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*Captain Jack claims he does not sleep ([[TV]]: ''[[Ghost Machine]]'') but at the beginning of this episode he does. | *Captain Jack claims he does not sleep ([[TV]]: ''[[Ghost Machine]]'') but at the beginning of this episode he does. | ||
::He could have simple being closing his eyes, or attempting to get some sleep. It could also be possible that Jack was simply exaggerating or simply lying. He may have just meant he doesn't need sleep and not that it is biologically impossible for him to sleep at all. | ::He could have simple being closing his eyes, or attempting to get some sleep. It could also be possible that Jack was simply exaggerating or simply lying. He may have just meant he doesn't need sleep and not that it is biologically impossible for him to sleep at all. | ||
::: Exagerating makes sense. Anyone would say "I don't sleep" while only having trouble to sleep. And Jack being haunted by his past every night makes sense. In retrospect, Jack is actually eluding Gwen's question in Ghost Machine being about where he sleeps, since there is somewhere he at least tries to. | |||
*Fairies kill people who cause harm to chosen ones, then why did they kill Estelle who wouldn't hurt a fly? | *Fairies kill people who cause harm to chosen ones, then why did they kill Estelle who wouldn't hurt a fly? | ||
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:: Jack hadn't done anything. Or, if this was after Rose made him immortal, and the faeries wanted him dead anyway for whatever reason, they may have known he was immortal and decided that killing him would be a lost cause. | :: Jack hadn't done anything. Or, if this was after Rose made him immortal, and the faeries wanted him dead anyway for whatever reason, they may have known he was immortal and decided that killing him would be a lost cause. | ||
::: The entire squad was killed and quoting Jack "some of them got drunk, drove a truck into the village, ran over a child, killed her". The faeries did not make any difference between the members of the squad while only some of them were responsible, so an explanation on the basis that Jack hadn't done anything wouldn't be consistent. | ::: The entire squad was killed and quoting Jack "some of them got drunk, drove a truck into the village, ran over a child, killed her". The faeries did not make any difference between the members of the squad while only some of them were responsible, so an explanation on the basis that Jack hadn't done anything wouldn't be consistent. | ||
:: An explanation, while complicated, could be on the faeries' capacity to ''travel'' through time. When Jack's squad was killed, the faeries could have known his future decision to let go the Chosen One. The explanation seems paradoxical at first, since Torchwood is useless all throughout the episode, only being able to intervene on time in the barbecue scene, even there not being able to save Roy. Yet, even then, without Jack, Jasmin would have "come away" anyway. But we don't know what Cardiff's Torchwood would be without Jack. In Doctor Who's ''[[Utopia]]'' episode, Jack claims that he changed Torchwood, departing from their old brutal ways, that was seen in some Doctor Who episodes (for example ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]''). Even Jack himself states that the Doctor changed him in ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]'', refering to him willing to sacrifice his life for humanity's sake. The Doctor might also have shown to Jack that he could negociate with non-humans (in their first encounter, in ''[[The Empty Child]]'' and ''[[The Doctor Dances]]'', the Doctor takes the risk of letting a mother touch her lethal child in order to rectify the nanogenes' misunderstanding of a human body) leading him to accept that Jasmin could go with the faeries instead of fighting for her to stay with her mother. | |||
[[Category:TW TV discontinuity]] | [[Category:TW TV discontinuity]] |