I think he's pretending to be American because he's working everywhere-except-America; being a bit foreign wherever you go is an inevitable side effect of time travel
That's a very interesting observation I hadn't thought of. I had thought that he probably pretended to be American because he was taking Captain Jack's identity and could do the accent; your reasoning is plausible. (It doesn't mean Americans are oblivious, just that non-Americans think they will be.)
I was also playing with the idea that he was originally born within two hundred years of our own time - past or future - a time when the U.S.A. exists and so he actually could be American, but was taken up by aliens or time travellers to the 51st century.
Another possibility is that he came from one of those pseudo-American planets we see so often in Doctor Who or Star Trek, like New-to-the-power-of-fifteen New York.
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Re: PS on being American
Date: 2007-04-23 10:00 pm (UTC)That's a very interesting observation I hadn't thought of. I had thought that he probably pretended to be American because he was taking Captain Jack's identity and could do the accent; your reasoning is plausible. (It doesn't mean Americans are oblivious, just that non-Americans think they will be.)
I was also playing with the idea that he was originally born within two hundred years of our own time - past or future - a time when the U.S.A. exists and so he actually could be American, but was taken up by aliens or time travellers to the 51st century.
Another possibility is that he came from one of those pseudo-American planets we see so often in Doctor Who or Star Trek, like New-to-the-power-of-fifteen New York.