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Nu Who Meta: Jack's "wrong"-ness as a fixed point in time

Aug 20, 2012 08:50

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10th doctor, episode: bad wolf/parting of the ways, nu who, episode: utopia/sound of drums/last of t, jack harkness

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fannishliss August 21 2012, 01:06:55 UTC

In my head canon, Jack came out of the Bad Wolf experience kind of the opposite of Rose.... Whereas Bad Wolf has been all across the Doctor's life back in the past and into the future, Jack has been removed completely from the flow of time (which I guess is why he's called a fixed point -- though that doesn't make any sense per se!) And if he's no longer a thing within temporality I would think that it would be very disagreeable to a Time Lord, who perceives temportally, to live with him. I think that it would be easier in short doses ( ... )

nostalgia_lj August 21 2012, 03:26:03 UTC

I like to think that once the Doctor got over his revulsion he started to see the fixed-point thing as kinky.

But then I'm convinced that he gets turned on by clocks being at the wrong time, so...

goodly_sin August 21 2012, 10:15:26 UTC

I have a slightly different take on this which I freely admit is Entirely Made Up In My Head. But what struck me most when the Doctor re-encountered Jack is that, for the first time since the Time War, here was someone he cared about deeply who would live as long as he would - perhaps even longer. The Doctor could have taken Jack as his companion and they could have travelled together for many, many centuries - something he's never been able to do with someone he loved (except maybe Romana?) For once, he didn't have the excuse of 'you'll grow old and die' to avoid commitment, and it scared the living daylights out of him. So he made up this gubbins about Jack being 'wrong' (which made so little sense to me when I first watched it that I just assumed we were meant to think Ten was lying ( ... )