, the way you explain it here in relation to the other two series and how Torchwood is all about paying for being selfish and being rewarded for selflessness is just brilliant! I see it in a total new light not and just wow. I'm sure I could come up with something more coherent and valuable here but I'm just bowled over by the logic in this and why aren't you writing for Torchood???
I completely agree with Jack having to sacrifice Stephen after having lost Ianto and been blown up and killed however many times and having all the past dragged up. Okay, so they might want to have shown that all actions have consequences and no one gets away with anything but seriously? I think the blowing up and growing the body back and then losing Ianto and Stephen and in a way, Alice in less than two days was a bit much. It did seem very much 'lets torture Jack continuously for five days - he's immortal, he doesn't care'.
I don't think he should have been punished for the 1965 thing as he was being forced to do it and it was the whole sacrifice the few for the many idea. Either way those kids would have died wither from being sacrificed or by the indonesian flu or whatever it was they were threatening to send over.
Just out of interest, did we see Ianto's death coming? Was it really that obvious? I didn't see it coming but then, I wasn't really involved in Torchwood at the time so I might have missed a lot of stuff.