Oh yeah. Forgot about that bit. It was really nicely done though how at first Martha would tell the Doctor about the logical reasons for her leaving, and then re-do the whole thing with her true feelings. It was a really nice bit of writing there.
I just find it squicky. and impossible. I mean how does Jack end up as a big face with tentacle things that lives on smoke in a Jar?? I know DW can be crazy, but that's just... I don't know what that is. I do know that I don't like it. In a fanwanky kinda way I'd prefer to believe Jack was just joshing the Doctor and Martha, cos he would do that.
Since we're told that the story of the Face of Boe is not at all concluded, I would say that just because something is not clear it's not a mistake. I would even go so far as to compare this to the fan backlash before the last two episodes, a.k.a. the "Why didn't the Doctor sense the Master, gah, continuity error" bit. And we got a clear-cut answer. Besides, why couldn't Jack end up like that. The first we saw the Face of Boe on television was in The Long Game and there it was the year 200,000. Now if the Doctor, if aged 900 years, would look perfectly different, why couldn't Jack become something like that in 198,000 years. I do not think this is a mistake, I think it is, like so many other stuff, something that wasn't revealed yet.
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that makes so much more sense now. RTD, you make me sad.
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Besides, why couldn't Jack end up like that. The first we saw the Face of Boe on television was in The Long Game and there it was the year 200,000. Now if the Doctor, if aged 900 years, would look perfectly different, why couldn't Jack become something like that in 198,000 years. I do not think this is a mistake, I think it is, like so many other stuff, something that wasn't revealed yet.
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