Help me impress Dh - captain Jack Dr Who question....

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Ok, just a quickie so to speak....
Why can't Captain Jack die?
Dh will be evr so impressed if I can tell him!

because rose saved him and gave him the gift of eternal life.

because when rose inhaled the power from the tardis she bought jack back to life BUT she couldnt control the power so he ended up never being able to die and he will live for ever. had to rewatch dr who today on demand to find out myself!!

Because she swallowed the time thingie from the Tardis (Vortex??)

was that after she did the absorption of the tardis centre thing?

Aha, yes! Thank you

how technical are we with our "thingies" pmsl

Not a true sci fi buff am i??

She was consumed by the TARDIS Time Vortex (which is the thing that makes it a time machine) and made Jack live again...permanently

Is that better techy talk?

So Jack was bounced back to the 19th century and lived through the whole 20th. That means he lived through WW2 twice! Wonder if he was ever tempted to, say, tell people in Coventry to get out before the bombing?

And so in the episode of "Torchwood" where he and Toshiko were trapped in time - he'd have been in 1940 THREE times over!

and apparantly there are Jacks throughout time?
Doctor said to Jack in the radiation chamber?
'its the only man you'll ever be happy with'

No, just the one eternal Jack.

He meant that he could meet himself at the end of the universe.

Jack, having arrived with the Tardis, out of time.

And Jack, having lived until the end of the universe.

If that makes any sense at all I deserve a medal.

One contstant Jack but sometimes two at a time because he time travelled!

Yes

what? but is it not the same Jack, then? [flummoxed]

The problem is I understand it perfectly, I just can't explain it very well

Yes, same Jack but at differet points in his own existence.

Like Back to the Future 2 (the film, not the novelization ) Marty has to be careful in case he bumps into the other version of himself. Same person, different point in their life.

It's all that timey-wimey stuff, you know?

but hooooooooow? if he's travelling in time and space then he's the constant.

suebaroo. you absolutely CANNOT quote the space/time continuum rules of other productions.

Exactly.. time isn't a straight line, it's more like a ball of timey-wimey stuff, see.

If Jack is in point A in his life, he then goes off in time and goes something else, then comes back to point A, but in his timeline, it's now point B. But there is still a Jack in point A, because that's now happened, it's in his past.

Like, if I visit my childhood home in 1979, I will meet myself, but it will be a two year old child I meet, not me right now.

Aitch, I bloody well can, missy, if The Doctor did it, so can I...

did the doctor really say 'in back to the future?' i missed that.

Yup, in The Shakespeare Code, the Doctor explains the elastic nature of time using the 'fading' thing from Back to the Future. I even quoted it in my earlier post.

I do other stuff apart from watch Dr Who, btw. Just thought I'd underline that.

cough

ah. i never saw the shakey one. so he actually mentioned the film Back To The Future, did he?

It's also known as the Time Trousers concept. You make a choice and hurtle off down the right leg. But in a parallel universe there's the you who made the other choice and went down the left leg.

(See Red Dwarf, Terry Pratchett and gosh, lots of other entertaining stuff.)

He did. 'twas most amusing. I love the way it's all self-aware and in-jokey now.