Colonel Jack Harkness is a fictional character played by John Barrowman in the British longevity science fiction series "Doctor Who" and its derivative series "Torchwood Group".
His first appearance was in the 2005 edition of Doctor Who's "Children of Nothingness". And as the third known partner of the ninth doctor, appeared in the remaining 2005 episodes. In the established script, Jack is set as a bisexual time traveler and a rebel from the 51st century, the first publicly non-heterosexual character in the history of Doctor Who.
Jack's real name is unknown, he is usually called "Colonel Jack" or "Colonel". After being resurrected from the dead in the ending episode of the 2005 series, Jack has the ability to immortality. This change made him a fearless but responsible hero in his own series, and more or less a gratifying backstop in Doctor Who.
Character
Jack is a charming "rascal" from the 51st century. He will probably flirt with everyone he meets.
As a station crew who has gone through several historical periods (including past and future), before encountering dr, Jack went through many adventures alone. Producer and lead author Russell T. Davies believes that Jack's trip together with dr has made Jack a completely new one. It has transformed Jack from a Confucian into a self-sacrificing hero.
His parting from the doctor, no matter what he said, was a heartbreaking thing. Unknown, he returned to the modern earth and waited for a hundred years to meet the doctor again. These things seem to make Jack have a deeper change. Little social life and accustomed to the darkness of life, finally, after meeting gwen cooper and protecting her under his wings, Jack, as the leader of the Torchwood team, became a little gentle. In "Torchwood Group", he occasionally falls into the exploration and meditation of the rest of his life and religious beliefs with a person's desire to die. When asked by dr if he was willing to die, Jack explained that after witnessing the indomitable spirit of mankind that dr often praises, his suicide preference is much smaller.
Jack is bisexual. The doctor pointed out that this kind of bisexual orientation was common in the 51st century after experiencing multi-sex aliens and sexual behavior became more flexible.
He was the first to compare "heterosexuality" with anything else.
He was a homosexual. But in the series, we say that he is bisexual. Because in the play, this character often has sex with aliens who have a human appearance, and has sex with all kinds of male-male, female-female, etc. Travel buddies
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open. This bisexual relationship makes the two evaluations of "multiple sexual orientation" and "omnipotent sexual orientation" often used in this role, although Jack himself only treats "human"-shaped creatures (humans, robots and Humanoid aliens) have "sex" interests. Jb once described Jack as gay and continued to discuss homosexuality in a talk show. Jack himself is more inclined to describe his sexual orientation as "flexible". He saw the reaction of his teammates gwen and carys when they kissed, and he understood his skeptical attitude towards pure heterosexual relationships. The writer Steven Moffat said that Jack had never considered his own sexual orientation.
Jack is a character who combines compassion and cruelty at the same time. In some scenes of the Torchwood team, Jack is never merciful in killing a creature of any species. When he reunited with the doctor in the third season, Zeng was warned to be "bold" by the doctor when he pointed a gun at others and contemplatedly bit the master's neck. In several other episodes, especially when it is related to death, aging and loneliness, Jack showed his sympathy and care, and even used lying to relieve pain. This kind of humanity and care on the edge of death led to his firm existential philosophy.
Jack always lists his rank as colonel. In the two episodes of the dance of Void Child and Doctor, the rank and epaulettes on his coat are squadron captain (British Air Force Major), a position equivalent to a major in the Royal Air Force (although he explained that he was sent by the U.S. military) To assist combatants). In subsequent episodes, it was explained that Jack was leading an aviation squadron, which may have eliminated the misunderstanding of the Royal Air Force rank system on the author's side, but an aviation squadron is too low for a colonel. In a flashback to Lahore's "Little World" in 1909, Jack appeared to be a British army colonel wearing a three-bar standard.
After the acceptance of comments and culture shock
appeared in the first season of Doctor Who’s rebroadcast, the role of jack was incredibly sought after by fans, so that rtd and jg had to make a mystery tailored around this role. Dr.'s spin-off drama, Torchwood group. Time Magazine commented that the undeniable success of this role made jb a "national treasure." Jack’s mysterious temperament partly comes from his sexual orientation, bullying heroism and sexual desire. Following the success of the first season, the re-appearance of the character in the third season of Doctor Who has become a popular hit in the mainstream media.
In the media, Jack was described as "the first open gay couple" and "a pretty good bisexual." Jack's fame is largely due to the mainstream way of "demand is reality" in his performance of bisexual episodes in science fiction dramas. Jack's opening up of sexual behavior has instead created a new world, and "same sex" and "bisexual" are often used as the symbol words of this character in certain scenes. In the episode of "Separation", Jack not only kissed Rose on his lips but also kissed dr, who was the first gay kiss in the history of the show. Except for the first bold use of the lgb (laser guided bomb?) actor, this role did not cause any controversy, although there were still some controversies when Jack first appeared on stage. This character who appeared in prime time on television has sparked a discussion about the nature of homosexuality in various circles of society and on different occasions where this issue is usually ignored. Channel4.com lists Jack as a positive role model for homosexual or bisexual teenagers to learn from. This is something that has never been broadcast to the audience in a few years, and has led to a great cultural tolerance for homosexuals.
When talking about the importance of his role, borrowman said:
I did watch a lot of science fiction dramas, it was a very pure artistic conception. When a lot of material was imported from the United States, I thought that gay, lesbian, and bisexuality were too suppressed, especially in science fiction dramas, and I was not ready for it. A heterosexual person wrote These are absolutely very courageous, masculine behaviors. I think the Torchwood group is probably the first episode with bisexual heroes, and the sexual orientations of other characters are also very casual. We are the beacon in the dark.
Character history
Before he met dr, Jack’s life was very chaotic. There were still many mysteries in his past, and the Doctor Who and Torchwood team were revealing these secrets little by little.
Early history
In the 51st century, when Jack was still young, he lived in a place called Boeshane Peninsula. He was the first of them to be selected to join the newly formed Time Agent organization. His beauty has made him a trademark of time agents, and this reputation has earned him the reputation of "the face of boe".
In the episode of "Colon Jack Harkness", Jack said he was convinced that when he was still young, he and his best friend had taken an adventure together, fighting what he thought was the "worst creature imaginable". Later they were captured and became two prisoners in the war, and his unnamed friend was tortured to death because he was weaker than Jack. Jack was released after being watched. Jack once said that he tortured himself.
It was revealed that in Lahore in 1909, Jack was a colonel in the Indian Army and he led a team of 15 people. These people were later killed by this creature for running over and causing the death of a child who was chosen to be the "chosen child". A letter saved on the Torchwood Group website shows that this happened when Jack was a rebel and robbed the diamond mine. The letter also pointed out that the girl's death, and the resulting death of the jack team, occurred in January of that year. This kind of thing happened again when Jack was trapped in the 20th century. In "Void Children", Jack revealed that he was a time agent before he ran away to become a rebel because the time agent organization stole his memory for two years. In 1941, Jack faked the identity of Colonel Jack Harkness who had just died in the blitzkrieg.
After getting used to the name Jack, he fell in love with a 17-year-old girl named estelle cole. He claimed that they fell in love at first sight at Astoia in London, but had to separate after she went to the Women's Marines. Later in the same year, Jack left with his two Time Agent colleagues, completely disappearing from Estelle's life.
Meeting the Doctor
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Dr.'s travel companion Rose met Jack for the first time in the London Blitz in 1941. At that time he was still an American volunteer supporting the Royal Air Force. At that time, Rose and the doctor were tracking an alien cylinder that had fallen on the earth. Rose accidentally climbed onto the air defense blocking balloon and went through an adventure on it. Just when she was about to fall and die, Jack used the drag beam on his spacecraft to rescue Rose. Jack's spacecraft-a stolen Chula time spacecraft-has the ability to be invisible. Its system is equipped with nanogenes, which can treat wounds.
After mistakenly thinking that Rose and the Doctor were time agents, Jack tried to disguise the cylinder as an alien spaceship and wanted to take the opportunity to buy it. Jack believed that the cylinder was just an empty wartime mobile medical spacecraft, but he did not expect that it was filled with millions of Naronzis. And they are beginning to regroup everyone they meet. Jack helped Rose and the doctor disperse Narronzis, but in order to save the doctor, they intercepted the German shells (drag beam) and placed them on their own spacecraft. Before the spaceship was destroyed by a shell, the doctor drove tardis to rescue Jack, and he also became a new member of the tds.
In the episode of "The Great Wolf", Jack appeared naked on the screen. At that time, the gynoids, robots trin-e and zu-zana were using a disassembly and reshaping machine to strip him for a stylish packaging. The film crew carefully set up props at all possible dew points. In any case, BBC can't allow the creative team's original plan to make Jack show off his hips on the screen. In the episode "Separation", Jack kissed Rose and Doctor goodbye with his lips at the same time.
In "Separation", Jack organized the people on the game station to resist the attack of the daleks, and bought time for the doctor to assemble the delta ray machine. As the members of his resistance squad were killed little by little, he became the last one to be "destroyed". With contempt, he fell under dalek's gun resolutely. Soon after, after Rose absorbed the energy of the time vortex and survived, Jack was resurrected by Rose with this energy. As a result, jack has become an "established fact on the timeline", which cannot be eliminated, and thus has immortality.
In the "Children's Charity Project Special", Rose suggested to the newly reborn tenth doctor that they should go back to pick up Jack. The doctor responded that Jack has “had a lot of work to do to rebuild the earth”. The doctor later explained that Jack had become immortal and that he shouldn't exist. As a time lord, he should leave Jack instinctively. Jack later compared this to unreasonable discrimination against humans.
Producer rtd stated in Doctor Who magazine that the reason Jack stayed was that they wanted to understand the impact of Dr.'s rebirth (at the end of the "Separation" episode) on Rose, especially when Jack took a step towards his own rebirth. "Stride".
Immortal
Jack, as the protagonist of the Torchwood team. After being abandoned by dr on the Satellite 5, he used a time agent equipment called a time modem, hoping to return to the 21st century. Unexpectedly, back in 1869, the time modem also burned out. He found himself alone and helpless and had to wait until he met a doctor who knew him. In 1892, he was shot through his heart, and later realized that he would not die, although at the same time he was getting old very slowly. Served in World War II and World War II (the second experience of World War II). After being killed several times, he finally had the opportunity to join the government's Torchwood team. He has been there since at least 1959. During this time, he I went to see the growing rose tyler a few times in the 90s and waited patiently for another encounter with dr.
In 2007, in the spin-off drama Torchwood team, Jack had been reborn and became the head of the third branch of Torchwood in Cardiff. Jack is very careful to protect what the doctor left behind, including the doctor's hand that was cut off by the sycorax leader in the "Christmas Invasion". This hand was kept in a jar at the Torchwood team stronghold, where his elite team was stationed. Jack uses this hand as a "Doctor Detector", which allows him to know his arrival when a doctor who is suitable for him comes to refuel Tardis.
His former colleagues commented that although they had worked with him for a while, they knew very little about him, including whether he was gay or bisexual. Owen even discovered that they didn't know anything about him, even who he was. Later, Toshiko discovered that even his real name was not Jack Harkness.
Slowly, Jack's colleagues discovered more about Gwen Cooper during the year he was hired. She learned that Jack could not die, and together with others witnessed Jack's resurrection on several occasions. His immortal ability was clearly confirmed after Owen shot Jack out of rage. On two occasions, he showed them the ability to transfer life energy through kisses-the first time was carys, the second time was ianto jones.
Jack's character became more and more clear to his friends. He indicated that he would kill Ianto with a pistol, if he hadn't killed Lisa, Ianto's half-human and half-cyberman girlfriend. Gwen thought he would never use a lethal weapon. The same situation happened in the episode of "Small World", he acquiesced in Jasmine to join "fairies". Because he knows that if he doesn’t do this, it will lead to countless deaths, perhaps even the end of the world. In the same episode, his first love, Estelle Cole-now 80 years old-(who once vowed to be with him for life) was murdered by "fairies" . The team members later witnessed Jack's merciless shooting of the cannibals, followed by the cruel continuous shooting of the Torchwood team-Suzie Costello.
An emerging sideline of the plot is the sexual relationship between Jack and Ianto. He flirted with ianto in the premiere, and acted against ianto in "Female cyberman" and kissed him. In "They've been killing Suzie", Ianto begs Jack directly. When Jack died in the battle against the devil, Ianto mourned the death of his lover as if he had died. He also kissed him passionately and witnessed his resurrection.
The real "Colon Jack Harkness" sees Jack and Toshiko being transported back to the 1940s through an unstable time gap. This episode introduces the real Colonel Jack who was used by Jack from the Torchwood team. In this episode, Jack is the most vividly expressed bisexuality. He fell in love with the real Jack and bid farewell with a fierce kiss when they separated. Subsequently, Jack returned to 2008 through a time gap.
After using his undead life force to survive the demon Abaddon mentioned in the Bible, who feeds on his life (released from the rift by Jack's team and Bilis Manger's conspiracy). Jack's doctor probe reacted. Jack heard the sound of tardis, he ran to the roald dahl plass (cardiff's opera house), and jumped onto the disappearing tardis. Tardis wanted to get rid of him, so he ran all the way for 100,000,000 years. After Jack left, his team was sent to the Himalayas disguised as the master of Prime Minister Harold Saxom.
Afterwards, Jack and the doctor met again and met his new companion Martha. After flirting with Martha, asking about Ross's "death", and some discussions about Jack's immortality, all three of them realized that they were standing at the end of the universe. The master drove the doctor's tardis and escaped. Dr. repaired Jack's time modem and returned to 2008. There, the master has become the prime minister of Britain, Mr. Harold "harry" saxon. They used the time modem to move to a suspended aircraft platform-the viliant. Unexpectedly, the master caught Jack and Doctor. It wasn't until the doctor and martha's plan succeeded and set time back a year ago, when the master just caught them. After the master was defeated, Jack was invited to travel with the doctor all the way. But he refused, and he thought his team needed him more. The doctor then damaged Jack's time machine to prevent another accident.
Jack's nickname when he was young, "the face of boe", (the former name used in the Boeshane Peninsula in the early years), shows that after hundreds of thousands of years of slow aging, jack became the face of boe-one without The head with the body in a huge jar. The producer confirmed this possibility in the media and talk shows.
Merry Hobbies:
Jack is an incredibly passionate person. During his life, he had many sexual relationships and sexual partners. Although he occasionally shows his true romance, most of the time it is just a strong "sexual interest" towards men or women. Estelle Cole
("Small World")
Estelle Cole is Jack's first female first love. They met around 1940 when she was only 16, but in the end he left her.
When she was old and living in Cardiff, they met again. He pretends to be his (jack) son, works as a temporary worker and takes care of her, but she never realizes that they are actually the same person. Before long, he was deeply anguished that she was killed by supernatural forces. It's not clear when Jack met Estelle on his own timeline.
Rose Tyler
Rose Tyler When Jack met Rose, he immediately launched an offensive against her (). He finally gave up after discovering her relationship with the doctor. In "Separation", Jack was afraid that he would never see Rose again, so he kissed her deeply goodbye. He mentioned in "Utopia" that after he returned to the 20th century, he had seen Rose from a distance several times in the 90s.
The Doctor The Doctor-Doctor
and Jack did not come together initially. But as the plot develops, it becomes tighter. The two jokes of flirting in "boom town", the "separation" he thought he would kiss the doctor and rose forever, and the light flirting with the doctor in "Utopia" all showed that the doctor was a "new cheeky" one type". The doctor giggled when he heard this statement. After staying in the Torchwood team for so long, Jack is obviously more eager to see the Doctor again than the other people he loves.
In "Drums", after the doctor inadvertently frustrated Marther, Jack noticed her reaction to the doctor, and Jack asked, "Do you feel the same way?"
When Jack hinted to the doctor that he had feelings for the doctor, the doctor said that they might separate again, and rarely showed a gentle side.
Gwen Cooper Gwen Cooper-
Jack was interested in her from the first sight. And recruited her to join the Torchwood team. "Ghost Machine", in the gun training, Jack's love for her showed signs of slight. And hinted to her a good impression of everything she did for herself.
Although there have been some clues in the relationship, the relationship between them has never produced any results. At the same time, Jack actively
supports her relationship with her boyfriend Max Williams. They kissed at the end of the first episode and the second episode of the Torchwood group. When it comes to the relationship between characters, the poet Eve Myles described this relationship as popular love, and said that although there is no substantial progress, "Jack and Gwen, there is a real relationship between them that will make you look forward to it."
Ianto Jones
Since "everything is changing", Ianto Jones and Jack have maintained a banter and frivolous relationship. For the first time, the two publicly disclosed their relationship in "Killing Suzie". Although there were conflicts in "cyberwoman", "countrycide" and Ianto's mourning for Lisa, their relationship lasted until the episode of "The Last Day", Ianto condoned
Jack's death with tears, and kissed him directly. At that moment he witnessed His resurrection.
Captain Jack Harkness
Colonel Jack Harkness ("Colonel Jack Harkness"), when trapped in 1940, Jack spoofed the man's name and gradually adapted to become the real Colonel Jack Harkness. After aliasing james harper, after realizing that the real jack is gay, he formed a team of real jacks.
In addition to Jack's obvious pursuit and the captive of love, he mentioned various relationships and events that happened with many boy and girl friends in the past, including "one-night stands." He also expressed his willingness to have a relationship with "anyone hot enough." In the play, Jack flirts with many other characters. In dw's "Nothing Children", Jack flirts with Algy, a gay soldier. In "Separation", he flirts with a male programmer and two humanoid robots. In "Day One" of the tw drama, Jack flirts with Carys and kisses him. In "Utopia", Jack flirts with martha jones, a female alien who looks like a human and a worm, and an unknown man. After noticing Jack's hobby of flirting, dr treats every hello Jack said as flirting. Although in fact, it was just Jack introducing himself with a flirting greeting.
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