Um..Okay Torchwood Question

[kristen999]

The past two weekends I've left Dr. Who and Torchwood on in the background while I wrote. It makes me raise an eyebrow or two now and then. I should just go on wikipedia but if I ever decide to watch from the beginning without being spoiled, I don't want to.

But Jack just go stabbed in the chest by this..well um alien knife/sword thing and he just walked or more like ran away without batting an eye.

Can he not be hurt or something?

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[pfyre.livejournal.com]

actually it's not that Jack cannot die - it is that he does not STAY dead

Rose's actions that brought him back to life had the unexpected side effect of making him a 'fixed point in time and space' according to the Doctor - Jack is "wrong" and shouldn't exist

my advice with Doctor Who is to start with the Christopher Eccelston Doctor's eps and move forward from that time - and you could always goto Wikipedia and do a bit of reading on it - there are some fairly thorough descriptions of the show there

as for Jack not being able to die making it anti-climatic - well the thing to keep him mind - he might come back to life - but he does suffer the death and generally it is not pleasant - plus if he's just injured he heals at the same rate as a normal human - only when he 'dies' does he have a miraculous healing/recovery - I'm figuring in the ep where the alien stabbed him - that Jack was basically hovering on death's doorstep while waiting for Gwen (don't get me started on her!) to finish disabling the alien tech - so when he pulled off the alien sword - he 'healed' instantly cause basically he should have been dead from the wound