Wish I'd never met you, Doctor. I was much better off as a coward.
doctor who meme > six companions (6/6)
↳ jack harkness
jack harkness
We stand there, eight years old, staring at the raw power of time
and space, just a child. Some would be inspired. Some would run
away. And some would go mad.
doctor who meme > ten episodes (9/10)
↳ the sound of drums
Let me tell you a thing about Jack Harkness:
- Jack Harkness is a childhood survivor of war, who suffers intense PTSD and survivor’s guilt.
- Jack Harkness is, by genetic design, intersex. (See: Torchwood Exodus Code).
- Jack Harkness is a genius mechanic.
- Jack Harkness was the only companion I’ve ever seen that the Doctor trusted to fix the TARDIS.
- Jack Harkness made up plans brilliant enough for the Doctor to not only compliment but follow.
- Jack Harkness could hotwire the TARDIS with alien technology.
- Jack Harkness figured out Rose was still alive while the Doctor was still too shellshocked to think clearly.
- Jack Harkness figured out the Doctor’s plan for the Daleks with the barest hints from the Doctor.
- Jack Harkness used his charisma to not only lead himself into certain death, but a group of others, just to buy the Doctor sometime without even a moment of hesitation.
- Jack Harkness faced his death bravely, with a smart-ass remark and open arms.
- Jack Harkness was violated and altered by the Doctor’s favourite companion, then left behind in his victimized state in a satellite full of corpses of those he couldn’t save.
- Jack Harkness waited hundreds of years for the Doctor, only to be sneered at like a piece of shit the Doctor had stepped in.
- Jack Harkness, despite being treated like shit, despite being volunteered to step into the agony of a burning chamber of radiation, despite all the deaths he’d suffered waiting for the Doctor, still never hesitated once to follow him into a year of torture where he would die over 1,000 times through torture on no more than a single look.
CAPTAIN JACK HARKNESS IS NOT JUST AN IGNORANT SLUT THAT FLIRTS WITH EVERYONE.
I thought: ‘It’s time you introduce bisexuals properly into mainstream television,’” he said. “The most boring drama would be – ‘Oh, I’m bisexual, oh my bleeding heart’ nighttime drama. Tedious, dull. But if you say it’s a bisexual space pirate swaggering in with guns and attitude and cheek and humour into primetime family viewing – that was enormously attractive to me.
I often get asked to write dramas or films about a man coming out of the closet to his wife, or a man coming out of the closet to his children, or a man who’s beaten up because he’s secretly gay. I always refuse if it’s a negative take on homosexuality – if the only aspect being portrayed is the trouble, the tears and the angst.
Russell T Davies on bisexuality and the creation of Jack Harkness (x)
endless list of favorite RTD-era moments
↳ “If I can get this(key) around the Master’s neck, cancel out his perception, they’ll see him for real. It’s just hard to go unnoticed with everyone on red alert.”
I’m watching DW with my parents and The Face of Boe is in this one…
And one of the Cat nurses is saying that she can hear him singing, such old songs, in her head
So I’m just imagining Jack singing like old Earth ‘ballads’ music like
“BABY YOU’RE A FIREEEEEWORK / COME ON LET YOUR COLOURS BURST / MAKE ‘EM GO ‘AHH AHH AHH’ / YOU’RE GONNA LEAVE ‘EM ALL IN AWE AWE AWE”
I cAN’T
