Talk:Gray (Adam)

Is Gray dead? In episode one of season 3 the hub is destroyed and his bodie was there. --Ceryu 14:37, July 11, 2011 (UTC)

Presumably. However, if they ever wanted to bring him back, I'm sure they could find a way around this.--Skittles the hog - talk 15:18, July 11, 2011 (UTC)

And what is the origin of his skar? --Ceryu 19:07, July 11, 2011 (UTC)

What scar?--Skittles the hog - talk 19:43, July 11, 2011 (UTC)

He has some kind of mark in his face, in his right cheek. --Ceryu 22:16, July 11, 2011 (UTC)

images

i think grays page needs more images and more information. --Ceryu 02:33, July 12, 2011 (UTC)

This page needs an image of Gray as a child (like one from in one of Jack's flashbacks in Adam and Exit Wounds). TroopDude ^{talk to me} 20:32, April 24, 2012 (UTC)

Full name

I understand that we've given Gray the surname "Thane" based on his brother's full name Javic Piotr Thane as revealed in (AUDIO: Month 25, R&J). However, is it clear in those audios which parts of "Jack"'s original name are which? Do the people of the Boeshane Peninsula even share family names with eachother? Are they the Javic family, the Javic Piotr family, the Piotr Thane family, or the Thane family, or some other combination? Is one of "Jack"'s three names his mother's forename? Does he have one family name from each parent? If so, which is which? There are too many posibilities to imagine, and yet we seem to have made an assumption that Thane is "Jack"'s (sole) family name and therefore Gray must share it. That might be true if they were of English and/or American heritage, but not of they were of almost any other heritage. I propose that neither "Jack" not Gray nor Franklin are assigned the surname Thane unless they are given it in a reliable source. DBD ☎ 12:02, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

Well argued. This makes sense. Let's wait and see if anyone objects to a rename.
× SOTO (☎/✍/↯) 17:18, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

I don't object to the rename per se; by a classic interpretation of T:NPOV I think you're right that the Wiki shouldn't assume that's how Boeshane Peninsula names work.

That being said, I want it on the record that I'm… 75% sure our current parsing of the name "Javic Piotr Thane" is the intended one. "Javic" was clearly picked because it resembles "Jack", which is Jack's first name in his commonly-used Jack Harkness alias. Meanwhile, "Piotr" is a common first name, while "Thane" is an extant Scottish surname and given name. The fact that the two recognisable names out of the three are Western names makes it unlikely that we're meant to parse it as reflecting a "foreign", inverted naming scheme; and that impression is strengthened by the Javic/Jack parallels. Ergo, I am fairly sure the intended reading was what most viewers (and as it turns out editors) defaulted to: "Javic" as first name, "Piotr" as middle name, "Thane" as last name.

Conversely, I would also like to mention that even if Thane is taken to be Jack's family name, there's no guarantee that Gray and Franklin would share it, is there? Maybe Thane was Javic's mother's maiden name or something. The naming of "Gray Thane" would be speculative even if we were 100% certain that "Thane" was a last name. Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 17:50, 24 July 2021 (UTC)