Torchwood: Captain Jack's perspective...

[fajrdrako]

I generally forget to look at the BBCA Captain's Blog, but I saw they'd updated and finally got around to reading it. Haven't finished all of it yet. Enjoyed some good lines from Captain Jack:

Re "Adam": "I never get flowers. I’m considering sending myself some, and pretending I don’t know who they’re from."

Re "Meat": We find out what Jack did to the villains: "We dosed up the men with amnesia pills, and dumped them somewhere out of the way. The others worried that this wasn’t enough of a punishment. I didn’t tell them exactly how many pills I gave the crooks - you want punishment, try going through puberty again, as an adult."

And: "Ah, security. We laugh at the word."

And: "Ianto turned into a fighting, kicking, stun-gun machine, it was very exciting. I must get put in danger more often." Yes, Jack, I liked that, too.

From "To the Last Man": "Alien activity: Thankfully, none. Must be an alien public holiday."

From "Sleeper": "Gwen taken hostage again. I’m beginning to think she’s jinxed. And why am I never taken hostage? I could be a good hostage. I never get any of that Stockholm Syndrome action. And according to Ianto, my bad cop routine needs some work."

From "Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang", Jack's description of Captain John: "He came through the Rift, still as sociopathic as ever. And tried to kill us all. But come on, check out those cheekbones."

And: " Had to spend the day avoiding ourselves, so I sprang for a five-star hotel and we had every spa treatment in the book, including some I made up."

Does anyone know the history of this Blog? Who conceived it and writes it?

Comments

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

The blog is absolutely pitch perfect - I hope whoever's writing it is getting paid enough. I've suggested it should be compulsory reading for all fanfic writers - this is how it's done! One of my favourite ones is actually from the 'Sleeper' entry, where he says that he let "some of the old Jack" through. It's so good to have them keep the darkness with the humour, and the sadness along with the levity, because that's just so Jack.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I've suggested it should be compulsory reading for all fanfic writers - this is how it's done!

Yes. The tone is just right. I was thinking the same thing - "too bad more fanfic writers don't get Jack's character quite this acutely." It isn't even always what he says, sometimes it's what he doesn't say - the way he lies obfuscates the truth for the record. But still lets his joie de vivre (and sometimes his despair) creep in.