You've created just the right amount of meticulous detail to fill in that how-did-he-ever-get-her-there? hole in Ianto's history - but better than that, for me, is how every bit of character here rings so true. Ianto's relentless attention to detail, that works so well for him when he has time to plan, but lets him down when he's dropped head-first into pure, brute danger. Jack's exceptional shrewd intelligence, underpinned by just enough human weakness to have him miss the last small details that might clue him in... Owen and Tosh and Suzie all feel spot-on, too. And those fragments of Ianto's life before Cardiff, all so very believable. Not least Lisa - you make her real and make sense of Ianto's driving determination to safeguard her above everything.
Really, I love this. It's intelligent and also emotionally resonant, it fits canon faultlessly, there's that sense of the irresistible subtext starting up between Ianto and Jack. Everything I want in an excellent Torchwood story, in fact!
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You've created just the right amount of meticulous detail to fill in that how-did-he-ever-get-her-there? hole in Ianto's history - but better than that, for me, is how every bit of character here rings so true. Ianto's relentless attention to detail, that works so well for him when he has time to plan, but lets him down when he's dropped head-first into pure, brute danger. Jack's exceptional shrewd intelligence, underpinned by just enough human weakness to have him miss the last small details that might clue him in... Owen and Tosh and Suzie all feel spot-on, too. And those fragments of Ianto's life before Cardiff, all so very believable. Not least Lisa - you make her real and make sense of Ianto's driving determination to safeguard her above everything.
Really, I love this. It's intelligent and also emotionally resonant, it fits canon faultlessly, there's that sense of the irresistible subtext starting up between Ianto and Jack. Everything I want in an excellent Torchwood story, in fact!