Oh Boo Freaking Hoo
For those of you who haven't seen Children of the Earth, or who just don't care about Torchwood in general, you may leave now. If you have and yet want to avoid my obscure Ianto Jones viewpoint, yeah, you should leave too.
Now, I want to say before I begin this that, I like Ianto now. I hated him in the first season as, well, he had no personality. He was really only there to be "eye candy" and to sleep with Jack...which is it's own form of eye candy. This only irritated me more for his increasing popularity. I didn't get what was so likable about a bland whiner. Really.
However, over the second season, I grew to enjoy his character. He had a sarcastic wit and actually did things throughout the show. And, no, this isn't because he can now actually use a gun. The majority of my favorite characters are the characters who can't fight in the least amount of the definition. I loved his one liners and his character grew into an actual person. I still don't like the whole Jack/Ianto pairing, because, quite frankly, it makes no sense to me. Jack CAN'T be in a monogamous relationship. It makes no sense! His past love that didn't work out I was okay with, but I don't see him as a relationship character. And Ianto's feelings for him seem to come out of no where. He went from deeply emo over Lisa to banging the Captian? Um, that makes no sense. And no matter what, Ianto is going to get hurt with this couple. It's not that Jack's trying to be an asshole, it's just how he is with relationships. There are very few fics that makes me accept this pairing: notevery's Whiskey being one. But I much prefer it as a side pairing that eventually leads to, or causes conflict with Ianto/Owen. Oh, don't look at me like that! They have probably the most emotion going on between them out of everyone. And this is from a fan who thinks that the whole Torchwood cast needs to just get it out of their system and have a massive orgy.
Anyway, as I didn't intend for this to be a full scale Ianto ramble, I just wanted to let you know that I don't not like Ianto. Because this leads me to my main point: Ianto's death.
Now, in general I was very...not interested in Children of the Earth. I didn't particularly like it. I was a little worried in the beginning that my reasoning for not caring was because I was still very upset about Tosh and Owen's death. I had to stop watching Angel for a very long time after Doyle died, and I really didn't want this to happen again. So, I kept watching despite the fact that it looked like that it was going to focus a lot on Ianto wanting more out of the relationship with Jack. And the random introduction of Ianto's sister annoyed me. If she had lived far away I could understand how she hadn't been brought up before, but it now it just seemed like a random after thought. So, overall, wasn't excited. But I decided to keep going just if it was my stubborn Owen fangirliness taking over.
When Ianto died, I felt bad about the fact that I didn't really care. I felt bad that so many of my online friends were so upset, but it's part of the job and, well, I wasn't caring about these episodes anyway.. I was mainly just frustrated with the fact that so many of the team are killed off now. Jack can't die and no one would care if Gwen did. Sorry to the Gwen fans, but she gets a lot of fan hate.
The supreme outlash of fan crying over Ianto's death is starting to piss me off. It's not just because so many people are now: "screw the fact that Tosh and Owen are dead, it's IANTO!!" DX And yes, that's a little exaggerated on my part, but it's there. And now people are being super hypocritical now that they used to be telling me to get over Tosh and Owen's death are now bitching over Ianto. But the thing that happened today is what really set me off, and is really what inspired this rant today. I drew a "mourning Tosh and Owen" picture a while back, and I've been getting "I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY KILLED IANTO" comments on it. I'm sorry, that's not okay! I'm still regretting not telling them off, but I know they didn't mean to be insensitive, so I'm probably just going to put a comment on the pic alerting people that it hurts my feelings. It's a just an indignity. It's basically telling me that Ianto's death was worse than Tosh and Owen's when, to me at least, it wasn't. And it HURTS!
So yes, I'm upset. Sorry.
Now, I want to say before I begin this that, I like Ianto now. I hated him in the first season as, well, he had no personality. He was really only there to be "eye candy" and to sleep with Jack...which is it's own form of eye candy. This only irritated me more for his increasing popularity. I didn't get what was so likable about a bland whiner. Really.
However, over the second season, I grew to enjoy his character. He had a sarcastic wit and actually did things throughout the show. And, no, this isn't because he can now actually use a gun. The majority of my favorite characters are the characters who can't fight in the least amount of the definition. I loved his one liners and his character grew into an actual person. I still don't like the whole Jack/Ianto pairing, because, quite frankly, it makes no sense to me. Jack CAN'T be in a monogamous relationship. It makes no sense! His past love that didn't work out I was okay with, but I don't see him as a relationship character. And Ianto's feelings for him seem to come out of no where. He went from deeply emo over Lisa to banging the Captian? Um, that makes no sense. And no matter what, Ianto is going to get hurt with this couple. It's not that Jack's trying to be an asshole, it's just how he is with relationships. There are very few fics that makes me accept this pairing: notevery's Whiskey being one. But I much prefer it as a side pairing that eventually leads to, or causes conflict with Ianto/Owen. Oh, don't look at me like that! They have probably the most emotion going on between them out of everyone. And this is from a fan who thinks that the whole Torchwood cast needs to just get it out of their system and have a massive orgy.
Anyway, as I didn't intend for this to be a full scale Ianto ramble, I just wanted to let you know that I don't not like Ianto. Because this leads me to my main point: Ianto's death.
Now, in general I was very...not interested in Children of the Earth. I didn't particularly like it. I was a little worried in the beginning that my reasoning for not caring was because I was still very upset about Tosh and Owen's death. I had to stop watching Angel for a very long time after Doyle died, and I really didn't want this to happen again. So, I kept watching despite the fact that it looked like that it was going to focus a lot on Ianto wanting more out of the relationship with Jack. And the random introduction of Ianto's sister annoyed me. If she had lived far away I could understand how she hadn't been brought up before, but it now it just seemed like a random after thought. So, overall, wasn't excited. But I decided to keep going just if it was my stubborn Owen fangirliness taking over.
When Ianto died, I felt bad about the fact that I didn't really care. I felt bad that so many of my online friends were so upset, but it's part of the job and, well, I wasn't caring about these episodes anyway.. I was mainly just frustrated with the fact that so many of the team are killed off now. Jack can't die and no one would care if Gwen did. Sorry to the Gwen fans, but she gets a lot of fan hate.
The supreme outlash of fan crying over Ianto's death is starting to piss me off. It's not just because so many people are now: "screw the fact that Tosh and Owen are dead, it's IANTO!!" DX And yes, that's a little exaggerated on my part, but it's there. And now people are being super hypocritical now that they used to be telling me to get over Tosh and Owen's death are now bitching over Ianto. But the thing that happened today is what really set me off, and is really what inspired this rant today. I drew a "mourning Tosh and Owen" picture a while back, and I've been getting "I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY KILLED IANTO" comments on it. I'm sorry, that's not okay! I'm still regretting not telling them off, but I know they didn't mean to be insensitive, so I'm probably just going to put a comment on the pic alerting people that it hurts my feelings. It's a just an indignity. It's basically telling me that Ianto's death was worse than Tosh and Owen's when, to me at least, it wasn't. And it HURTS!
So yes, I'm upset. Sorry.