I'm too heavily influenced to remember it right, by fanfics in which Time Agency is a deeply corrupted organization.
It's easy to read that into it but I don't think we have any canonical information either way. I'm trying not to make assumptions. Obviously Jack has a grudge - they took his memories - and he fears he did terrible things, but he doesn't know. And he takes people's memories too.
they wipe people's memory for their reason(which can be good or bad)
Our old friend, ambiguity.
Don't know why in the new DW/TW universe, every time the word 'professional' emerges in my mind, the first thing I can think of is always the poor Torchwood London...now in my mind 'professional' equals 'arrogant'.
In terms of both these shows, I think that's a fair statement. We seem to usually be siding with the free-lancers. I like the moment when (in "Day One") they refer to the army as 'amateurs'.
Poor guy...waiting really isn't his kind of thing.
So true! He's an action-oriented type. And here he has to wait.
Jack might be lying about himself in 'Countrycide'. I haven't thought of this before!
It seems the likeliest explanation to me, given is usually-compassionate character, his general level of sanity, his tendency to try solutions other than violence and to view violence as a last resort, and his con-man ways. If he can scare the man into talking, he'll do it - with words. And he can be convincing. Words are among his arsenal of weapons.
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Re: and other heroes
Date: 2007-03-01 04:10 am (UTC)It's easy to read that into it but I don't think we have any canonical information either way. I'm trying not to make assumptions. Obviously Jack has a grudge - they took his memories - and he fears he did terrible things, but he doesn't know. And he takes people's memories too.
they wipe people's memory for their reason(which can be good or bad)
Our old friend, ambiguity.
Don't know why in the new DW/TW universe, every time the word 'professional' emerges in my mind, the first thing I can think of is always the poor Torchwood London...now in my mind 'professional' equals 'arrogant'.
In terms of both these shows, I think that's a fair statement. We seem to usually be siding with the free-lancers. I like the moment when (in "Day One") they refer to the army as 'amateurs'.
Poor guy...waiting really isn't his kind of thing.
So true! He's an action-oriented type. And here he has to wait.
Jack might be lying about himself in 'Countrycide'. I haven't thought of this before!
It seems the likeliest explanation to me, given is usually-compassionate character, his general level of sanity, his tendency to try solutions other than violence and to view violence as a last resort, and his con-man ways. If he can scare the man into talking, he'll do it - with words. And he can be convincing. Words are among his arsenal of weapons.