Mini-rant...

[fajrdrako]

I would be really, really happy if I never read another Jack/Ianto fic in which Jack asks Ianto to stop calling him 'sir'.

Please.

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Re: Part 1

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

the TARDIS days are the happy vacation days in Jack's whole life as a soldier, and ended in a war, too.

Jack's bit of the story started in a war (World War II in 1941), ended in a war (the Game Station in the 2001st century). Seems to me that since Jack's life is so full of war, just slightly more metaphorically in Torchwood than in Doctor Who, sex is his way of taking a break from it - making love not war, as best he can.

[The Doctor's] job seems to be the same thing as his vacation. How happy/unhappy is that?

Not so much a job as a lifestyle. Or an identity.

So Jack has to relearn how to be on his own, sooner or later.

Yes. Can't live for just himself - that might be summed up as the lesson he learned from the Doctor. So he has to - well, to save the world. Even when it seems like too much for him.

I haven't watched any episodes of the old series, so if I said something wrong...please tell me.

Many years ago I watched an episode of the old show from the 1960s, was bored, and remember nothing of it. More recently, I saw the 1996 movie with Paul McGann as the 8th Doctor, and was horrified by how stupid it was. Though the performances of Paul McGann and Eric Roberts were good, given their awful script. So I really know nothing about earlier Doctor Who either, and just about anything I say relates only to the New Who.

Jack wants to be a hero, a protector, and heroes do their own worries and thinkings.

Maybe we should think of him as a sort of apprentice hero. He learned the lesson of being a soldier; now he's struggling to become a leader.

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').

One of the things I love about Doctor Who in general and the Doctor/Jack/Rose relationships in particular is the way the Doctor really does respect the intelligence of Jack and Rose, and the way he likes them as people. No condescension, though he does like to tease. But they like to tease him too, so it's okay.

Glad that Jack'll get a new chapter of the book and will end it on better terms.

Yes... Like the second act of a play - perhaps an opera, since it's epic in scope. It's the new post-Torchwood, post-Abaddon Jack, who dresses and acts differently; a Doctor with a new body; and a new Companion. A chance for resolution, I hope, and a new situation.