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Some thoughts and A THEORY on The Stolen Earth, Torchwoodwise.

• Jack's a bit of a dick again, isn't he? We know his transporter thingy works on more than one person, and he knew that Torchwood were next on the Dalek's shit list, so why on earth he has to do this selfish "I'm with the Doctor" thing is beyond me. Way to leave your team in peril, immortal guy. (ETA: YES, I KNOW Gwen and Ianto didn't tell him, I also know he's not an idiot, he KNOWS that they are coming, rather soonish, and he's buggering off and taking the only effective gun, so I stand by my assertion: WAY TO GO, DUDE. And I'm focussing specifically on TW in this post, but, yes, the same goes for Sarah Jane leaving Luke. Russell thinks the Doctor's RLY great, which is fine, but the Doctor>Everyone else thing is something he chooses to express in kind of weird ways sometimes, ways that tend to reflect badly on the people involved, all the way back to Rose not wanting to work in a shop.)


• This dashing superhero thing that Jack does in Who doesn't work so well for me when the rest of the team are involved. Especially with regards to Jack/Ianto, I feel it very much shoehorns Ianto into the role of the longsuffering wife and it doesn't sit quite right with me.


• THE THEORY: Dalek Caan's "Everlasting death for the most faithful companion." Surely this means Jack, not Donna. Now, before you go saying that Jack could hardly be classed as "the most faithful companion", to be fair to him, he did search for the Doctor and bide his time for a century, and comes running every time the man so much as whistles at him. He's not exactly the most unfaithful companion, either. And "everlasting death", it's a bit much, isn't it? I mean, death is death, unless it's not, in which case you'd need to quantify it a bit more with the quantifier "everlasting". I don't think Jack'll die, but I think he will cease being immortal. He gets everlasting death. Not necessarily right now, but that's what he gets, when he dies, it'll be everlasting. The reason I think this is so obviously true, aside from the wording, is I really think they've gone as far as they can go with Jack's immortality schtick. There aren't really that many more stories to tell about a guy who can't die. The getting shot/stabbed/thrown off buildings and standing up again thing's been done, the using the immortality as a punishment, like Gray did, has been done, and really what more is there to do? Jack's going to become unimmortal, mark my words. (And yes, obviously, this classes the Face of Boe stuff as rubbish, but I think the Face of Boe stuff IS rubbish, so it doesn't really bother me.)