what would "Bad Wolf" in the Ritz graffiti (In "Captain Jack Harkness") mean? Rose coming back?
My interpretation is that back in series 1, Rose's "Bad Wolf" went through all of space and time, which includes 2007 or 2008 (or whenever the Torchwood characters are now) as much as 2005 or 2006 or the century the game station was in, so that it's permeated all of our universe, and this is just an irrelevant manifestation appearing - especially at a place where the links between past and future are weak because of the rift and because of the meddling of Bilis and Abaddon.
So it isn't a reference to any new manifestation of Rose, but of the manifestation we already saw in "Parting of the Ways", no longer in our future, but chronologically in the future time of the Torchwood characters - not personally but conceptually.
Irrelevant to the plot except as a brief reminder or tie-in to the scenes where Jack last saw Rose and the Doctor. And not incidentally, a reminder to the viewer of the connection between Jack and the Doctor Who storyline, so soon to be picked up again.
By which I mean the ending of "End of Days" came soon enough, but what comes next feels like an eon away.
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Date: 2007-01-07 08:54 pm (UTC)My interpretation is that back in series 1, Rose's "Bad Wolf" went through all of space and time, which includes 2007 or 2008 (or whenever the Torchwood characters are now) as much as 2005 or 2006 or the century the game station was in, so that it's permeated all of our universe, and this is just an irrelevant manifestation appearing - especially at a place where the links between past and future are weak because of the rift and because of the meddling of Bilis and Abaddon.
So it isn't a reference to any new manifestation of Rose, but of the manifestation we already saw in "Parting of the Ways", no longer in our future, but chronologically in the future time of the Torchwood characters - not personally but conceptually.
Irrelevant to the plot except as a brief reminder or tie-in to the scenes where Jack last saw Rose and the Doctor. And not incidentally, a reminder to the viewer of the connection between Jack and the Doctor Who storyline, so soon to be picked up again.
By which I mean the ending of "End of Days" came soon enough, but what comes next feels like an eon away.