They're both twenty-something white males... but that's about as far as it goes! Alonso isn't a replacement for anyone, any more than Ianto was a replacement for Estelle or real!Jack. Characters, as you say, are separate entities (with separate names!), not indivisible parts of some chimeric pairing-monster.
I loved that little scene - after all that time panicking whenever Jack said hello to anyone, the Doctor's parting gift is an introduction! :) Entirely appropriate. And it's good to see Jack smile again - we don't know if this is at the start of his healing process or near the end, but it's lovely to see him cheer up on-screen. He's had a hard time of it lately but this lets the viewers know that he will recover, and that's great.
(to be honest, the accidental loss of yet another lover would seem likely to be very much secondary in Jack's mind to that whole "choosing to actively sacrifice his own grandson in front of a screaming Alice" thing! That's the loss that I immediately think of with CoE - Ianto's was rather incidental, much like the character always was, but Steven's is the point at which it all gets too much to bear.)
It was day 5 CoE that had me distraught, not day 4, even though I was really upset about Ianto so I'll go with you regarding Steven's loss and its effect on Jack (though I am going to disagree about Ianto being incidental, but hey, each to their own).
The thing with name smushing makes me shudder. We didn't do it to Kirk/Spock, Paris/Kim, Jim/Blair, Mulder/Krychek et al back in the day so why now? Argh!
With you utterly on smushing, but I'm just dipping a tentative toe in the Moonlight fandom and I discovered one that makes me smile. Dunno if you're familiar, but the main pairing in the show (tho as always not necessarily in the fic!) is Mick and Beth, and this has been smushed to McBeth! XD
I loved that little scene - after all that time panicking whenever Jack said hello to anyone, the Doctor's parting gift is an introduction! :) Entirely appropriate. And it's good to see Jack smile again - we don't know if this is at the start of his healing process or near the end, but it's lovely to see him cheer up on-screen. He's had a hard time of it lately but this lets the viewers know that he will recover, and that's great.
(to be honest, the accidental loss of yet another lover would seem likely to be very much secondary in Jack's mind to that whole "choosing to actively sacrifice his own grandson in front of a screaming Alice" thing! That's the loss that I immediately think of with CoE - Ianto's was rather incidental, much like the character always was, but Steven's is the point at which it all gets too much to bear.)
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The thing with name smushing makes me shudder. We didn't do it to Kirk/Spock, Paris/Kim, Jim/Blair, Mulder/Krychek et al back in the day so why now? Argh!
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