Utopia Speculation
May. 20th, 2007 02:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
taffimaiI've been pondering the continuity issues raises by the clip we saw of "Utopia" and what we saw in "End of Days" and I have an idea ...
What if they're both accurate?
Everyone's been looking at the Utopia trailer as a huge problem, since the only thing that we know from End of Days is that Jack didn't go out through the tourist office. It certainly looked like the Doctor picked him up from the Hub, but Jack taking the invisible lift up to the Plass was certainly possible. And yet in Utopia he's clearly running to catch the Tardis on the Plass from that direction of the tourism office.
And that's not the only problem.
In Utopia Jack has a rucksack, but it definitely doesn't look like he had time to grab a bag in End of Days. Now it's not a hard sell that Jack always keeps a bag packed, just in case, but it doesn't seem likely that he's keep it in the middle of the hub, and it doesn't seem like there would have been time to grab it from anywhere else.
Finally, in End of Days Jack has just revived, he looked like hell and seemed weak. In Utopia he's all-out sprinting towards the Tardis. This isn't a huge issue, since we have lots of evidence of Jack pushing himself and doing what's needed, but it's a little strange.
So why assume that the two are mutally exclusive? What if Jack did get picked up by the Doctor in the Hub, a Doctor from a later point in his timeline who wanted to get Jack ready to face his younger self? It would resolve all the issues in continuity, since the Doctor would have dropped him off just out of site on the Plass, Jack could have packed a bag from his old room in the Tardis, and the Doctor would have given him some time to recover his strength. Plus, given the little we've seen of the Doctor in Utopia, I could see older-Doctor wanting to prepare Jack for the idiocy of his younger self.
Obviously it's a bit early to know if this works, but I thought it was interesting. What do you all think?
What if they're both accurate?
Everyone's been looking at the Utopia trailer as a huge problem, since the only thing that we know from End of Days is that Jack didn't go out through the tourist office. It certainly looked like the Doctor picked him up from the Hub, but Jack taking the invisible lift up to the Plass was certainly possible. And yet in Utopia he's clearly running to catch the Tardis on the Plass from that direction of the tourism office.
And that's not the only problem.
In Utopia Jack has a rucksack, but it definitely doesn't look like he had time to grab a bag in End of Days. Now it's not a hard sell that Jack always keeps a bag packed, just in case, but it doesn't seem likely that he's keep it in the middle of the hub, and it doesn't seem like there would have been time to grab it from anywhere else.
Finally, in End of Days Jack has just revived, he looked like hell and seemed weak. In Utopia he's all-out sprinting towards the Tardis. This isn't a huge issue, since we have lots of evidence of Jack pushing himself and doing what's needed, but it's a little strange.
So why assume that the two are mutally exclusive? What if Jack did get picked up by the Doctor in the Hub, a Doctor from a later point in his timeline who wanted to get Jack ready to face his younger self? It would resolve all the issues in continuity, since the Doctor would have dropped him off just out of site on the Plass, Jack could have packed a bag from his old room in the Tardis, and the Doctor would have given him some time to recover his strength. Plus, given the little we've seen of the Doctor in Utopia, I could see older-Doctor wanting to prepare Jack for the idiocy of his younger self.
Obviously it's a bit early to know if this works, but I thought it was interesting. What do you all think?
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Date: 2007-05-20 08:12 pm (UTC)The recovering from dying seemed to get longer as the series went on - Suzie shooting him in the head took under a minute, Owen doing the same took a couple of minutes. So maybe it's got something to do with how healthy he is when he dies? He's not exactly on top form when Owen shoots him.
But yeah - regular cuts and bruises and stuff? I reckon they're the ones that stick around.
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Date: 2007-05-20 08:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-20 08:17 pm (UTC)Yes, this is exactly right. :)