A little bit of this and that...
So, I have 4 fics and two essays vying for attention in my head. This is rather tiring. So this morning I shall point you towards two good things, and chat a little about a third.
1) Short fic rec: How Xander Got Fired From That Phone Sex Line by gabrielleabelle. Hilarious!
2) Vid rec: Bachelorette by obsessive24. Absolutely *brilliant* vid looking at gender roles on Buffy.
3) Con reports. *flaily hands* kalichan and rm have notes from GDL's panels ( One, Two and Three. Spoilers for COE obviously.)
Darn I wish I could go to these things:
GDL talking about the evolution of the Ianto/Jack relations. "Didn't know I was going to be the leading man's man until probably about episode 5 or 6." "Amazing, I'm going to be kissing the leading man, you have to give me more lines!"
All italics from the notes above.
CoE question: would Ianto have made the same choice Jack made about Stephen if the issue had been his niece or nephew? THIS IS THE BEST QUESTION EVER.
GDL says Ianto would have had to. Said it would have destroyed Ianto more than it did Jack... as Jack has had time to develop an ability and a hardened shell to deal with those sort of choices. But it would have utterly destroyed Ianto.
That really *is* a fantastic question, and I could see Ianto doing a Frobisher. And about the death:
They hated first draft of death scene. Read badly on purpose so they got it changed. Sounds like there was I love you I love you too in the original version. [...] GDL says he wanted the death scene to be as unremarkable and wasted and real as possible. He didn't want it to be sweeping. didn't prep a lot. Wanted it to be pointless. Confirms the mutual I love yous were the problem with the first draft.
This! This, exactly, is how I feel.
q: "do you think Jack can continue to be heroic without Ianto there to be that balancing influence.
a: "No."
q: "What influence do you think Ianto's had on him?"
a: "I think Ianto taught him about love."
audience: awwwwwwwwwwwww
a: "Ianto's death took him to a place where he head nothing left and without that love in his life he's cold enough to do what he needs to do. He's gone off into space to see if he can find the ability to love again."
q: "I'm really glad you say that, I think Ianto was all about unconditional love and you rarely see that on TV."
a: "I agree"
::meeps and crawls into corner to mourn dead 'ship::
(This totally confirms my own thoughts and actually ties in with one of those essays I mentioned. Also, one of the evil bunnies might be a fix-it. Shut up. It's not what you think.)
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One other thing I've been pondering is Harriet Jones. There is of course the 'If the Doctor hadn't deposed her, things would have turned out differently', which is most probably true. However, I was struck by another thought - the fact that the Sycorax were going back to the stars with a message from the Doctor, and Harriet shot them down. What if she hadn't? Would the Doctor's warning have reached the 456, and would it have had any impact on their actions?
We'll never know.
Anyway, I have children to look after...
1) Short fic rec: How Xander Got Fired From That Phone Sex Line by gabrielleabelle. Hilarious!
2) Vid rec: Bachelorette by obsessive24. Absolutely *brilliant* vid looking at gender roles on Buffy.
3) Con reports. *flaily hands* kalichan and rm have notes from GDL's panels ( One, Two and Three. Spoilers for COE obviously.)
Darn I wish I could go to these things:
GDL talking about the evolution of the Ianto/Jack relations. "Didn't know I was going to be the leading man's man until probably about episode 5 or 6." "Amazing, I'm going to be kissing the leading man, you have to give me more lines!"
All italics from the notes above.
CoE question: would Ianto have made the same choice Jack made about Stephen if the issue had been his niece or nephew? THIS IS THE BEST QUESTION EVER.
GDL says Ianto would have had to. Said it would have destroyed Ianto more than it did Jack... as Jack has had time to develop an ability and a hardened shell to deal with those sort of choices. But it would have utterly destroyed Ianto.
That really *is* a fantastic question, and I could see Ianto doing a Frobisher. And about the death:
They hated first draft of death scene. Read badly on purpose so they got it changed. Sounds like there was I love you I love you too in the original version. [...] GDL says he wanted the death scene to be as unremarkable and wasted and real as possible. He didn't want it to be sweeping. didn't prep a lot. Wanted it to be pointless. Confirms the mutual I love yous were the problem with the first draft.
This! This, exactly, is how I feel.
q: "do you think Jack can continue to be heroic without Ianto there to be that balancing influence.
a: "No."
q: "What influence do you think Ianto's had on him?"
a: "I think Ianto taught him about love."
audience: awwwwwwwwwwwww
a: "Ianto's death took him to a place where he head nothing left and without that love in his life he's cold enough to do what he needs to do. He's gone off into space to see if he can find the ability to love again."
q: "I'm really glad you say that, I think Ianto was all about unconditional love and you rarely see that on TV."
a: "I agree"
::meeps and crawls into corner to mourn dead 'ship::
(This totally confirms my own thoughts and actually ties in with one of those essays I mentioned. Also, one of the evil bunnies might be a fix-it. Shut up. It's not what you think.)
*****
One other thing I've been pondering is Harriet Jones. There is of course the 'If the Doctor hadn't deposed her, things would have turned out differently', which is most probably true. However, I was struck by another thought - the fact that the Sycorax were going back to the stars with a message from the Doctor, and Harriet shot them down. What if she hadn't? Would the Doctor's warning have reached the 456, and would it have had any impact on their actions?
We'll never know.
Anyway, I have children to look after...