Torchwood Magazine LOL and Fail

[scarlettgirl]

I was flipping through the latest issue of Torchwood Magazine at B&N (which I've decided I love, btw, because it reminds me so much of the Teen Beat/Tiger Beat mags of my youth in where they take 500 words of real news and somehow manage to spin it into 50,000 words of copy, with the added short stories and comics) when I turned to the "Take Over

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[gwynnega]

That is indeed a headscratcher.

By the way, my copy of Chicks Dig Time Lords just arrived in the mail today!!

[scarlettgirl]

It is, isn't it?

By the way, my copy of Chicks Dig Time Lords just arrived in the mail today!!

Yay!

[nostalgia_lj]

I've never been able to work out what that relationship even is in canon, so I would be like "whut I do?"

[neadods]

IMO, in canon it was a lot of sex that we were supposed to think was love, but was born of Ianto's need and Jack's now compulsive need to manipulate others.

...which makes it about as healthy as any other relationship in the Whoniverse for the last several years...

[nostalgia_lj]

Yeah, I could never work out how it was True Love when it seemed to be mostly shagging and the occasional kiss.

[neadods]

Jack says all the right things to be sweet and loving... anywhere but on screen. (Fanfic, audios, tie-in books, etc.)

Also, thinking it was true love was at least a bright spot in a seriously distopian show.

ETA: Otherwise, love was even more screwed up than in Who. Jack was loved by a woman who outgrew him and thinks he's his own son, Rhys loves a woman who lies to him and cheated on him and retconned her own confession, Gwen claims to love Rhys and banged Owen and retconned Rhys, Tosh loved Owen, who treated her like a doormat, and we don't even need to go into Round #37982256 of Owen's Issues With Women.

[nwhepcat]

I think fans should slam them with Jack/Ianto stories, pointing out it's totally canon.

[gwynnega]

Plus, that would be giving Ianto lots to do!!

[scarlettgirl]

But only if they're Livejournal peeps from the UK since the contest is elitist that way. ;)

Come on LJ fandom, someone from here can totally win this thing!

[rm]

I assume they don't quite get what slash is/can be and that the Jack/Ianto relationship as portrayed in canon is fine.

[scarlettgirl]

Fannish terms used (incorrectly) by the population at large always startles me. They know just enough to be offensive.

[bodlon]

I suspect they mean slash = porn, and that utilizing the relationship as seen in the spin-off media should be okay.

[scarlettgirl]

I would hope it would be okay but the "slash does not mean what you think it means" use throws me every time.