Hey, I've not given up on Harriet yet - there does seem to be a job opening for "Prime Minister who doesn't take any alien shit" going at the moment, after all. Besides, since when was disposing of slave traders ever considered a bad thing? ;)
But then I think that DW has always been amazingly inconsistent in its treatment of time travel and probabilities of existence! The Doctor fiddles with things - or doesn't - as he sees fit, and just uses whichever excuse he most fancies this week. Has to be a bit more careful now, though, as we've seen that without the clean-up squad vailable, Reapers do sometimes happen....
Hmm, wonder how Reapers would react to Jack? They'd probably be scared of him in the same way as the TARDIS and the Doctor. :)
Jack as Fixed Point absolutely fascinates me as a writer of fanfic - there's so much you can do with that. The whole idea of him as Fact, eternal and immutable (I'm not entirely convinced on the aging thing - knowing Jack he's probably been plucking those same few grey hairs since before he ever met Rose and is occasionally susprised to notice them again as they pop back along with everything else!), as basically something on a par with the laws of physics, is intriguing. He's been written into the universe as a permanent feature - but what does that actually mean? He has a unique relationship with space-time - is he simply going to live forever or are there aspects that he has yet to work out? Can he move freely through time and space without technical aid if he puts his mind to it? He knows what he is now, which must be very freeing, but how can he make use of that? I guess there's no great hurry for him to work out what, if anything, and how....
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But then I think that DW has always been amazingly inconsistent in its treatment of time travel and probabilities of existence! The Doctor fiddles with things - or doesn't - as he sees fit, and just uses whichever excuse he most fancies this week. Has to be a bit more careful now, though, as we've seen that without the clean-up squad vailable, Reapers do sometimes happen....
Hmm, wonder how Reapers would react to Jack? They'd probably be scared of him in the same way as the TARDIS and the Doctor. :)
Jack as Fixed Point absolutely fascinates me as a writer of fanfic - there's so much you can do with that. The whole idea of him as Fact, eternal and immutable (I'm not entirely convinced on the aging thing - knowing Jack he's probably been plucking those same few grey hairs since before he ever met Rose and is occasionally susprised to notice them again as they pop back along with everything else!), as basically something on a par with the laws of physics, is intriguing. He's been written into the universe as a permanent feature - but what does that actually mean? He has a unique relationship with space-time - is he simply going to live forever or are there aspects that he has yet to work out? Can he move freely through time and space without technical aid if he puts his mind to it? He knows what he is now, which must be very freeing, but how can he make use of that? I guess there's no great hurry for him to work out what, if anything, and how....
My, that was all remarkably waffly. :)