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Okay, is it just me, or does anyone just think that Captain Jack is just a huge 'ol Mary Sue for Russell T. Davies?

I can just see him sitting in his office, deep in the basement of the BBC Wales division, and he's pitching it to the Beeb.

RTD: "Ohhh, and the Doctor will get a new companion, who's a charming time travelling rogue, you see, and he's very dashing and heroic and witty. Oh, and he's gay. Well, maybe bi. And he keeps a laser in his bum."

Poor Beeb Bastard:"Well, I suppose... A laser, you say?"

RTD: "And then he'll sacrifice his life to save The Doctor, very heroic, very Trojan, yes, all 'last man on the bridge', and then he'll be brought back to life, but he'll be immortal now! Can't be killed! And then he'll get his own spinoff, but he'll be all dark and broody, very sexy, and surrounded by misfits. It'll be like Fox Mulder and Angel had a love child, and he'll be pining for the Doctor, and all sacrificing and noble and tragic, oh so tragic."

PBB: "Well, I suppose. A spinoff? Have you discussed this with budgeting?"

RTD: "And he'll wear long coats, like a cape, because he's tortured in his soul, like Batman."

Date: 2007-02-16 04:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gamera-spinning.livejournal.com
He's definitely in the love him or leave him categories. I kinda like Captain Jack, but he's very Mary Sue.

Date: 2007-02-16 07:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pyat.livejournal.com
I kinda stopped liking the character around the time of the butt laser. Camelot is a very silly place.

Date: 2007-02-16 07:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] redeem147.livejournal.com
Funny, that's when I started liking him.

Date: 2007-02-16 09:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thetathx1138.livejournal.com
I'm just still trying to figure out how you'd install a butt laser. Or, for that matter, why.

Date: 2007-02-17 03:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thetathx1138.livejournal.com
Dude, I deal with evil reality TV show robots on a daily basis. Not the nudity though, that's a sexual harassment issue in the workplace.

So it's not a butt laser, it's a "laser you hide up your ass." Got it!

Date: 2007-02-16 04:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shara.livejournal.com
It's times like this I wish I had a television. I don't even know what *language* you are speaking.
From: [identity profile] gamera-spinning.livejournal.com
Jack: "That is so Welsh."
Gwen: "What is?"
Jack: "I show you something fantastic – you find fault."
Torchwood, "Everything Changes"

Date: 2007-02-16 08:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] madmanofprague.livejournal.com
...I'm not even sure it shows in Canada anyway.

Date: 2007-02-16 06:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] athelind.livejournal.com
So would you say that he's carrying a torch for The Doctor, or that he's just got wood?

Date: 2007-02-16 06:24 pm (UTC)

Date: 2007-02-16 06:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nexstarman.livejournal.com
I'm not having a hard time imagining Russell saying it, just a fun one.

Date: 2007-02-16 08:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] andpuff.livejournal.com
LMAO! Oh yeah, it happened just like that...

Date: 2007-02-16 10:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thetathx1138.livejournal.com
...Russel Davies is gay?

...Butt laser?

...

...the hell?

Date: 2007-02-17 03:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thetathx1138.livejournal.com
Ahhhhh, much becomes clear! I only knew him as the guy who revived "Doctor Who"...I'd vaguely heard of the name before but figured he was some British SF author or something.

Date: 2007-02-16 10:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] monsura.livejournal.com
Oh come on, Jack's not gay or bi, he's pansexual. That means he'll do anything, right? What that says about Mr. Davies, I don't wanna know...

Date: 2007-02-16 10:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rabidchyld.livejournal.com
As much as I really enjoyed Captain Jack and Torchwood, I kinda think that RTD used it as a vehicle to act out his fantasies, since he can't really do it on Dr. Who. Just think, if there hadn't been all of that unnecessary girl on girl and boy on boy action throughout the season, that kiss at the end would have had so much more impact.

Date: 2007-02-17 02:24 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
You're spot on, though I was too busy watching the parent show morph into "Rose Tyler and Her Alien Pal" to notice.

--Dr. Confederate Badass

Date: 2007-02-17 02:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] branger23.livejournal.com
I haven't even seen Torchwood yet and I don't know when it'll even air here in the US. Hell, I don't even think Sci-Fi is airing new Dr. Who eps. Still, I want to see them both!

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