Is there aTorchwood/Firefly Parallel With Jack and Ianto?

[crabby_lioness]

 Leaving out any sexual interest for the moment, am I the only one who thinks the Jack/Ianto/Lisa relationship looks an awful lot like the Mal/Simon/River relationship in the first episodes of Firefly?

Simon has lied, cheated, and sacrificed everything out of love for the damaged and very dangerous River. Mal is apalled that Simon has brought this danger into his ship and upon their heads, but at the same time he can't help respecting Simon for everything that he's accomplished and for the fact that he was motivated by love and loyalty, so he goes out of his way to give Simon a break.

The difference, of course, is that Simon is so patronizingly clueless about most things I have the urge to slap him upside the head every hour on the hour and twice at meals and bedtime; whereas Ianto I just want to cuddle.

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[vae]

I can see a lot of parallels between Mal and Jack, and between Simon and Ianto, but I really, really don't see the Lisa and River. The circumstances are so different. So very different.

I could waffle about it for a long time because I deeply love both shows (though I think Firefly was better, more cohesive and clearer all round) but I'd bore everyone *g* so I'll just say - superficially it's similar, but when you look at character motivations and history and background, it's very different indeed.

[crabby-lioness.livejournal.com]

Both River and Lisa were turned into killing machines against their will by Big Scary Bad Guys. That's enough similarity for me.