Thanks for pointing that out. I knew that Ianto got a few of Gwen's lines in FootR, but I wasn't aware that the episodes had been switched. It must have been in connection with the decision to kill Owen, because without the 'who'll save me?' and the story about Gray, Jack's resurrection attempt would have looked even more completely irrational after the Suzie disaster.
And that sequence makes a lot of sense. The slow FootR would have fit better at the beginning of the season, fleshing out Ianto's life and background at least a bit more, and Adam would have been even more powerful between SB and Adrift, fixing the hole in the Jack/Gwen/Rhys arc (because now that you mention it, the change from SB to the sudden fight in Adrift does seem to come a bit out of nowhere), and would have made for one hell of a Jack/Ianto scene. As for Owen - so unless his lines in Adam were changed, I guess it would still have been he who'd have died in Exit Wounds?
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And that sequence makes a lot of sense. The slow FootR would have fit better at the beginning of the season, fleshing out Ianto's life and background at least a bit more, and Adam would have been even more powerful between SB and Adrift, fixing the hole in the Jack/Gwen/Rhys arc (because now that you mention it, the change from SB to the sudden fight in Adrift does seem to come a bit out of nowhere), and would have made for one hell of a Jack/Ianto scene. As for Owen - so unless his lines in Adam were changed, I guess it would still have been he who'd have died in Exit Wounds?