Date: 2008-08-14 08:21 pm (UTC)
did you just reply to this, or did LJ just totally fail on the e-mail alert?

[blush] I just replied to it. See, I have a bunch of really fascinating messages that I just totally failed to have time to respond to at the time they were made, so at the risk of confusing people utterly I'm answering now. Or, well, working on it.

I'm still fascinated by the same conversations. Why does life get in the way?

Re Jack as a still point: I would agree with you (because your answer is utterly canonical) but I'd love to find a loophole. It implies, for example, that Nine would have the same reaction to Jack now that Ten has - I have some trouble with that. It also implies that the situation is insoluble, which I don't want to believe. And thirdly, it doesn't answer the question of why the Doctor has a problem with Jack but not with the Face of Boe.

I also think that when Jack called the Doctor on this attitude as a 'prejudice', the Doctor tacitly acknowledged that he was right. A prejudice can be changed, whatever its origins. We have seen the Doctor change his mind before.

Moreover, this explanation doesn't fit my "grand unified theory about Ten and his relationships" which is, of course, a work in progress. It doesn't contradict it either. It's... another aspect for consideration.

As a slash fan who most loves the Jack/Doctor pairing, I have every vested intersted in arguing my way out of this somehow. Which means looking beyond the words... not contradicting them, but building on them.

You know those elements at the end of the periodic table? Those ones that get created, exist for like a second, and then go poof? Those are also more stable than Ten.

Ah. Yes. Valid point.

As for Jack: I guess your Jack is not my Jack. I see him as deeply sane, more than those around him. (Albeit inconsistently written.) "Sane" in not just a medical and psychological sense, but in a deeply spiritual, supernatural and metaphysical sense.

if you accept the Face of Boe thing, then obviously something at some point went right. Maybe it was that.

Maybe. Hmm. You are sparking ideas. Food for thought. Most interesting!

The waste of potential that is Torchwood's take on Captain Jack Harkness really inspires my tl;dr side.

I would agree with that. And I'm probably spending too much time thinking and writing about it for my own sanity, but I don't even care - I'm having too much fun with it.
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