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.

Comments

[joulez217.livejournal.com]

It is very very similar, although different in the same respect. I noticed it but then I watch Firefly way too much it's not healthy! You are right of course, Simon is so clueless, and Ianto isn't!!!

But I notice it!!!

[crabby-lioness.livejournal.com]

I love Whedon's background worlds to pieces, but I find his plots only marginally more interesting than Chris Carter's.

[joulez217.livejournal.com]

I think Whedon went on to just trying to entertain instead of having relly well thought out plots though. Not sure who you mean by the way?? Chris Carter??

[crabby-lioness.livejournal.com]

X-Files. It got to the point where I knew how an X-Files story would end before the opening credits rolled. With Firefly it usually took a whole 20 minutes.

[joulez217.livejournal.com]

Ah right never watched X Files to be honest! Yeah, I know what you mean, about being able to figure out what they were on about after so little time had passed.