for there to be at least one member of the team who had a regular life outside that wasn't damaged by working for Torchwood.
Yes indeed. I think that's important to Jack - especially after he saw what happened to Suzie, how her obsession over Torchwood made her into a killer with no sense of proportion. When Gwen later says 'everyone here ends up alone' - I think that's exactly what Jack doesn't want.
Jack has, I think, learned a great deal since he was with the Doctor; he's got baggage to carry from that, too.
Definitely, and in several ways. As I see it, the Doctor gave him a life where he was happy - on the TARDIS - and then snatched it away, leaving him with a strong sense of duty but no sense of understanding.
...Though whether I am symbolically casting the Doctor as Virgilio or God I'm not sure. Maybe both. In any case, I can see Torchwood as Jack's Inferno, an underground place of learning, compassion, fear, loneliness, occasional despair and ultimate hope.
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Date: 2007-02-08 05:54 pm (UTC)Yes indeed. I think that's important to Jack - especially after he saw what happened to Suzie, how her obsession over Torchwood made her into a killer with no sense of proportion. When Gwen later says 'everyone here ends up alone' - I think that's exactly what Jack doesn't want.
Jack has, I think, learned a great deal since he was with the Doctor; he's got baggage to carry from that, too.
Definitely, and in several ways. As I see it, the Doctor gave him a life where he was happy - on the TARDIS - and then snatched it away, leaving him with a strong sense of duty but no sense of understanding.
Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,
ché la diritta via era smarrita.
...Though whether I am symbolically casting the Doctor as Virgilio or God I'm not sure. Maybe both. In any case, I can see Torchwood as Jack's Inferno, an underground place of learning, compassion, fear, loneliness, occasional despair and ultimate hope.