On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:08:18 -0400, George W Harris
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> 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.
Yes. You do understand that "Captain Jack Harkness" is
a time traveller, right? It's easy to use a name before
you acquire it, when you've got a time machine.
Specifically, "Jack" was born sometime around the 50th
century. He used a time machine to travel from the future
to 1941 London to pull off a con, for which purpose he took
the name of a then-MIA American RAF volunteer named Jack
Harkness.
While attempting that con, he crossed paths with The Doctor
and Rose Tyler, also time travellers from the future, and
when his own craft was destroyed in the ensuing wackiness he
hitched a ride in their time machine.
He spent some time in their company, adventuring and dancing
across time and space, using the "Jack Harkness" name that
they knew him by. Sometime in the 200th century (give or take),
he was killed helping to Save the World from the Daleks.
And shortly thereafter resurrected by the very tem****arily
and somewhat incompetently omnipotent Rose Tyler. I expect
the plan was for a healthy but still mortal "Jack" to be
safely returned to early 21st century England; the actual
result was an immortal Jack stuck in late 19th century
England without a working time machine.
Where he continued to use the name, "Jack Harkness", and
proceeded to live through the next hundred twenty or so
years the usual way, adventuring and dancing and Saving
the World and helping to build Torchwood. And doing a
bit more time travelling, but only brief trips returning
to where and when he started.
So, no goof.
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