Ianto jobs

[beccaelizabeth]

Receptionist
Driving
Cleaning (including computers and corpses)
Looks good in a suit
Food
Coffee
Intelligence analysis (always turns up with the useful data)
Secure archives

base security?

he's the one that stays behind and looks after things

and it would explain why it were easy to hide stuff, if it's his job to see to what gets in there.


(as pointed out in passing in a post I otherwise entirely disagree with, Jack did ask Ianto to reverse the lockdown in 1-08, not any of the others)


Tosh jobs include translation programs, computers, and enough forensics or medecine to be useful around corpses and at the hospital. Maybe more lab equipment than actual people, that would group her skills closer together. Only Owen qualified to work on the living.

Owen = medicine doctor, and don't he let people know it. Anyone leaves off his title he adds it.

Tosh is also entitled, but don't do that.

Gwen = police, mostly walking around, bit of victim support according to the website.

Jack is the boss of everyone. Also knows more alien tech than the rest. And can pilot a spaceship. And knows the future a bit. And knows too much history, mostly when mentioning WWII.


Gwen and Owen have fairly narrow focus and well defined skills, Tosh and Ianto are a bit more generalist but in different ways, and Jack knows everything as convenient (Greek mythology? Because that comes up so often! Mind you, educated white guy for the last few thousand years has a certain expected cultural base. Can see it being useful to know, and also being available to read when the reading was skinny.) Or possibly Jack's clever wrist computer does and tells his head. You never know.

Comments

[ryttu3k.livejournal.com]

With Jack having all this general knowledge, if you go by the most common theory, he has been taking the slow path for QUITE a while. Adding in the possibility that he could have a very good, if not eidetic memory (think about everything he's experienced!), he COULD have just flicked through a book on Greek mythology one day while bored and remembered the details.

I only have semi-eidetic memory, but I can still almost perfectly recall books I've read once five years ago.

(Having eidetic memory would make the two years of missing memory VERY ironic!)

Another alternative could be that he's just interested in Greek (and Roman, remember the password? Although it's Rhea Silvia, and not Rhea Silva) mythology in general.

Or it's the wrist computer. *nods*

[beccaelizabeth]

Very good memory I'll believe.
Interest in mythology could be an interesting reaction to immortality - there's a lot of immortals back in the gods-shagging-everyone days.


Jack taking the slow path actually I'm not so sure on. Lacking data. Could be, could be elsewise.
I think partly it's that I reckon people underestimate the degree of change that could/should occur over very long times. Methos strikes me as the most realistic Immortal simply because if you lined all his lives up next to each other you'd never recognise him as the same man. Time can change a lot.
But on TV it very rarely does, so *shrugs*.

[ryttu3k.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Yeah, that would be interesting... interesting data source.

And hmm... I personally reckon he did, but we'll wait until it's confirmed or denied on either DW or TW.

[damalan.livejournal.com]

In fairness to Gwen, I think a part of her role is that of trained investigator. While she wasn't serving in CID (i.e. as a detective) she has had the basic police training, and she seems something a natural in the job (surprise!); she knows what questions to ask, and how to ask them. In that regard she is quite different to the others, who seem to reply more on their technology to investigate. It would be interesting if her empathy was developed so that she could become an effective psychological profiler (in time maybe even xenopsych.)

Of course, when it comes to running Torchwood 3, Ianto carries them all! :) He has the unglamorous but essential job of making sure everyone else has what they need to do their own job. I think only Jack knows just how much Ianto does - they often seem to be the only people around a goodly amount of the time. Having been in that role, I know just how dull and important Ianto's job is - maybe one of the reasons I can empathise with him.

Of course he's much more than that, as he tells Owen. But again no-one else but jack really sees that either. I just hope that the Torchwood institute pays him well!

[beccaelizabeth]

*nods*
though xenopsych would require applying empathy to non-humans, and as it is she's equating caring with humanity and being a bit Torchwood about non-humans, far as I can see.

and *nods* essential

and also *nods* pay well
Though as a plot bunny... there's an extreme and somewhat implausible possibility where Torchwood 3 was, basically, a con Jack was running, and with him gone the plates stop spinning and little things like money start going away. That would be kind of amusing to watch the team deal with. Make it real again between them.

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

Ianto is also good at some seemingly random things, like using the water thing as a cell-phone antenna, adding things up mentally, and having the sense to use the GPS to find the van. I consider this to be sort of overall practical smartness.

Unrelated wondering: how much medical stuff can Owen handle at the Hub, and at what point do they have to take someone to the hospital?

[beccaelizabeth]

*nods*
He basically reminds me of geeks I RPG with. Only as far as I know he doesn't build submarines in his spare time.
... and the local geeks are mostly less cute.


They had to take Owen to hospital after the weevil thing but there's a fairly obvious reason for that.
Though he did manage to doctor himself after the getting shot.

It is still deeply amusing that nobody seemed particularly annoyed about the shooting thing.

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

I have to laugh whenever I think of that.

You know what - it occurs to me that the stopwatch thing? Incredibly awkward geek flirting. Because the whole episode, we've got all this drama, dead Suzie back, Gwen on the way to dying, etc, and he pays attention to that stopwatch and its buttons the whole time.

[beccaelizabeth]

yes! such a geek-flirt. for it involves technology. in fact tech that Jack threw to him earlier, so Jack-tech, that he has been allowed to play with. and it's so incredibly sideways he could poker face and deny all knowledge if it didn't work.

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

Didn't Jack on Who say that he'd ran a con or two in Pompeii? It would make sense that he'd pick up a bit of Greek and Roman mythology there.

Plus, Philoctetes is partly out of the Iliad - and Jack is rather tied to warfare, so it would make a little sense that he would know bits of that.

[beccaelizabeth]

point. there, knowing would be like knowing Eastenders, common cultural currency. Not that I actually know Eastenders, or any other soap, hence the noticing how common it is.

what stories a society tells it's soldiers would be interesting of itself. but yeah, those ones have stayed common for quite a while now.