Despite your excellent and very sensible advice, I, um, caved and bought both TW seasons anyway. *facepalm* Well, I blame Amazon completely - they shouldn't be offering boxsets at one-third of the price the average Belgian DVD store does, now, should they? *shakes fist at Amazon*
Guess I'll see how it goes - while I'm usually capable of tolerating bad plot (up to a certain point) if the characterization appeals to me enough, the opposite isn't often the case, so what you said does worry me a little. Is s1 the reason why Gwen seems to be so despised by a not-so-small share of the TW fans? (Or is it just that she interferes with the Jack/Ianto and naturally this is eeeeeeevil of her ;) )