Title: Hidden Identity- Chapter 11/13 + Epilogue
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IantojjackhRating: PG
Summary: Jack and Ianto have returned to Earth and brought the 456 with them. It's just another day in the adventures of Jack and Ianto and the identity of the shadowy figure is revealed.
Characters: Jack Harkness, Alonso Frame, Gwen Cooper, Rhys Williams, Rhiannon Davies, Ianto
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Since I was in the middle of writing this when Capaldi was announced I knew I couldn't ignore the connection because before that I was thinking of taking this as a MD AU but with this I was able to ignore it.
Ha you can never get rid of Gwen that easily.
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I knew that's who the shadowy figure was =)! Great way to figure Twelve in, and explain exactly why that incarnation of the Doctor ends up resembling Frobisher in the first place.
You wrote Jack's and Ianto's interactions with him really well, too- just the right mix of emotions on both their parts- some anger & rage toward him at first, but gradually more calmness, understanding, and respectfulness as he explains himself. I liked the way you wrote him, too (I'd imagine if Twelve does encounter Jack at some point, their interaction may very well unfold in a similar way, depending on what point in Jack's life that meeting occurs, and whether Moffat will decide to acknowledge "Miracle Day" as well as COE.). And YAY that he's going to let Jack and Ianto stay together C=!
When I started posting this I did not realise how perfectly this would time ( ... )
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The timing really was unintentional. This piece was originally supposed to be only 11 chapters w/ the sequel, but it split two chapters up for dramatic effect.
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Great explanation for the Doctor resembling that rat bastard Frobisher. It just figures that the explanation for the Doctor allowing the whole CoE sequence of events to occur is that something WORSE would have happened if he didn't! That vision of UNIT persecuting TW for the "other" time the 456 came was chilling!
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Yes while I think Ten would have been happy to let the 456 do as they pleased, but this one could not let that happen and I have no idea where the idea that 11 would not have existed unless Frobisher changed things. I gotta stay away from the crazy timey whimey stuff.
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wow, Gwen and Rhiannon are truly pissed off and now the appearance of the new Doctor was totally unexpected but you could explain it so convincingly. I still don't like him ....
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Yeah not many people would like Frobisher. It was hard coming up with a plausible connection.
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I wondered if you were going to make it possible for the boys to be the conduit this time since they have the necessary connection with the 456. It sounds even better when you throw in the idea of getting rid of all of them, not just the ones currently orbiting the Earth.
I'm still not sure I'm on board with it being Peter Capaldi playing him, but I guess he deserves the chance to prove me wrong. I don't know if I'll be able to get past seeing him as Frobisher, who I detested.
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I guess he deserves the chance to prove me wrong.
I think you could be pleasantly surprised :]. Uberfan of the show Capaldi is, and how well he knows it (he's watched it from the beginning, e.g. since "An Unearthly Child" in 1963), as well as how much he's always wanted to play the Doctor, I imagine distancing his portrayal of the Doctor from those of Malcolm Tucker in The Thick Of It, Caecilius in "The Fires Of Pompeii", and Frobisher in COE is/was probably ( ... )
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I really, REALLY hated the appalling writing in CoE and the way they made the whole team look stupid and totally incompetent
That, in addition to Ianto being killed off (which was, in itself, a direct result of the team being, as you put it, written as "stupid and totally incompetent") were a couple of the major qualms I had about it too. *Nods again*
Yep, we will :).
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