TW Fic: Intersecting Geodesics (2/5)

[nancybrown]

Title: Intersecting Geodesics (2/5)

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[eumelia]

The future is a harsh place.
Like the present.

I always consider Jack a kind of utopian character, because of the way he's characterised in regarding gender and sexuality.

It occurs to me, that it could simply be age and experience. That the things that bother us (in the social way) are not the things that bother the future.

This is great sci-fi, it's not technology based, but you paint a future that is very plausible, especially in the harsh Torchwood Version of the Whoniverse.

[nancybrown]

I always consider Jack a kind of utopian character, because of the way he's characterised in regarding gender and sexuality.

I suspect that's why people liked him so much upon his introduction in DW; I know that was part of why I liked him. :) But I think he's as much the product of his own choices as he is of his circumstances, otherwise he'd be just like John.

Hope you enjoy the rest of the story!

[eumelia]

I am enjoying it!

I don't actually think Jack is a particularly good person, but then neither is Ianto, or Owen, or Gwen (Tosh very well could be the exception), that doesn't contradict his Utopian nature... I think we all want the future to be better when it comes to our identities being cherished.
I think John is pretty Utopian in that manner as well.

[nancybrown]

I think we all want the future to be better when it comes to our identities being cherished.

There is that. :D

[elainasaunt]

Some things I loved;

"Look, women do this all the time. Dressing a bit nicer, smiling a bit more. It's how you survive."

Tweedledee (not her real name)

Jack had killed the one monster Ianto never could, and he'd been grateful to finally repay that gift.

The whole thing with the Face of Boe.

*goes immediately on to Chapter 3!*

[nancybrown]

*glee* I'm so glad you're enjoying it!

[observer3]

Oh this is just a wicked little story...love how Ianto handles John H

[nancybrown]

Thanks! Hope you like the rest!

[definehome]

I love that you've got Jack as a bit of a bastard, I mean I know he's a bit of a bastard, but he's often written as almost omniscient, but he's still practical.

[nancybrown]

I love that Jack is flawed, and early Jack was More Flawed. :D

[definehome]

I feel like that's a mark of a good author. To make a character likeable and still flawed. Because it's a little hard to do, to make them engaging and imperfect at the same time, but that's what makes a fic truely interesting.

[rootesie]

I love this young Jack too, who seems to be just a product of his society and his own grief over his brother. The fact that he's using Ianto is counterbalanced by the fact that he's saving him, and, by the looks of it, protecting him from John. Yes, he's flawed, but that just makes him that much more interesting.

John seems totally in character as well. This future is a harsh place, but credible. I'm loving this story so much!

[nancybrown]

:) Our Jack just has so many levels, and he had a lot of them already when we met him. I'm glad these have come across as realistic.