Jack is such a hero these days it's hard to remember that it is really all a con.
It's a fabrication. I don't think it's a "con" in that his purposes are not self-serving - and are, in fact, exactly what he says they are. I think it's true that "the 21st century is where it all changes" and Jack is trying to prepare the world, or perhaps to stave off disaster as long as the world is still unprepared.
His purposes are heroic. And to a large extent he's not lying about who he is any more - he uses a name not his own, granted, but he hasn't made up an elaborate cover story, he just lets himself be the mystery leader of Torchwood. Which he is. He talks - at least to his team - fairly casually about meeting aliens, having sex with aliens, knowing what will happen, knowing things no one else on earth knows... having been pregnant. What they make of it is unclear. Presumably they all think Jack is full of it, but he amuses them.
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Date: 2007-07-21 02:45 pm (UTC)It's a fabrication. I don't think it's a "con" in that his purposes are not self-serving - and are, in fact, exactly what he says they are. I think it's true that "the 21st century is where it all changes" and Jack is trying to prepare the world, or perhaps to stave off disaster as long as the world is still unprepared.
His purposes are heroic. And to a large extent he's not lying about who he is any more - he uses a name not his own, granted, but he hasn't made up an elaborate cover story, he just lets himself be the mystery leader of Torchwood. Which he is. He talks - at least to his team - fairly casually about meeting aliens,
having sex with aliens, knowing what will happen, knowing things no one else on earth knows... having been pregnant. What they make of it is unclear. Presumably they all think Jack is full of it, but he amuses them.