Spoilers - SFX Interview
There is an interview on the SFX website here, that caused me to make many embarrassing high pitched noises. Highlights under the cut.
Ianto’s relationship with Jack has been a big talking point - do we see more depth to their relationship this year?
“Yeah, absolutely, a lot more. Their relationship becomes far less ambiguous, especially when you start discovering how Ianto initially got recruited into Torchwood Cardiff. That's touched upon, and Ianto and Jack’s working relationship is touched on. They work together a lot more, you see them on their own a lot more, because Ianto's always the last one to leave the Hub, and Jack lives in the Hub, so you see a lot of their conversation at the end of the day, and you get much more of a sense of the way their working relationship blurs with their personal relationship.”
Is there a Ianto-centred episode?
“Not in the way that ‘Cyberwoman’ was last year, where suddenly you had a line here and there and then - bang! - it was the focus of the episode, but he has been in it more from the beginning to the end, more of the team, and there are episodes where it’s Ianto’s investigation.”
"...we’re having a conversation and we’re having a different conversation underneath, it was a whole scene in subtext. Obviously there's subtext in everything, but the point of the scene was the fact that the whole scene was in subtext."
Did you have a lot to do with him [James Marsters] in that episode?
“Not a huge amount, but we had a really nice scene on the seventh floor of a building, where the lift opens and he appears behind me, and there's a confrontational scene there, and there's a bit of underlying erotic subtext that goes on between them as well. Which is nice!”
Excuse me while I hyperventilate in a corner. I honestly can't remember ever being this excited about a TV show before.
Ianto’s relationship with Jack has been a big talking point - do we see more depth to their relationship this year?
“Yeah, absolutely, a lot more. Their relationship becomes far less ambiguous, especially when you start discovering how Ianto initially got recruited into Torchwood Cardiff. That's touched upon, and Ianto and Jack’s working relationship is touched on. They work together a lot more, you see them on their own a lot more, because Ianto's always the last one to leave the Hub, and Jack lives in the Hub, so you see a lot of their conversation at the end of the day, and you get much more of a sense of the way their working relationship blurs with their personal relationship.”
Is there a Ianto-centred episode?
“Not in the way that ‘Cyberwoman’ was last year, where suddenly you had a line here and there and then - bang! - it was the focus of the episode, but he has been in it more from the beginning to the end, more of the team, and there are episodes where it’s Ianto’s investigation.”
"...we’re having a conversation and we’re having a different conversation underneath, it was a whole scene in subtext. Obviously there's subtext in everything, but the point of the scene was the fact that the whole scene was in subtext."
Did you have a lot to do with him [James Marsters] in that episode?
“Not a huge amount, but we had a really nice scene on the seventh floor of a building, where the lift opens and he appears behind me, and there's a confrontational scene there, and there's a bit of underlying erotic subtext that goes on between them as well. Which is nice!”
Excuse me while I hyperventilate in a corner. I honestly can't remember ever being this excited about a TV show before.