Army of Ghosts

[taffimai]

Watching Army of Ghosts on BBCA, and had thoughts:

1) Freema looks gorgeous in a suit with her hair pulled back. Absolutely lovely.
2) It's amazing how very different Jack's Torchwood is from Yvonne's. Clean and industrial vs. Victorian and decrepit; Yvonne's modern people skills vs. Jack's ... rather Jackesque leadership style.
3) What the hell was Jack doing during the two months of the ghost shift? I know fanon has him in Cardiff yelling and screaming at Yvonne. Except Yvonne is willing to listen to the Doctor fairly quickly, so why would she have ignored Jack? And the magnaclamps are from the base of Mount Snowdon, which would imply that Torchwood Three isn't operational (because wouldn't T3 have been doing salvage in Wales?) In The Sound of Drums Jack says that he rebuilt Torchwood after Canary Wharf in the Doctor's honor. Doesn't that imply that he wasn't part of it before?

Comments

[becky-h.livejournal.com]

Hey, whatever works for making sense out of the admittedly cracked canon. I can see him being a prisoner, though honestly not for particularly long - not with that list of deaths.

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

Hmmm ... I don't know, that list of deaths doesn't seem like it would have to cover too much past WWII. After all, Jack died five times in just the few months covered by Torchwood's first season. And three times in the week he was with the Doctor before the year of hell.

[becky-h.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but up to the end of WWII takes him 80 years past being stranded, give or take a few years. Of course that leaves about 60-70 that aren't mentioned, which obviously isn't insignifgant, at all.