I don't think it is necessarily 'Moonlighting Syndrome' because Jack and Ianto clicked for me the first time he was introduced and still do it for me as 'OMG!Hot' ;-) But I am, for the most part, a very canon based slasher (in so much as that isn't a contradiction in terms). Since normally all I get is UST, when a pairing clicks for me I am used to it having 'sparks' and often having risk attached. (It is also worth noting that a lot of the pairings I like have a bit of an edge to them and most of them I wouldn't want to become canon). Jack and Ianto, however, are pretty much canon and we get to see the way they are around each other and it is... different. I've been trying to work out how put put it and it just came to me... most of my other pairings the relationship is easy (and canon) but the sex is difficult, Jack and Ianto the sex is easy but the relationship is difficult. And it is the difficult which intregues me.
Happy ever after endings are great for fic because they are fairly short - they are crap for serieses, I think it is often the same with relationships unless they are well written. I think part of the problem when the UST pairing becomes canon is the is all becomes to easy (which isn't as interesting) or the writers don't go the way you think it should which is always a problem *eg*. There are a few couples (although Joss is doing his bit to make them rarer) that I dearly love but in almost all the cases the relationship is solid and shown in low key little things rather than being a focus.
Sorry - didn't intend for my response to be that long and waffly.
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Date: 2007-01-08 10:04 pm (UTC)From:Happy ever after endings are great for fic because they are fairly short - they are crap for serieses, I think it is often the same with relationships unless they are well written. I think part of the problem when the UST pairing becomes canon is the is all becomes to easy (which isn't as interesting) or the writers don't go the way you think it should which is always a problem *eg*. There are a few couples (although Joss is doing his bit to make them rarer) that I dearly love but in almost all the cases the relationship is solid and shown in low key little things rather than being a focus.
Sorry - didn't intend for my response to be that long and waffly.