This is a bit... er...

[mercyrobot]

Disjointed thoughts on guns, Doctors, Captains, things that glow, and that chick in tonight's ep.


So, this:




Got me thinking.

Actually, it mostly got me going WTF. No way is it just some coincidence for a vintage Webley to show up in the 61st (if the dates are to be believed) century.

First thought was that Cobb is actually Jack a lot-lot-lot-lot of years forward and back down the road. But eh, far-fetched and doesn't really work.

So my wacky brain decided it's more likely that it's the PTB drawing paralells between Jenny and Jack. In no particular order:

Both left behind dead, both back to life with glowy stuff. Oh, and when the Doctor's talking about the terraforming wossit, he says, "Not for killing, for bringing life."

Jenny was just a soldier, but became something better because of the Doctor. (Insert 'Jack' and 'con-man' in the appropriate places.) I.e. when she realises she had the choice not to shoot Cobb.
(Sidenote: the Doctor and Ianto both say 'there's always a choice.')

When they're in the tunnels, Jenny's about to shoot another sentry and the Doctor says, "Don't you dare." Remind you of Utopia?

And there was Jenny's whole 'snog the guard and take his gun' thing. Very Jack. Really, Jenny herself and her interactions with the Doctor remind me of Jack on the whole. Eh, okay, he likes her better.


So what's it all mean? I haven't the foggiest. It could mean that Jenny can't die. It could mean that Jenny will join Torchwood. It could mean the writers were entertaining themselves. It could mean Rusty's out of ideas.


Totally unrelated: I suck at Who backstory. When the Doctor says Jenny was too much like him, is he implying he doesn't have any regenerations left? I thought the limit was 13.

Possibly I'm reading way too much into this?

Comments

[sophonix.livejournal.com]

O.o' That episode really got me WTF too...

Besides the whole Jenny=Jack and the gun thing... Did you notice the Doctor being called "wrong"? I had my revenge there...

[thirstyrobot.livejournal.com]

I didn't even think of that! Sort of a Jack reference too, if a bit more oblique since Donna doesn't know that bit of history. But yeah, I kinda went, "Ha! See how you like it!"

[eponine-b.livejournal.com]

Did she actually mean it like that - unnatural as opposed to incorrect? I just took it to mean that she was saying he was wrong about the parental/familial side of him dying along with his family. I mean the whole "something I've never told you before" could just come from the fact that while she's called him out on some of his decisions and disagreed with him, from what I can remember, she's never actually flat out told him he was wrong about anything before.

[thirstyrobot.livejournal.com]

No, I honestly don't think Donna meant it that way, and maybe there's really nothing to the fact that she phrased it like that. It still sort of made me go 'huh' though, just because it strikes that chord (for me at least) whether it's intentional or not.

(And sidenote, I totally thought she was about to confess to having a kid somewhere.)