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Apr. 30th, 2013 02:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fajrdrakoAn article about Captain Jack Harkness: Captain Jack And River Song Met, Decided They Want A 'Doctor Who' Spinoff. Well, of course they do.
I'd like it too, if only because it's not likely to be the dirge to morosity that Torchwood Miracle Day was. And since the loss of Elisabeth Sladen and The Sarah Jane Adventures, there's a gap to be filled.
Now, I was never, and am not, a big fan of River Song, partly because I saw her as playing the role in Doctor Who that Captain Jack ought to have been playing. Replacing him, in other words. What did she do that he couldn't do better? Nothing that I could see.
Putting them together -- well! It would be like two peas in a pod, but why not? They'd be fun. They'd be loads of fun.
Bring it on.
As for the rest of the article: I don't want to know the Doctor's name, and I'm hoping that episode won't tell us, despite its name. And: why is Captain Jack being left out of the Doctor Who special? I had thought that since Steven Moffat was the first writer to write Captain Jack, that he'd want to include him. Perhaps he sees him as a Russell T Davies creation, and doesn't like the character.
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Date: 2013-04-30 10:02 pm (UTC)I'm still baffled as to why Moff won't have Jack in the 50th anniversary show (as thrilled as I am that Ten and Rose will be back). Yeah, maybe he sees him as more of an RTD creation? JB said in a few interviews that he thinks TPTB want to appeal more to new viewers and not lay on the old characters too thick.
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Date: 2013-04-30 10:11 pm (UTC)Wouldn't that have been great?
I think it's really a shame that we haven't had another Captain Jack story in Doctor Who.
As for characters I'd like to see him with: River Song would be great, as would Ianto, or Rose, or Amy and Rory, or Gwen, or Martha, or Donna... How I would love any of that!