Due to scheduling complexities that began with the cruise and have lasted for six months, Patty and I are having Christmas 2009 today.
The second part of the comic GDL wrote for Torchwood Magazine is out and making the rounds. It's called "Shrouded" and is ridiculously interesting on more than few levels: including fan-creator dialogue, meta commentary, the death stuff I'm doing (I'll be talking about it in my presentation at Dragon*Con on mourning responses to illustrated narratives), what is canon in a narrative universe where infinite AU's are cannon, etc.
As a comic itself, I don't care that much, but I fully admit to not really having the receptor sites for this sort of thing. As dialogue though, it's AMAZING. I'm very curious to see how it's going to be received. I suspect messily. Anyway, props to all involved.
1. Blame the mandarin collar on the future. That's what everybody wears in future dystopias.
2. I can go either way on this. Jack's the sort of man who gives up and gives up hard when he hits his limit, but Gwen's pretty good at wheedling him into five more minutes. It's possible he had loose ends to tie up before he walked out. Or, if one embraces the payoff, the funeral doesn't necessarily exist in the same precise timeline as CoE, and Jack stays.
2. Yeah, I think this is AU to CoE, and arguably is intended to be a response to the desired fannish AU -- i.e., you don't get to keep Ianto and keep him good and keep him with Jack.
Look, the man's wearing a mandarin collar. He rocks it, no mistake, but to cast him as evil based soley on the sartorial codes of his future dystopia...
(Give him a goatee, on the other hand, and the case is clearer.)
That could have been a spite shag. The enemy of one's enemy, after all. John Hart is an unreliable source! Oh sure, there's Rhys involved, and surely he's more reliable, but that's just an imposition of a particular value system kicking in.
She did sort of creep up on him in the car with a knife, though.
Evil = stubbornly seeking to prove the superiority of one's worldview or biases in spite of reality?
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2. I can go either way on this. Jack's the sort of man who gives up and gives up hard when he hits his limit, but Gwen's pretty good at wheedling him into five more minutes. It's possible he had loose ends to tie up before he walked out. Or, if one embraces the payoff, the funeral doesn't necessarily exist in the same precise timeline as CoE, and Jack stays.
3. Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey, many-worldy?
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Good Ianto
Jack/Ianto
Live Ianto
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- Evil Ianto, who is alive, and with Jack
- Good Ianto, who is dead, and with Jack (CoE)
- Good Ianto, who is alive, but not with Jack
The comic's ending, though, implies that you can also have just one of the three:
- Good Ianto, who is dead, and not with Jack
- Evil Ianto, who is alive, and not with Jack (the comic)
- Evil Ianto, who is dead, and with Jack
I suppose you could also have all/nothing:
- Evil Ianto, who is dead, and not with Jack
- Good Ianto, who is alive, and is with Jack
It's like its own little prompt table.
("Evil" is, obv. shorthand, and not a proper judgment...)
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(Give him a goatee, on the other hand, and the case is clearer.)
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That could have been a spite shag. The enemy of one's enemy, after all. John Hart is an unreliable source! Oh sure, there's Rhys involved, and surely he's more reliable, but that's just an imposition of a particular value system kicking in.
She did sort of creep up on him in the car with a knife, though.
Evil = stubbornly seeking to prove the superiority of one's worldview or biases in spite of reality?