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Feb. 4th, 2007 06:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethThe problem with thinking of Torchwood, or any team of grownups, in family-comparison terms, is it all ends up looking kind of icky when they date. So they aren't family. They're grown non related individuals who can shag with no major taboos in the way.
That said.
Jack is the patriarch in charge, with a weird mix of old school authority and newer flexibility.
Ianto is the mommy. He brings the food and tidies up after everyone and drives people toschool where they need to go in the big soccer mom car SUV and he's invisible until he does something unexpected and everyone thinks he generally Doesn't Do That, except really he does.
He may also be the baby. I read someone mentioning the napkin, and the being the youngest.
The contradiction reminds me of Nora in A Doll's House in ways that make me *facepalm* and wish my brain had more tracks.
Owen is the bolshy teenager who throws his weight around like he should be the boss now but is actually shit scared of winning.
Tosh is the dutiful daughter, doing what is expected of her.
Gwen is... new. Outsider. Why she brings a new perspective to all of it.
and mostly I say this to make me giggle.
and because Ianto needs a hug and is the woobie but he does all these stereotype-housewife jobs too as well as the running around and shooting parts so he isn't a baby or even the baby.
He may be the stepmother that the teenagers don't respect. Maybe the mid-life crisis trophy wife.
... you know, if you want to be really cracky and AU about it and have the same sense of humour as me ...
That said.
Jack is the patriarch in charge, with a weird mix of old school authority and newer flexibility.
Ianto is the mommy. He brings the food and tidies up after everyone and drives people to
He may also be the baby. I read someone mentioning the napkin, and the being the youngest.
The contradiction reminds me of Nora in A Doll's House in ways that make me *facepalm* and wish my brain had more tracks.
Owen is the bolshy teenager who throws his weight around like he should be the boss now but is actually shit scared of winning.
Tosh is the dutiful daughter, doing what is expected of her.
Gwen is... new. Outsider. Why she brings a new perspective to all of it.
and mostly I say this to make me giggle.
and because Ianto needs a hug and is the woobie but he does all these stereotype-housewife jobs too as well as the running around and shooting parts so he isn't a baby or even the baby.
He may be the stepmother that the teenagers don't respect. Maybe the mid-life crisis trophy wife.
... you know, if you want to be really cracky and AU about it and have the same sense of humour as me ...