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Feb. 23rd, 2011 10:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solitary_summerA question for the TW watchers - has anyone ever managed to successfully date Jack' wedding picture from Something Borrowed? Clicking around on google a bit suggests a date around 1900, 1910-ish, but that's as far as I got.
The thing is... Jack died the first time in 1892. At some unspecified date later, but definitely before 1901, he came to Cardiff, got drunk a lot, got himself killed another 14 times in the space of six months, and was finally picked up by Torchwood. Now granted, Jack is a law unto himself, but it was clearly not a happy time for him, and I find it hard to believe that between coming to terms with his immortality, trying to find the Doctor, and being forced to work for Torchwood he'd have thought getting married was a good idea. What would make more sense to me is to date the wedding before 1892, but I'm not sure the style of the dress supports this theory.
Or am I overthinking this?
The thing is... Jack died the first time in 1892. At some unspecified date later, but definitely before 1901, he came to Cardiff, got drunk a lot, got himself killed another 14 times in the space of six months, and was finally picked up by Torchwood. Now granted, Jack is a law unto himself, but it was clearly not a happy time for him, and I find it hard to believe that between coming to terms with his immortality, trying to find the Doctor, and being forced to work for Torchwood he'd have thought getting married was a good idea. What would make more sense to me is to date the wedding before 1892, but I'm not sure the style of the dress supports this theory.
Or am I overthinking this?
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Date: 2011-02-23 09:25 pm (UTC)Jack, being Jack and having a weird sense of personal responsibility and self-punishment, could probably come up with a lot of reasons that are outside of the "good idea for his own personal fulfillment" category for getting married. Conversely, I can see him clutching onto a relationship in an attempt at normalcy that he then can't actually execute on.
The tie-in novels have him owning all sorts of random property around Cardiff in and around that period, which suggests a life somewhere other than under an office, possibly with another person.
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Date: 2011-02-24 12:50 am (UTC)Presuming that working for Torchwood gives him a purpose and a solid base, I can see him falling in love and deciding to do some actual living. And then if it all ends very tragically it'd explain why he lets the war separate him from Estelle, why he lets Lucy's mother go into hiding and have very little contact, why he never makes a move where Gwen is concerned - he's lived through one nightmare, and won't allow himself another.
ETA: When I say nightmare, I don't mean something *horrible* happened per se - maybe it was just her ageing and him not (he is smiling when he looks at the photo after all). But he is an optimist and I could see a Highlander scenario maybe? And he won't allow himself to get that close anymore, to share someone's life to that degree, because of the pain?
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