Sorry, I could have found those on my own, but I was too lazy...
So, I read through your CoE meta-post, and I basically think you're brilliant, but you already knew that. The one thing that didn't see exactly as you did was the Big End with a capital E in the end. I don't know, maybe it's because I'm not as emotionally invested in the show. I mean, I was still horribly sad and totally horrified, but I guess was more able to watch it as just pretty damn great TV. And just the fact that Gwen is pregnant at the end made that scene not at all hopeless to me. I think if Gwen really needs him or (god forbid) her child, or even Rhys, he'd come back. *Because* he did what he did. Because CoE, after all, was about Jack taking responsibility, and even if he's been walking out and not caring, or pretending not to care, for centuries, that's not an option for him anymore.
Or, possibly, this is all just bad fanfiction I'm writing out in my head. Anyway, yeah, pretty much agree with everything you say. Didn't really get the abused!Ianto thing. For the most part, I actually thought all their interaction as a couple was, well, cute. Jack's still being Jack, and Ianto is being Ianto, but in the end they are just like any other couple who's adjusting to being a couple, to people seeing them like that.
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So, I read through your CoE meta-post, and I basically think you're brilliant, but you already knew that. The one thing that didn't see exactly as you did was the Big End with a capital E in the end. I don't know, maybe it's because I'm not as emotionally invested in the show. I mean, I was still horribly sad and totally horrified, but I guess was more able to watch it as just pretty damn great TV. And just the fact that Gwen is pregnant at the end made that scene not at all hopeless to me. I think if Gwen really needs him or (god forbid) her child, or even Rhys, he'd come back. *Because* he did what he did. Because CoE, after all, was about Jack taking responsibility, and even if he's been walking out and not caring, or pretending not to care, for centuries, that's not an option for him anymore.
Or, possibly, this is all just bad fanfiction I'm writing out in my head. Anyway, yeah, pretty much agree with everything you say. Didn't really get the abused!Ianto thing. For the most part, I actually thought all their interaction as a couple was, well, cute. Jack's still being Jack, and Ianto is being Ianto, but in the end they are just like any other couple who's adjusting to being a couple, to people seeing them like that.