On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:22:13 GMT, jayembee
<jayembeenospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>George W Harris <gharrus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> Back in the episode where they went back in time to WW2, the
>> established that Captain Jack Harkness was an American flyer
>> whose identity Jack assumed after he was killed, but in this
>> week's episode on BBCA, he was using that name back in the
>> late 1800s.
>
>He was using it even (subjectively) before then. The thing you
>have to remember is that he was in the 1800s *after* he'd been
>having his adventures with The Doctor and Rose in the future,
>where he'd already been using the Captain Jack Harkness alias.
>
>There have been at least four different "versions" of Captain
>Jack living in the early 1940s virtually simultaneously. In
>the order that Jack subjectively experienced them, they are:
>
>(1) His introduction in the DOCTOR WHO episode "The Empty Child",
>where he was in London during the Blitz, looking for the alleged
>Chula war****p. He was already calling himself Captain Jack
>Harkness at this point.
>
>(2) After he was made immortal by Rose's manipulation of the Time
>Vortex, he used his wrist device to travel back to find The Doctor
>and Rose, only he overshot and ended up in the late 1800s, at
>which point he lived through the entirety of the 20th Century.
>
>(3) When he and Tosh were trans****ted by the Rift back to 1941
>Cardiff.
>
>(4) When he was buried alive on the future site of Cardiff in
>27 A.D., was dug up by the Victorian Torchwood, and frozen until
>2008.
>
>Since he was using the Captain Jack Harkness alias right from
>the moment we first met him, we have to assume that he had
>been to the 1940s prior to event (1) above, where he learned
>about the original Jack Harkness and assumed his identity. Or
>that he came across information about the original Harkness
>while doing research in his capacity as a Time Agent.
Maybe the "real" Jack was named after him, or even descended from him
(during iteration 2).
Jerry Brown
--
A cat may look at a king
(but probably won't bother)
<http://www.jwbrown.co.uk>
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