How about a Captain Jack show,set in space?

[Jayson]

Just a idea but it might be fun to see him interacting in a different enviroment. You could get drama from him dealing with the emotions he will be feeling fro mthe mini-series. That or how about changing to settting of "Torchwood" to a space-based setting instead of earth?


Jason

 

[wamdue]

it is an interesting idea, unlikely to happen however.

Jack will be in the 10th doctors finale, so we will see what happened to him after he left Earth

 

[jamestyler]

Nah - Torchwoods been at it's best with the human/Earthy elements. The Doctor an do all the fancy stuff, Jack should stay grounded.

 

[HappyDayRiot]

it is an interesting idea, unlikely to happen however.

Jack will be in the 10th doctors finale, so we will see what happened to him after he left Earth

Unlikely. The End of Time is set at Christmas, isn't it? If so, it's set 3 months before Jack leaves Earth at the end of Children of Earth.

 

[matthunter]

it is an interesting idea, unlikely to happen however.

Jack will be in the 10th doctors finale, so we will see what happened to him after he left Earth

Unlikely. The End of Time is set at Christmas, isn't it? If so, it's set 3 months before Jack leaves Earth at the end of Children of Earth.

If...

Spoiler: Spoilers

the Doc manages a trip to 2005 to say hi to Rose prior to her meeting his Ninth incarnation

...then I don't think the notion that the episode is "set" at Christmas has any real bearing. It may well be that the Earthbound events occur primarily at Xmas 2009 but Jack's segment could occur anywhen.

Heck, assuming he isn't an hallucination...

Spoiler: Character Appearance

Ood Sigma supposedly shows up, and he's from about the year 400,000!

 

[The Wormhole]

it is an interesting idea, unlikely to happen however.

Jack will be in the 10th doctors finale, so we will see what happened to him after he left Earth

Unlikely. The End of Time is set at Christmas, isn't it? If so, it's set 3 months before Jack leaves Earth at the end of Children of Earth.

Honestly, when has Doctor Who ever followed its own continuity faithfully, let alone continuity with its spinoffs?

 

[Sci]

Just a idea but it might be fun to see him interacting in a different enviroment.

Hmm. A British sci-fi adventure show about an immortal man, who dies and comes back all the time, traveling through space.

Gee.

Where have I heard that one before?

 

[Guy Gardener]

I want to see Jack in the middle of a bug hunt through the highs and lows of Eurodisney as he explains how the Disney Corporation is a front for the illuminati who bank rolled the Nazi, the master and most of the most noxious boybands on the scene in the last 15 years and continuing to profess the loomy threat that will someday threaten humanity when the colony of Disney planet sues for independence and...

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Just a idea but it might be fun to see him interacting in a different enviroment.

Hmm. A British sci-fi adventure show about an immortal man, who dies and comes back all the time, traveling through space.

Gee.

Where have I heard that one before?

Except The Doctor isn't immortal. He's nearly immortal (as The Second Doctor once said about his people). One of the things I'm hoping whoever is running the show when The Doctor hits his final regeneration will focus on The Doctor realizing his existence is coming to an end. I want to see how The Doctor handle that kind of startling thought. Oh, sure, there are loopholes around the regeneration limit (see The Five Doctors, but I think the show would be FAR more interesting to watch if it forces The Doctor to face his mortality and doesn't go through a cheat. Everything is finite. Even Jack (if he's really The Face of Boe).

And that won't happen anytime soon anyways. If each of the following actors last 3-4 years each, the show wouldn't be ending for another 9-12 years. So why not make it all the more interesting and give this incredible series the grand conclusion it deserves?

 

[Sci]

Just a idea but it might be fun to see him interacting in a different enviroment.

Hmm. A British sci-fi adventure show about an immortal man, who dies and comes back all the time, traveling through space.

Gee.

Where have I heard that one before?

Except The Doctor isn't immortal. He's nearly immortal (as The Second Doctor once said about his people). One of the things I'm hoping whoever is running the show when The Doctor hits his final regeneration will focus on The Doctor realizing his existence is coming to an end. I want to see how The Doctor handle that kind of startling thought. Oh, sure, there are loopholes around the regeneration limit (see The Five Doctors, but I think the show would be FAR more interesting to watch if it forces The Doctor to face his mortality and doesn't go through a cheat. Everything is finite. Even Jack (if he's really The Face of Boe).

And that won't happen anytime soon anyways. If each of the following actors last 3-4 years each, the show wouldn't be ending for another 9-12 years. So why not make it all the more interesting and give this incredible series the grand conclusion it deserves?

Which is all well and good, but my point remains: A show following Captain Jack in space wouldn't be sufficiently different from Doctor Who in premise to warrant its own program.

 

[Bacl]

I always would have much rather had a show along the lines of "Captain Jack: Time Traveling Con-Man"

The character of Captain Jack from the Empty Child/Doctor Dances bares no resemblance to the guy on Torchwood, except they both wear the same coat. I really wish they hadn't made the character so different for Torchwood, and the premise so dull and limiting.

 

[DWF]

Well Torchwood was meant to defend earth, but we do know from The Impossible Planet/Satan Pit that there are Torchwood agents even in space. Still I can't imagine a space based Torchwood show right now.

 

[Bacl]

Space based Torchwood has potential. So does a prequel series set during Jack's missing two years at the Time Agency.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Hmm. A British sci-fi adventure show about an immortal man, who dies and comes back all the time, traveling through space.

Gee.

Where have I heard that one before?

Except The Doctor isn't immortal. He's nearly immortal (as The Second Doctor once said about his people). One of the things I'm hoping whoever is running the show when The Doctor hits his final regeneration will focus on The Doctor realizing his existence is coming to an end. I want to see how The Doctor handle that kind of startling thought. Oh, sure, there are loopholes around the regeneration limit (see The Five Doctors, but I think the show would be FAR more interesting to watch if it forces The Doctor to face his mortality and doesn't go through a cheat. Everything is finite. Even Jack (if he's really The Face of Boe).

And that won't happen anytime soon anyways. If each of the following actors last 3-4 years each, the show wouldn't be ending for another 9-12 years. So why not make it all the more interesting and give this incredible series the grand conclusion it deserves?

Which is all well and good, but my point remains: A show following Captain Jack in space wouldn't be sufficiently different from Doctor Who in premise to warrant its own program.

Er, um, yes, actually I completely agree. I got a little carried away in my nitpicking, didn't I?

 

[HappyDayRiot]

^ Those concerns in mind, it would probably be a fairly hard sell. Sure Jack would be travelling in space and presumably not in time, and you'd hope he didn't keep going back to Earth to stop yet another invasion in the present day... but no, I'd agree with Sci and Emh. Jack in Space probably isn't as good an idea as it sounds.

 

[Sci]

^ Those concerns in mind, it would probably be a fairly hard sell. Sure Jack would be travelling in space and presumably not in time, and you'd hope he didn't keep going back to Earth to stop yet another invasion in the present day... but no, I'd agree with Sci and Emh. Jack in Space probably isn't as good an idea as it sounds.

The other Jack/Doctor parallel that just occurred to me -- beyond "all his coworkers worship at his feet," anyway -- is that they both have mysterious pasts, went on the run from their own people for reasons yet unexplained, and have hidden their true names from everyone they know.

 

[Starkers]

Good points.

There is one huge difference between them though. When the Doctor told the Vashda Narada to look him up it patently scared the shit out of them (if shadow creaures actually defacate of course ) When Ianto told the 456 to look Jack up, the 456 basically laughed in his face and killed everyone!!

If nothing else the Doctor has much better PR...

 

[Jim Steele]

 

[jamestyler]

If nothing else the Doctor has much better PR...

Well he's got a few years on Jack, it's like trying to have Slugo-Cola compete with Coke.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

I'd have no problems with a Jack-in-space show, as that's what the end of Children of Earth gives us. Jack's gotten the fuck off Earth, he's running from himself, and what does he do? Does he hunt down every last Four-Five-Six and frag those alien smackheads? Does he hook up with the Shadow Proclamation? I don't know. But coming back to Earth and hanging around Cardiff now seems so limiting.