Yeah, the TARDIS days are the happy vacation days in Jack's whole life as a soldier, and ended in a war, too. Vacation is great. But if your whole life turns into a never-ending vacation, it's not a very healthy life style...or you should be the Doctor. He's a Time Lord and therefore has his privileges...his job seems to be the same thing as his vacation. How happy/unhappy is that? (Well, I haven't watched any episodes of the old series, so if I said something wrong...please tell me.) So the holiday has to end. So Jack has to relearn how to be on his own, sooner or later. When he's with the Doctor, he lets the Doctor do the worries, do the thinkings. (That's something about other companions, too. In TARDIS world, he/she can let go and be a kid for some time. Part of the reasons why the journey is so happy: it's carefree. Again, knowing nearly nothing about the old Who, I'm only talking about the new series. ) But that's the mindset of a soldier, not of a captain. Jack wants to be a hero, a protector, and heroes do their own worries and thinkings. And yes, the Doctor enjoys fixing things...and has enjoyed fixing Jack. And he has done his job, or at least his part of job. He loves and respects Jack enough to ask Jack to make the hard choice for him('die as a human or live as a Dalek'). And Jack gives him the answer he needs. Then the Doctor fails to follow in. (And we can understand why.) It's a betrayal which hardly has any direct results(though there're some indirect results, like Jack's immortality), because Jack's already dead, and I doubt that Jack knows about the betrayal. But a betrayal as well. (And it's a betrayal which can bring ideological disillusion, while the departure without him can bring emotional disillusion.) And soon the Doctor dies, too. Betrayals, deaths, ashes. Book ends. Glad that Jack'll get a new chapter of the book and will end it on better terms.
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Re: Part 1
Date: 2007-02-28 07:13 pm (UTC)(Well, I haven't watched any episodes of the old series, so if I said something wrong...please tell me.)
So the holiday has to end. So Jack has to relearn how to be on his own, sooner or later. When he's with the Doctor, he lets the Doctor do the worries, do the thinkings. (That's something about other companions, too. In TARDIS world, he/she can let go and be a kid for some time. Part of the reasons why the journey is so happy: it's carefree. Again, knowing nearly nothing about the old Who, I'm only talking about the new series. ) But that's the mindset of a soldier, not of a captain. Jack wants to be a hero, a protector, and heroes do their own worries and thinkings.
And yes, the Doctor enjoys fixing things...and has enjoyed fixing Jack. And he has done his job, or at least his part of job.
He loves and respects Jack enough to ask Jack to make the hard choice for him('die as a human or live as a Dalek'). And Jack gives him the answer he needs. Then the Doctor fails to follow in. (And we can understand why.) It's a betrayal which hardly has any direct results(though there're some indirect results, like Jack's immortality), because Jack's already dead, and I doubt that Jack knows about the betrayal. But a betrayal as well. (And it's a betrayal which can bring ideological disillusion, while the departure without him can bring emotional disillusion.) And soon the Doctor dies, too. Betrayals, deaths, ashes. Book ends.
Glad that Jack'll get a new chapter of the book and will end it on better terms.