Very satisfying ending. I like how Ianto knew who it was once he looked up the information, and that he'd been looking at the photo album before hand. In a way, they did the poor woman a favor-she can finally rest. Though I doubt that's much comfort to him. His musing about how it wasn't fair for him to have to watch someone who died four years before he was even born die sort of pushes home how terribly young he is. He's been through so much in his short life, I think we sometimes forget he's still at an age when death is something you'd just as soon not think about. Whereas Jack's lived so long and seen so much death, he's accepted it as a part of life (which makes it even more poignant that he can't die himself).
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Date: 10 Sep 2008 01:18 (UTC)Very satisfying ending. I like how Ianto knew who it was once he looked up the information, and that he'd been looking at the photo album before hand. In a way, they did the poor woman a favor-she can finally rest. Though I doubt that's much comfort to him. His musing about how it wasn't fair for him to have to watch someone who died four years before he was even born die sort of pushes home how terribly young he is. He's been through so much in his short life, I think we sometimes forget he's still at an age when death is something you'd just as soon not think about. Whereas Jack's lived so long and seen so much death, he's accepted it as a part of life (which makes it even more poignant that he can't die himself).