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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[eumenidis.livejournal.com]

A TW/Firefly parallel between Mal/Simon/River & Jack/Ianto/Lisa...

Can alway rely on you, noble Lioness, to notice patterns no one else has. & yeah, now that you mention it, there *are* remarkable similarities.

& you may want to cuddle Ianto--& I am not immune to the allure--but while I might not want to pop him one, I do sometimes have the urge to shake him by the shoulders & yell, "You were at Canary Wharf; you work for TW, boy, get a clue!"

[crabby-lioness.livejournal.com]

There were almost 900 other people at Canary Wharf, so I imagine that sheltered him a bit. But I only have the urge to do that to him in Cyberwoman and Countrycide. I have the urge to do that to Gwen all the time.

[eumenidis.livejournal.com]

A bit, but it was still TW, & even if he was only like a clerk who works at a military base, he must have known, even if only intellectually, TW deals with weird & sometimes dangerous stuff--I mean, they apparently had armed soldiers right there, ready to go into action at a moment's notice. Even if Ianto was only there briefly, the presence of soldiers should have given him a glimmer. I do agree, though, that it was mostly "Cyberwoman" & "Countrycide" where he was so aggravatingly naive.

As for Gwen--oh, God, Gwen! (Clutches hair in dismay.) I don't know WHAT the writers were thinking, the first time we saw her she was presented as a clever, feisty cop experienced enough she took murder scenes & wrestling drunken yobbos twice her size in her stride, next thing you know she was wringing her hands & rolling her eyes like a particularly silly 13-year-old. Now *there's* a character I want to smack upside the head every hour on the hour.