By way of example, the most serious personal conversation they ever have happens when there's a huge safety door between them.
I wasn't so much talking about conversations between Jack and the Doctor, though I think we see more substance in their conversations in the first few minutes of "The Doctor Dances" than we do between Jack and Ianto through all of series 1 Torchwood.
But no, I was talking about attitude. "Utopia" and "The Sound of Drums" are a good examples - eveything Jack is talking about he treats lightly enough, but it's all of hte utmost importance to him and he still shows it - "Why did you abandon me on the Game Station? Is that prejudice? I rebuild Torchwood in your honour." Everything Jack says to the Doctor is honest (since "The Empty Child") and he listens carefully to everything the Doctor says, and never forgets it. It may sound like light banter and mutual teasing in "Boom Town", and it is, but I think it all goes soul-deep.
The door of the radiation chamber in "Utopia" is no doubt a barrier, because the Doctor at that point needs a barrier with Jack. Jack is doing his best to tear down the barriers, and prove himself. How? Well, he teases the Doctor about the situation, flirts with everyone in sight, and when faced with personal danger, starts to take his clothes off.
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Date: 2008-02-01 05:31 pm (UTC)I wasn't so much talking about conversations between Jack and the Doctor, though I think we see more substance in their conversations in the first few minutes of "The Doctor Dances" than we do between Jack and Ianto through all of series 1 Torchwood.
But no, I was talking about attitude. "Utopia" and "The Sound of Drums" are a good examples - eveything Jack is talking about he treats lightly enough, but it's all of hte utmost importance to him and he still shows it - "Why did you abandon me on the Game Station? Is that prejudice? I rebuild Torchwood in your honour." Everything Jack says to the Doctor is honest (since "The Empty Child") and he listens carefully to everything the Doctor says, and never forgets it. It may sound like light banter and mutual teasing in "Boom Town", and it is, but I think it all goes soul-deep.
The door of the radiation chamber in "Utopia" is no doubt a barrier, because the Doctor at that point needs a barrier with Jack. Jack is doing his best to tear down the barriers, and prove himself. How? Well, he teases the Doctor about the situation, flirts with everyone in sight, and when faced with personal danger, starts to take his clothes off.
Works for me.