With the power his lips have, damaging them would seem to be just as harmful as getting a bullet hole through the head. Other sharp-eyed viewers have also noticed Jack prefers water to alcohol each time he has been out drinking with Gwen and the crew. Way back in The Doctor Dances, he ordered up a Martini as his last meal, so when and why did the Captain become a teetotaler?
Just a few pointless things to think about on this slow news day. Don't forget to catch John Barrowman on Friday night with Jonathan Ross tonight on BBC1 at 10:35 when none of these questions will be answered.
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My own theory is that it only kicks at the point of death. A bust lip isn't exactly life-threatening is it !.
Maybe he was immortal before but when he said ' I felt so alive' it was a clue to that he has not got his mortality back? Just a thought
I bet it is just a flub. I bet Jack said he felt alive was because he was finally faciing something that couldn't die easily just like him.
Dunno about the lip - could be just a flub or perhaps deliberate cover up from Jack - an effort to appear normal after his escaping deletion.
As for him saying he felt so alive , I think knowing he can't die has taken some of the excitement out of Jacks life.
After all , before now he's been all about excitement , but were's the thrill knowing you'll always be OK afterwards ?
Also consider this : We don't know if Jack still ages - I'd guess not.
He could be looking at everyone he cares about growing old and dying while he himself continues on to make more friends and watch them die too and so on - forever!
A situation like that could make somebody wish for their own death , rather than never ending mental torture and lonliness.
(A plight shared by "The Lonely God" himself ;) )
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P.S. There have already been several flubs in previous episodes , e.g. When Tosh first describes Ed Morgan's phobias to Owen she calls him Claustrophobic , yet later when she's looking at his medical records it says he's Agrophobic...(and since Ed Morgan said he hadn't been outside for so long I think the latter is the correct one)
when lisa was trying to kill him i felt that each attempt seemed to take more of a toll on him/ took him longer to get up - so perhaps it's not so much a case of no longer being imortal as it just taking longer to 'reboot' and the bust up lip being an outward symptom of that...
if jack can't age then that also the begs the question of how much 'jack time' has passed between leaving the doctor and rose and torchwood - perhaps he has been wandering around for years and years allready?
I'd have to agree with the person who said that it only kicks in when he dies. If it happens this way it would be easier to hide the imortality from people if they couldn't see wounds suddenly be healed.
I don't think it's a flub. I think he has to die to sort of regenerate this body (sort of like the doctor but gets to keep his own body) The TARDIS is very smart you know.
He has lost the thrill 'cos he can't die. He needs to be able to die to live. No adrenlin if you know your going to be ok.
hey he ordered a martini for his last meal but think he can't die now after rose brought him back to life when he got killed in doctor who so maybe drinking reminds him of times when he could die but now he can't so he thinks whats the use gona live for ever and watch them all grow old and die (meaning gwen and the others) and drinking reminds me of when i could die when i could die with them
P.s - JB was so funny on Jonathan Ross i was laughing so hard. I love seing his little action figue. Jonathan Ross kept taking the mickey out of it. Seems JB loves being 3 inches tall.
i think it only kicks in once he dies. my theory is that when rose brought him back she was seeing all of time and space, therefore bringing him back to life through out time and space, not just that once. just a theory but i know a few other people agree
Or perhaps he doesn't drink because he has a need to be in control whenever the great 21st-century event is supposed to happen. Or maybe he fears that if he gets drunk, he will let things about his past slip out. I'm sure we'll find out sooner or later.
I don't think it was a flub, just for the reason that the split lip was SOOOOOO NOTICABLE! DUH, IT WAS OBVIOSLY SUPPOSED TO BE! so, im guessing that, ya, he can't die just means that. He can't die, but he can still injure himself, just not severly.
I think that maybe Jack doesn't drink because possiably the alcohol can no longer effect him, his brain can no longer get 'drunk' cos he heals. (I know this contradicts with my first point, so sue me!)
Jack's not a teetotaller -- in fact, he had a beer in the very first episode of Torchwood when he drugged Gwen.
Er, ignore my comment. I just looked at the episode again and, although he's drinking from a beer stein, it looks like water. Hmm.
My own guess is that he ages and is hurt and heals exactly like a normal person until the point of death. As soon as he dies his body regenerates to the moment before he was killed by the Daleks.
Man, I love hearing fan theories. Keep them coming guys and girls - :)
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