#doctorjack

[grandadtwelve]

whew his taste in men 👍🏼

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[glittter-skeleton]

Rip Fifteen, you would’ve fallen in love with Jack Harkness instantly

Bonus doodle:

[victoryshowers]

yeah okay. take two. close enough?

[atlasisnothere]

not to irl post on main but me and a doctor who group I cosplay with got some photos back from a shoot we did a couple weeks ago and therefore I must do my due dilligence and share these for my approximately 4 tenjack mutuals on here 🫡

[amysstarlesslife]

thinking about how many times jack must've met / almost met the doctor out of order . do you think he heard about unit & their doctor in the seventies & thought he was about to be saved only to see a white haired man who had no idea who he was and a different nineteen year old blonde girl ? how many times do you think he followed a lead on a doctor only to see someone completely unfamiliar to and with him ? stranded on earth with only one way out except the one way out has the most messed up timeline you've ever seen .

[undescribed1mage]

[enbyeighthdoctor]

"Wish I’d never met you, Doctor. I was much better off as a coward."

[natlovely]

ninejack flirting im not normal about them ....

[prigorie]

insane how if you accept that jack is the face of boe, it means that (not counting going back to earth in the christmas invasion) the doctor's first trip after abandoning jack is... right back to jack. i am so unwell about them

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

crack theory number two: Jack Harkness is Ruby Sunday's father. Mother. Whatever. We know he can get pregnant, it's canon, 51st century biology and all. Who's the dad? Eh, fuck it, insert your choice of randos here. The Doctor's her dad and/or stepdad. Rogue's her other stepdad. Rose and River can both be stepmoms by proxy. LOVE WINS.

[dandelionjack]

actually actually… buckle in for some more unnecessarily detailed baseless speculation*. because it’s fun and there’s still 2 weeks to go (*stop accusing me of TJLCery i’m going to cry)

so, since rogue is the pre-finale episode… as a pattern those tend to begin in the manner of your average doccy who story, but finish with a devastating plot twist denouement to segue into the two-parter at the end. best examples of this are utopia and (gotta hand it to s12 here) the haunting of villa diodati. “it’s a celebrity historical! byron and the shelleys are here! oh and oops… what’s that? that’s the sound of the doctor making a fatal mistake that will inevitably lead her to the narrative climax…”

now what i’m getting at is. what if we’ve all been looking in the wrong place and rogue, not TLORS, is the episode by the end of which the doctor figures out that they’re stuck inside a TV show that’s been remixing old stories from their former adventures? “bridgerton! regency era! jane austen! flirting! ballgowns! dancing! oh and oops… what’s that? that’s the sound of doctor making a tragic discovery that will inevitably lead him to the narrative climax…”

here’s how this ties in to the popular “jonathan groff = recast harkness” theory. now, i USED to be an ardent proponent of it, but i no longer believe he’s actually playing pre-TEC/TDD captain jack, or any era captain jack at all, really. what he is playing, or so i gather apropos of crumbs and wisps of information, is a remarkably harkness-like character. just alike enough to make us (and the doctor!!) wonder: am i getting deja vu?? has rtd devolved into a hack who’s been reusing his old ideas and hoping we won’t notice?

no. look at the sneaky incorporation of The Doctor Dances’ title in the DWM paragraph above. he’s hoping we do.

it’s been pretty much confirmed by ~inside sources~ (read: leaks on reddit from ages ago) that groff’s playing either a time agent or former time agent — judging by the description above, it’s “former time agent turned bounty hunter”. charming, handsome rizzlord fella from the future (what’s that blaster in this hand? could it be from the villengard factories?), adept at blending in with a british historical period despite sounding noticeably american, actively involved in the social life of that historical era, morally grey and antagonistic towards the doctor at first, yet strangely alluring… sexual tension heavily implied… we’re supposed to feel like we’ve seen all this before. this man is a Not-Harkness.

change the doctor’s life forever is the key sentence here. as the doctor realises how remarkably similar groff-“rogue” is to jack when he first met him, and how the circumstances of their meeting almost rhyme too, he’ll notice some more odd things.

he’ll notice. he’ll notice how ruby looks like clara, waited for him while she aged like amy did, called her mum from a future space station looking down through a panoramic window at a planet like rose had, how their relationship is a best friendship/sibling-esque like with donna … he’ll notice how many of their adventures together seem to retread steps already walked. and then the puzzle will click into shape and it will “change the doctor’s life forever”: he’ll discover that this is a puppet show and go searching for whoever’s pulling the strings.

Not-Harkness “Rogue” Groff is the catalyst. the final straw.

or maybe not. maybe this is complete waffle i pulled out of my arse. only time will tell

[rystiel]

in honor of 15’s first season finally starting (featuring jack because i’ll miss him forever)

[jolysuis]

i have nothing to say, take this ig

[victoryshowers]

they both need to get neutered they should do it together

[doctorwhoisadhd]

WHAT IF THE REASON JACK STANDS ON ROOFS ALL THE TIME IS BECAUSE HES LOOKING FOR THE TARDIS

[amysstarlesslife]

(parting of the ways; doctor who, end of days; torchwood, i get so jealous of euthanized dogs; june gehringer, all my little words; the magnetic fields, fragments; torchwood, how to be a dog; andrew kane, absent friends; big finish script, let dead dogs lie; silas denver melvin, i know the end; phoebe bridgers, day one; torchwood)

JACK HARKNESS + THE DOCTOR