I honestly can't decide. Or predict. The second and third time I saw it the reaction of course wasn't as strong, and it does make a difference knowing that they're already in talks about S4, and RTD seems to know how he'd continue with the story...
In any case I do think it's a sort of huge break for Jack, a turning point, the start of something new. He's been in a sort of in-between state for so long, waiting ever since he's got stranded on Earth, waiting to find out what happened to him, waiting for the Doctor, never really taking control of his life until S2, and even that mostly was just continuing to do what he'd done for the last, oh, hundred years. He's running away now, but I think that's also the most he's ever stopped to think about himself for a very long while, who he is, what he is capable of doing, and that he'll have to find a way to live with it, because now he knows for sure that it won't change, and God, stop me rambling, will you? :)
I think some people identified way too much with Ianto and brought a lot of issues into it, and I've been honestly starting to wonder if it isn't maybe a female thing, or at least predominantly female thing, looking at a relationship as this kind of power struggle. I know I do it, too, even in this case I really didn't see the problem. But then every time I'm making this argument in my head I don't get any further than Tonio Kröger and 'Wer am meisten liebt, ist der Unterlegene und muß leiden', so obviously not just a female thing...
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In any case I do think it's a sort of huge break for Jack, a turning point, the start of something new. He's been in a sort of in-between state for so long, waiting ever since he's got stranded on Earth, waiting to find out what happened to him, waiting for the Doctor, never really taking control of his life until S2, and even that mostly was just continuing to do what he'd done for the last, oh, hundred years. He's running away now, but I think that's also the most he's ever stopped to think about himself for a very long while, who he is, what he is capable of doing, and that he'll have to find a way to live with it, because now he knows for sure that it won't change, and God, stop me rambling, will you? :)
I think some people identified way too much with Ianto and brought a lot of issues into it, and I've been honestly starting to wonder if it isn't maybe a female thing, or at least predominantly female thing, looking at a relationship as this kind of power struggle. I know I do it, too, even in this case I really didn't see the problem. But then every time I'm making this argument in my head I don't get any further than Tonio Kröger and 'Wer am meisten liebt, ist der Unterlegene und muß leiden', so obviously not just a female thing...