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"You know, I never liked camping."

Oh, I loved that little Lisa reference. I'm not entirely sure whether or not the writers intentionally made Ianto's moving on so nicely gradual, but if you read between the lines that's what you get. In Cyberwoman, there were flashes early on the ep that Ianto was actually aware that things were wrong and that (maybe) the cyberwoman wasn't actually his Lisa. I thought it a bittersweet nod that he was making himself let go of his old dreams. Firstly the one of there being a cure for what happened to her. And then, by Countrycide, making himself acknowledge that - even if he loved her - life with Lisa was not 100% idyllic and he shouldn't remember it that way.

And then Countrycide also forced him to accept that he truly preferred to live, even without Lisa, than to give up and die. Which then left him in a nicely depressive state of knowing he will make himself move on and keep living, but not yet sure exactly what he's living for. (Cue emo!tummy!rats, as overheard by Tosh in the next ep.)

Ah Ianto. He does suffer so prettily *nods*