#the face of boe

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

Alright, I'll say it: Jack Harkness and the Doctor's relationship is possibly the most fleshed out/complicated dynamic in Doctor Who and that is INCLUDING the master/doctor relationship. Seriously, think about it:

the fact that when they meet jack is presented as sleazy con man and the doctor makes him brave- makes him good

but that they are both willing to die for rose as long as she is safe

and then she comes back and dooms them both to live (even though jack has already died for her and the doctor WILL die for her)

(ninerosejack is canon and you cannot convince me otherwise)

but then the doctor sees jack as immortal as someone he COULD spend the rest of his life with

and instead of embracing it like you'd think he would because he is so wrecked by people leaving him/being left by him the doctor RUNS bc the Doctor is so scared of jack of what he means of what he is

jack ends up abandoned in dalek dust goes back in time to find the doctor suffers a hundred years alone/being tortured but STILL WAITS

(screw amy being the girl who waited or rory being the boy who waited- Jack Harkness is the boy who waited and he did it FIRST)

Jack finds out that he was abandoned. that the man that he loves HATES the sight of him. that the doctor would rather have a genocidal murderer than have him

and so Jack gets the hell out of dodge to go to a man who DOES love him

and don't get me wrong Jack loves Ianto and Jack DOES remember Ianto until he dies as the Face of Boe don't forget that (protecting Novice Hame from the virus as he couldn't Ianto

BUT AFTER EVERYTHING THE DOCTOR HAS DONE TO JACK JACK STILL LOVES THEM

Jack still considers five billion years cursed to never die to be BETTER than the alternative: dying a young time-agent-turned-con-man

Jack has more reason than any other companion save maybe Amy to hate the Doctor & yet spends 20 years in jail to rescue Thirteen still LOVES HER

AND AFTER FIVE BILLION YEARS HE ORGANIZES THAT FIRST MEETING ON SATELLITE FIVE HE ORGANIZES 9/ROSE'S FIRST DATE

jack harkness is a living ghost a reminder of the doctor's failures a physical fixed point and yet he still loves the girl who cursed him and the time lord that turned him into the kind of person that would give his dying breaths to protect the last of humanity in a dying city and tell the doctor that he is not alone

because fuck it, YANA was a warning but also a reminder a final gift

jack had been there all along, a ghost an echo a PROMISE

there is no more human character than jack harkness

[ionlylikemycat]

don’t know why it took me until now to realize

when jack dies, when the face of boe dies, he doesn’t just get to see the doctor one last time

he gets to see martha

the doctor says he’s been alive for Billions of years now, how long has it been since he’s seen the face of someone who Knew Him? who Loved Him?

martha jones, voice of a nightingale, and she comes back to him. she’s here, beautiful, and warm, and breathing and for one final moment

he’s with his friends. his family. with people who have loved him across time and space

and then his breath runs out and his life leaves the universe and he is finally, finally, allowed to rest

continuation on this post

[guardianspirits13]

I can’t believe he invented bisexuality in 2005

[therabbitofrassilon]

if captain jack harkness was on the cover of a beauty magazine would he be the face of vogue

[thekingofspin]

rewatching doctor who with knowledge of what happens in the future of the show is a whole experience in itself

like wdym Jack's pregnant??????

[bvmbl3b0x]

diversity wins!!! the giant million year old face who died was bisexual!!!!

[casasupernovas]

the doctor flirting with martha while jack is actively dying in the background is making me wheeze

[asexualenjolras]

I actually don't think I'll ever get over the parallel between Ianto Jones dying because of an alien virus and then the Face of Boe saving a whole world from suffering the same fate.

Because Jack never did forget Ianto. He kept his promise. And his love for him helped him to save thousands of lives. One last time.

Sobbing. Janto will live in my heart forever.

[thetrinitytest]

[rystiel]

[were-wolverine]

actually yall dont understand how important jack harkness is to me (and im sure plenty of other queer whovians)

in his first appearance he immediately checks out a girl and flirts with a guy in the span of like a minute. king shit. he is confidently queer and this aired in FUCKING 2005! that is so ahead of its time for queer representation! especially in such a large popular franchise! and there's no "bury your gays" because he's literally immortal!

[grandadtwelve]

I have many mixed feelings about the whole jack harkness/face of boe thing but i WILL cry over any and all interactions between the doctor and the face of boe bc i mean

"he will speak his secret only to one like himself. to a wanderer. to a man without a home."

the idea of jack, millions of years old, thinking up identifiers of the doctor to write into his own mythology and immediately landing on “one like himself” is just so

[stylesgotthesun]

All the doctor does is suffer from losing people he loves why can't he get some rest oh my god

[professeurm]

guys i just realize that technically jack harkness first appearance was The End of the World (1x02), not The Empty Child (1x09)

he first appeared as the Face of Boe, who was there to watch earth burn. like damn bro really lived that long and HE SPONSER THE EVENT?! like gurl aint no way 😂

can i also say cassandra blaming the boe and he just shaking his head. LMAO 💀💀

okay, back to topic

then we met jack, a con man in the 1941, who flirted and saved rose and met the Doctor later on.

not knowing jack and face of boe are the same people until Last of the Time Lord (3x13)

so it's like river song, she already knew the doctor when she met him and then he slowy got to know her and her learning about him. It's backward and it gets confusing at times. im still somewhat confuse, im just slow

anyway

the doctor mets jack in the future, when he's the face of boe, though there isn't much contact. then he meets jack still young and before he had immortality and they become best buddies. Both learning about each other

and back and forth, the doctor sees present jack and him as the face of boe. the doctor completely unaware that his friend is a long old good friend and companion through space and time

and just like river, the face of boe died with the tenth doctor. finally the man who can't die takes his last breath. rip handsome

[justicefllash]

Died 5,000,000,053, born 2024. Welcom back Captain Jack Harkness

[vescana]

Ten losing one of his oldest friends is the worst thing ever for me,, give him Rose and Boe back please.......