G-g-gender switch?
Apr. 8th, 2009 02:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grassangelI read that gender-switch novelisation, Almost Perfect. It is possibly crack squared. Maybe fanfiction squared with the amount of, for lack of a better word, fanservice. This book amuses me on that meta-level so much and I do have to wonder if the author knows about the fandom at all.
(There is a short chapter which is titled ‘Jack is in for a treat when he checks the CCTV’ and starts with Gwen and gender-switched!Ianto waking up from their nap on the sofa together. If that, aside from Gwen’s hair chewing, isn’t fanservice, I don’t know what is.)
Anyway, disappointingly, Ianto is simply body switched with a woman, rather than being changed into one. It also takes half the book to get to WHY he was body switched in the first place.
It has to do with aliens. Gay aliens in fact, although they may just be sexless and chose forms at random. Actually the body switch also seems to involve the aliens’ artifact, which renders stuff perfect.
Also, the aliens responsible are worse than Jack when it comes to… things, which isn’t exactly going to calm those snorfles of laughter but at least won’t make you shake your head when it comes to the oblique references of them and Jack together or the room of bodies.
Ianto gets to save the day though, which is always nice, and gets only one night of body-switched!sex before he returns to normal.
The epilogue is made of awesome by the way, as the alien artifact is pretending to be the Doctor and Jack talks to it and it’s only really good because imagining the dialogue in their voices is hilarious.
There are other bits of fun, like comments about Norwegian sailors, orgies (lots and lots of comments about those) and Gwen wondering if Ianto and Jack actually have sex or just stand naked opposite each other and pout.
Jack comments that he once appeared in a school photo three times and he got a medal and a small fine for doing so. (This amuses me more than it should…)
The team get balloons with which to demonstrate the effects of a rise in static electricity. Ianto gets to keep his though, because he doesn’t want Mickey Mouse to die, which was adorable.
There’s some attention paid to the former members of the team too!
Tosh had ‘the sweetest hobbies’ in relation to building a pheromone sniffer and one of Owen’s hobbies is mentioned too. (Actually, it was his ‘flag everything medical that seems suspicious’ hobby that lead to the entire events of this story.)
Ianto’s bisexuality is highlighted a couple of times, although one time he makes a comment that if he does end up as a woman for the rest of his life, he’d be single. Which doesn’t make that much logic to me, because being with Jack would be more socially acceptable in the long-term as a woman.
His princess-y fussiness is commented upon too, which I don’t quite get because being a bit fussy is perfectly okay. (As long as it’s not whiny and loud.)
And as I’m posting this, I suddenly feel sad that TONIGHT IS THE LAST EPISODE OF SEASON TWO. I know that TVNZ wanted to air the third season right after, but I’m looking at the Wikipedia page and it’s saying the airdate for the UK is June or July.
So yeah, sad that the TV season is ‘finished’ and the story is put on hold, if only for a little while.
(There is a short chapter which is titled ‘Jack is in for a treat when he checks the CCTV’ and starts with Gwen and gender-switched!Ianto waking up from their nap on the sofa together. If that, aside from Gwen’s hair chewing, isn’t fanservice, I don’t know what is.)
Anyway, disappointingly, Ianto is simply body switched with a woman, rather than being changed into one. It also takes half the book to get to WHY he was body switched in the first place.
It has to do with aliens. Gay aliens in fact, although they may just be sexless and chose forms at random. Actually the body switch also seems to involve the aliens’ artifact, which renders stuff perfect.
Also, the aliens responsible are worse than Jack when it comes to… things, which isn’t exactly going to calm those snorfles of laughter but at least won’t make you shake your head when it comes to the oblique references of them and Jack together or the room of bodies.
Ianto gets to save the day though, which is always nice, and gets only one night of body-switched!sex before he returns to normal.
The epilogue is made of awesome by the way, as the alien artifact is pretending to be the Doctor and Jack talks to it and it’s only really good because imagining the dialogue in their voices is hilarious.
There are other bits of fun, like comments about Norwegian sailors, orgies (lots and lots of comments about those) and Gwen wondering if Ianto and Jack actually have sex or just stand naked opposite each other and pout.
Jack comments that he once appeared in a school photo three times and he got a medal and a small fine for doing so. (This amuses me more than it should…)
The team get balloons with which to demonstrate the effects of a rise in static electricity. Ianto gets to keep his though, because he doesn’t want Mickey Mouse to die, which was adorable.
There’s some attention paid to the former members of the team too!
Tosh had ‘the sweetest hobbies’ in relation to building a pheromone sniffer and one of Owen’s hobbies is mentioned too. (Actually, it was his ‘flag everything medical that seems suspicious’ hobby that lead to the entire events of this story.)
Ianto’s bisexuality is highlighted a couple of times, although one time he makes a comment that if he does end up as a woman for the rest of his life, he’d be single. Which doesn’t make that much logic to me, because being with Jack would be more socially acceptable in the long-term as a woman.
His princess-y fussiness is commented upon too, which I don’t quite get because being a bit fussy is perfectly okay. (As long as it’s not whiny and loud.)
And as I’m posting this, I suddenly feel sad that TONIGHT IS THE LAST EPISODE OF SEASON TWO. I know that TVNZ wanted to air the third season right after, but I’m looking at the Wikipedia page and it’s saying the airdate for the UK is June or July.
So yeah, sad that the TV season is ‘finished’ and the story is put on hold, if only for a little while.
