Torchwood 5 (No Spoilers)

[gaspode]

A Cracker ...

This was more like it - Even better than Ghost Machine ...

More like this please (and next weeks looks promising too) ...

Mind you as soon as I found out this was a P J Hammond ep I had high hopes and wasn't disapointed (for those that don't know PJH was original writer of Saphire and Steel).

Less pratting about with skimply clad cyber babes and homo erotic subtext and more serious horror fantasy please.

You know, as an aside, I'm begining to think Rose didn't revive Jack in PotW .. I'm starting to have a feeling he was already immortal ... Hopefully some more back story will be forth coming ...

Well done torchwood - Your first 5 out of 5 of the season.

Comments

[elfinessy.livejournal.com]

I like the homo erotic subtext...!

It's an interesting point that you make about PotW though....

[gaspodex.livejournal.com]

lol - yes - I know you do :)

It has its place but doesnt need to take over the whole story ...

ANyway a great episode ...

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Maybe he started in the 51st Century (as he claims in Empty Child / The Doctor Dances); came back in time to the start of the Second World war; went forward with the Doctor and Rose; died and got brought back to life by Rose; waited around for a bit until he found another time travel machine; went back to the Middle Ages; and founded the MacLeish line in Scotland.

And then has been wandering around ever since, thus being in the same timeline twice, for a while...

[gaspodex.livejournal.com]

I'm still not sure ... I wouldn't put it past RTD to have thrown a curve ball their .... It was never explicitly said that Rose brought him back...

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Jus' sayin'. That's all. I can't actually bring myself to care enough to guess the back plot.

[multiclassgeek.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure... Best as I can tell, Jack has Hyper-Advanced Cellular Regeneration - Not immortality, exactly, just an off-the-charts-powerful Healing Factor (which also serves to keep him looking young).

Thus, he could recover from any injury, but an instant-death ray, like the Daleks have, would bypass the regeneration, killing him instantly (example: War Trolls in D&D only take Lethal Damage from acid, and they can regenerate damage from anything else - But if one fails its save against a Death Effect, it's still going to die).

The implication is, of course, that whatever happened to him occured during the 'missing months' that Jack alludes to in The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances. The fact that he didn't tell The Ninth and Rose about it fits with his unwillingnes to tell anybody about it, not even the other Torchwood employees (he'd not have told Gwen if she hadn't seen it happen so clearly)

Also, since The Doctor hasn't seen Captain Jack since the stand-off aboard Satellite Five, Jack couldn't know that he was raised by the power of the Phoenix Force Time Vortex; thus, when he came back after being killed by the Daleks, he merely attributed it to his own immortality.

I still think that, during his Missing Months, he was up to no good on the planet Zeist, and got on the wrong end of their Exiling Process as a result. If Sean Connery turns up pretending to be a Conquistador, then we'll know for sure...