The Doctor and romance

[AdmiralGarak]

he finds Jack, and we dont really know how old he is.

I don't think the internet could survive that many geeks' heads exploding at one time. Doctor Who fandom would tear itself to shreds within hours of the first spy report.


I say Moff goes for it.

sorry what do you think im suggesting?

You quoted Castellan's quip about the Doctor not being able to find a 700 year old woman in response to my comment that I didn't want the Doctor to romance teenagers. You then suggested he find 700+ year old Jack instead. Clearly, I took it as a suggestion you wanted the Doctor to shack up with Jack.

At any rate, I took it as a joke.

 

[wamdue]

my point was that Captain Jack proves its possible for the Doctor to meet somebody 700+ years, not that he should hook up with Jack.

 

[Sci]

he finds Jack, and we dont really know how old he is.

Well, he was probably around 35-40 (assuming 51st Century Humans don't age more slowly than us today) when he was exterminated by the Daleks. We know that Jack lived through about 1869 to 2008, so around one hundred forty years before he met the Doctor again at the beginning of "Utopia." From there, he lived a year that was reversed before returning Torchwood Three. We know that in "Exit Wounds," Jack is sent back to 27 C.E. and buried, forced to suffocate and die and revive until 1901, when he's placed in cryogenic suspension before waking again in 2009. And let's say that a year passed between "Exit Wounds" and Children of Earth, and that about six months passed from "Day Five" to "The End of Time, Part Two."

So, by my count, if we assume Jack was 35 when we met him, that would make him about 2,157 years old when last we see him in "The End of Time, Part Two."

So if that's correct jack is older than the doctor

To be fair, I imagine that Jack must have found some way to spend the majority of his time buried beneath the grounds of Cardiff unconscious, because I simply can't imagine that a man could asphyxiate, be revived, and then asphyxiate again, over and over again, for two thousand years, without becoming so psychologically traumatized as to be rendered mentally non-functional. (Perhaps he always asphyxiated before regaining consciousness?) So I think it's unlikely that Jack actually experienced most of those 2,157 years.

Also, as has been noted many times before, the Doctor is probably either lying about his age or doesn't even know his real age. So when he says he's 906, he may well be making that up. I want to say that at least a few of the New Adventures novels pushed his age up to the big Two-Oh-Oh-Oh, didn't they? So it's possible that the Doctor is still older than Jack.