That thing? In the episode?

[taffimai]

So, I've been venting to natlyn for the last half hour about the utter impossibility of remaining sane after being buried alive for 1,874 years. So the only fix I can think of will now become my personal canon.

My personal canon? The Doctor finds out about Jack being buried alive: unburies him a week or so after he's buried, they adventure around space and time for a bit, and then reburies him in time for the 1901 Torchwood to dig him up, thus preserving the timeline.

Comments

[versaphile.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was really too much, even for Torchwood. *facepalm*

[halfspokenwords.livejournal.com]

I am trying to convince myself that John's ring contained some kind of cryo-stasis field as well as a tracking device.

[miriam-heddy.livejournal.com]

My take on it is that Jack's ability to remain sane is linked to his ability to remain alive (or to not remain dead), and it's tied to Jack's being a Christ-like figure in the narrative.

Jack's something more than human, and just as his body doesn't retain the violence or damage that should kill a normal human body, his mind doesn't retain the damage that would come from being underground for so long. He's just wiped clean somehow--so that he's always pure, always whole, always capable of absorbing the wounds of other people and absolving them of their pain.

He couldn't be a savior without that.

[marzilla.livejournal.com]

I like the staying dead theory, but I also really like the Doctor theory. I mean, that would make perfect sense. The Doctor's always bumming around Earth, so at some point the TARDIS is sure to pick up on that signal from the ring. And then the Doctor would be like, hm, that doesn't belong in 27 CE, let's take a look. And then he'd dig up Jack and be like, oh, I should've known it was you. If you wanted a date, you could've just called.