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beccaelizabethThe only thing funnier than listening to Jack being the Doctor is listening to the Doctor being Jack. The snarking at each other about it is a very close third place. So this entire adventure is hilarious.
And a little bit heartbreaking. Jack waited so long for the Doctor, and it's Six he catches up with. But not to worry, Six has had to edit his memory before, he'll just forget him... *sigh*
... which is rather different than when River did the same dance. Guess love across regenerations isn't quite how Jack and the Doctor work out...
It's a fun story because Jack is really good at being the Doctor and, also, really really bad at it. Like, there's nothing he did that the Doctor hasn't done? Up to and including getting married. ... though one wonders what exactly he used the sofa for, and if the Doctor does in fact do that...
Guns are another specific that is way more Jack than the Doctor, but, the Doctor building a better weapon was the last thing he knew about him. And they're trapped on a station with invaders climbing the levels, a hundred years or no, Jack would be thinking about it.
The level of belief the Doctor gets just by reputation though... Jack tried to leverage the scary bits, The Oncoming Storm, but the woman he met on the memoriad keeps saying the other bits, about people being better than they thought they could be. And then she says the Doctor never leaves anyone behind.
:(
But Jack doesn't puncture that, he isn't bitter, he just tries to help.
So it's got all this funny, but as a way to stab you in the feels when you're least expecting it.
Which is great.
And then Jack gets his apology. Six says he's not good at apologising so he'll get it i early. Says he leaves all the best people behind.
And it's just what Jack deserves, but this way around it'll never quite have the emotional weight it should, so it's probably not what he needs. :(
Also though, Six is fishing to find out about his own future, and he assumes Jack travelled with a future Doctor that's a woman. So one reading, he's looking forwards to that, but another, he's just watched Jack flirt his way through an adventure and get married, all to women, and yet he's noticed how Jack feels.
... Jack calls him a rail replacement Time Lord and is actually kind of vicious about him being the wrong one. Interesting set of assumptions about which kinds of wrong...
but they make friends again by the end.
I don't know, would I rather this was a grand romance? Because every companion gets their own way of growing up to be the Doctor. That wasn't quite what Jack wanted. But he didn't get what he wanted...
... I still want to write them a corner of happily ever after. Jack has a whole lot of time. It could happen.
I liked this adventure a lot, and I'd give it a 5/5 if I could rate bits individually on the LibraryThing. But it's a box set so there are still two parts to go.
:-)
And a little bit heartbreaking. Jack waited so long for the Doctor, and it's Six he catches up with. But not to worry, Six has had to edit his memory before, he'll just forget him... *sigh*
... which is rather different than when River did the same dance. Guess love across regenerations isn't quite how Jack and the Doctor work out...
It's a fun story because Jack is really good at being the Doctor and, also, really really bad at it. Like, there's nothing he did that the Doctor hasn't done? Up to and including getting married. ... though one wonders what exactly he used the sofa for, and if the Doctor does in fact do that...
Guns are another specific that is way more Jack than the Doctor, but, the Doctor building a better weapon was the last thing he knew about him. And they're trapped on a station with invaders climbing the levels, a hundred years or no, Jack would be thinking about it.
The level of belief the Doctor gets just by reputation though... Jack tried to leverage the scary bits, The Oncoming Storm, but the woman he met on the memoriad keeps saying the other bits, about people being better than they thought they could be. And then she says the Doctor never leaves anyone behind.
:(
But Jack doesn't puncture that, he isn't bitter, he just tries to help.
So it's got all this funny, but as a way to stab you in the feels when you're least expecting it.
Which is great.
And then Jack gets his apology. Six says he's not good at apologising so he'll get it i early. Says he leaves all the best people behind.
And it's just what Jack deserves, but this way around it'll never quite have the emotional weight it should, so it's probably not what he needs. :(
Also though, Six is fishing to find out about his own future, and he assumes Jack travelled with a future Doctor that's a woman. So one reading, he's looking forwards to that, but another, he's just watched Jack flirt his way through an adventure and get married, all to women, and yet he's noticed how Jack feels.
... Jack calls him a rail replacement Time Lord and is actually kind of vicious about him being the wrong one. Interesting set of assumptions about which kinds of wrong...
but they make friends again by the end.
I don't know, would I rather this was a grand romance? Because every companion gets their own way of growing up to be the Doctor. That wasn't quite what Jack wanted. But he didn't get what he wanted...
... I still want to write them a corner of happily ever after. Jack has a whole lot of time. It could happen.
I liked this adventure a lot, and I'd give it a 5/5 if I could rate bits individually on the LibraryThing. But it's a box set so there are still two parts to go.
:-)
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Date: 2019-09-06 08:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-09-06 10:21 pm (UTC)so I don't know when
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