This really goes with Maggot and Apple Towns and probably with Feature Film Starring, which only shows much space films and story telling and imagination take in my Ianto stories. It's one of the central ideas I have of his character probably, and along with "London" and "Lisa", it's become something to appear and reappear because it's a very flexible image/idea. Glad it works like this, and, really. Sure, this is also in some way commentary on CoE, mostly in terms of scripted deaths and Ianto wanting people to be heroes and wanting them to die as heroes rather than as nameless and faceless victims, which could be read as crit of CoE, but really it says that even for Ianto, people only die as heroes in scripts, in movies, in fiction (which is why Ianto not dying saving the world worked so much better for me than any hero cliché would have). But it's a rather flexible story, it could be employed to support both reasonings, I suppose.