And Also Some Other Things Happened.

[rionaleonhart]

YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO MAKE ME CRY, TORCHWOOD

YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE RUBBISH

I'M SUPPOSED TO MOCK YOU

I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO HAVE ANY ACTUAL EMOTIONAL INVESTMENT

ajghjgdahfjafhgh why why why would you do this to me


On the one hand, I am sort of glad that, if Ianto had to die (and, er, it really doesn't look as if Torchwood has a future, does it?), it was after Torchwood became good, so I could really care about it. On the other, adjghjadjgjfghh crying.

(Although I was immensely distressed during the actual dying scene, I didn't actually start sobbing until Gwen was looking at his body and Jack put his arm around her and I can't even be coherent right now. Torchwood, you absolute bastard of a show, you clearly became good just so you could get me emotionally invested and then hit me with that.)

OH, AND TORCHWOOD WERE BEING SO AWESOME JUST BEFORE, and of course I thought 'well, this all seems to be going a little too smoothly, obviously something is going to go wrong, there's still one episode left', but I wasn't expecting them to freaking kill Ianto. (Possibly also because there was still one episode left.)

I never really 'shipped Jack/Ianto that much. Of course it had to creep up on me now.


Were - were there other things in that episode?

Well, there was confirmation that the 456 is a mutated Doduo Dodrio, but oh, all right, I am so distressed by Ianto's death that I cannot even think about silly Pokémon crossovers. (That really is a sign that something's wrong.)

The lack of Pokémon crossovers means, of course, that this entry has nothing to distinguish it from the hordes of no doubt identical posts all over your flist right now, but I need to post it anyway.

IANTOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Comments

[make-a-move.livejournal.com]

IANTO.

D: D: D:

[rionaleonhart]

I like that you edited your entry just to add 'D:' faces.

YOU KNOW WHAT I DON'T LIKE? KILLING IANTO.

[make-a-move.livejournal.com]

I needed to accurately convey my UTTER DISTRESS.

I DON'T LIKE THIS EITHER. I MAY BREAK UP WITH TORCHWOOD IF HE DOESN'T SOMEHOW COME BACK. I DON'T CARE HOW IMPLAUSIBLE THIS MAY BE. BRING ME IANTO OR... OKAY, 'BRING ME DEATH' IS ENTIRELY INAPPROPRIATE HERE.

edit: Sorry for all the editing. Blimey.

[rionaleonhart]

Given the destruction of the Hub, the loss of the car and the fact that only two of the initial Torchwood main cast remain, I suspect that Torchwood may break up with us first.

It appears I am a friend to brackets, tonight.

[make-a-move.livejournal.com]

This is true. Though I have a tingly feeling (not like that) that the car may come back into play. It seems a bit innocuous (and rubbish) just having it stolen by chavs.

[denorios.livejournal.com]

Ianto...

*cries*

[rionaleonhart]

Have a hug. (That's a lovely and now heartbreaking icon you have there.)

[ms-katonic.livejournal.com]

CANNOT STOP CRYING. DDDDDDDD:

MESSED-UP AND WRONG. IANTOOOOOOO!!!!!!! *wails*

[rionaleonhart]

It is so wrong. You can't kill Ianto! He's a third (or perhaps a quarter, now that Rhys has a larger part) of the cast! And also he's Ianto!

[picaropicara.livejournal.com]

I've been waiting for this post since I saw it pop up in my facebook feed. Mourn it.

[rionaleonhart]

Hello! I don't recognise your username; have we met before? Sorry if we have and I am just being rubbish. (I see you know timydamonkey, though, and timydamonkey is great, so that's a good sign.)

In any case, it is nice to meet you!

[picaropicara.livejournal.com]

You probably don't, but I was the mysterious Hetalia anonynja. But I have a fic journal now so... hi

Yes :D She's been linking me to your posts for a while now

I'm going to be very quiet now till I stop sounding like a stalker

[rionaleonhart]

Oh, the mysterious anonymous dropper of adorable video links! Hello again! Please don't leave; you don't sound stalkery at all.

[picaropicara.livejournal.com]

Yet.

[littlemoose.livejournal.com]

I admit to actual real tears. I was, in fact, bawling.

D:

[rionaleonhart]

From the look of my flist, everyone was crying this evening.

I cannot believe what Torchwood has done over this week. It has risen out of its rubbishness, spread its flaming wings of awesome, and then broken everyone's hearts.

Why do you hate us, Torchwood? I - I know we mocked you, but that's no reason to take Ianto.

[wanttobeatree.livejournal.com]

... They killed IANTO?

HOW MANY CHARACTERS DO THEY HAVE LEFT??

[rionaleonhart]

Er. Jack and Gwen are the only Torchwood operatives left. They've got Rhys helping them out.

That's more or less it.

[wanttobeatree.livejournal.com]

Good lord.

I predict some Battle Royale-esque scenario in the final episode. And then a Ozymandias drops a giant squid on the Hub JUST TO FINISH THE SURVIVOR OFF.

[rionaleonhart]

They've, er, already blown up the Hub, actually.

[wanttobeatree.livejournal.com]

I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN.

[littlered2.livejournal.com]

I haven't accepted it. HE WILL BE FINE NEXT EPISODE SO I HAVE NO NEED TO CRY.

Damn; on the one hand, I am glad that the series I first decided to watch Torchwood was the one in which it actually became good, but on the other, DON'T KILL IANTO. Not on.

[rionaleonhart]

I would laugh terribly hard if the next episode began with Ianto fine and well and no explanation whatsoever. In reality, however, it is probably not going to happen and I am just going to be sad instead.

I am actually a bit frustrated by Torchwood's goodness this series. Obviously I don't dislike it, but if you were capable of such brilliance, writers, where was it for the past two years?

[urawrd.livejournal.com]

I just. Seriously. I barely watched the freaking first series, but then I got into it at the start of series 2 and I just. NO.

[rionaleonhart]

I didn't think they were going to do it! I saw people pointing out all the 'IANTO IS GOING TO DIE' foreshadowing, and I just thought 'pfft, no, they're not going to kill Ianto' and continued on my merry way.

I feel very silly indeed now.

And by 'very silly indeed' I mean 'immensely woeful'.

[reipan.livejournal.com]

I didn't think they would have the guts. I thought they might, but then I thought "no - it's Ianto - they wouldn't have the guts".

...ASKSFSETGMREOIBGMF HOW WHY IS IANTO NO WHY IANTO NOOOOOOO

In other news, at time of posting "Ianto" was the third trending topic on Twitter, above the Iran election and Micheal Jackson. WELL DONE, TORCHWOOD: YOU BROKE THE INTERNET.

[rionaleonhart]

Exactly! I mean, I know Torchwood has killed off its characters before, but I just didn't expect it when there were only four characters left. Also, yes, it's Ianto.

COME BACK, IANTO.

[bubbles-san.livejournal.com]

WAIT WAIT WAIT.

They blew up the hub? What about Myfanwy? D:

(Also, Ianto? No! I mean, I was never that attached to Ianto, but that didn't mean I wanted him to die!)

[bubbles-san.livejournal.com]

Also, I have convinced hurricanine to friend you because she keeps doing pokemanips and locking them and I didn't feel like linking you to every single one.

Soyes.

[rionaleonhart]

She has just dropped by in my previous entry to say hello! And so I suppose I have you to thank for my shiny new access to a picture of Simon Pegg in a kilt with a Swablu and a Totodile, in which case my thanks are profuse.

Regarding Myfanwy: we haven't heard anything. I do hope she's all right. I'd trade her for Ianto, though.

[bubbles-san.livejournal.com]

You may let the worshipping begin now. *patiently awaits worshipping*

Oh, I do hope Myfanwy's all right! I am considering a Star Trek/Torchwood/Doctor Who/Twilight Zone/Lord of the Rings crossover and she is rather important. (Of course, so were Ianto and Tosh and Owen... er... right. May have to rethink this a bit.)

[madmogs.livejournal.com]

Have you considered the amazing power of denial?

(I wants to read this: it sounds like pure crack.)

[bubbles-san.livejournal.com]

I'll probably never write it. I started brainstorming it with my cousin on a bus trip- what, five years ago? four? just after the DW series one finale- and wrote down little snippents of it for kicks.

The only part I remember is where Mr. Serling appears on the TARDIS to warn the Doctor that he's entering the ~Twilight Zone~. Rod Serling=Time Lord. The door in the opening is in fact the door to his TARDIS.

Also, because of the space break, the above comment looks like it says Twilight is involved with this crossover. I may have to find a way for it to mock Twilight now. ("You're from the Twilight Zone? Is it filled with ~vampires~?")

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

They're really running out of people on Torchwood, aren't they? It's going to end up as just Jack, having been killed several times, stuck alive and alone. (Total random guess.)

[dictionary00.livejournal.com]

Totally plausible random guess, actually (and now you're scaring me). It would be just like Russell T. Davies to clear out all his killable characters before he quits! God, I love him but I CAN'T TAKE ALL THESE PEOPLE DYING IN FRONT OF ME THIS IS NOT WHY I SIGNED UP FOR A SERIES WITH IMMORTAL CHARACTERS

[bubbles-san.livejournal.com]

I....

Actually, that makes sense in a way- they're killing everybody off, either as a way to get an ~all new cast~ or finding an excuse for Jack to rejoin the TARDIS crew without being all "BAW, I don't want to leave all my fwends!"

(Note: Mocking is how I deal with grief.)

[rionaleonhart]

That would be a horrible way to end it, and so, of course, that's probably what they're going to do. Gits.

[dictionary00.livejournal.com]

IANTO DIES WHAT

...Fuck. Fuck.

This is what I get for being a spoiler whore, isn't it? "You won't be able to watch the show for a month!" says I. "Can't hurt to see whether Torchwood is any good before watching!" says I.

...argh. *shoots self in head*

He comes back in the final episode, right? Jack magically fixes his vortex manipulator and goes back in time to save Ianto and rips the fabric of spacetime doing it whereupon the Doctor shows up and saves EVERYONE and no one dies and it's all sunshine and puppies right? RIGHT?

[rionaleonhart]

Oh, dear. I'm very sorry for spoiling you!

Well, obviously that is what is going to happen in the final episode. No need to be concerned at all.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

It has three heads, so it's a Dodrio. With, er, a creepy kid with some sort of mask attached to it.

[rionaleonhart]

Ah, I was a bit confused about the number of heads (there was a quick flash of what looked like it might have been three heads, but for the most part the camera only focused on two at a time). A Dodrio, then! Definitely a member of that evolutionary family gone horribly horribly wrong, at any rate.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

There was someone saying 'it's got three heartbeats!' and then Frobisher said 'well, it's got three heads', so that was confirmed. I am loving the fact that they're keeping the alien hidden in the fog and that you're not entirely sure what it looks like. There had better not be some big 'and this is what really looks like' reveal tonight, or that effect will be ruined.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

Also, it was a bit daft of Jack to go 'by the way, we're declaring a war on you' and not expect the alien to do something back. It's not like you can go 'hey, we're declaring a war on you, can you wait with doing anything until we're ready?'.