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[scarfman]

Does Captain Jack ever reference his two missing years after The Doctor Dances, in Doctor Who or in Torchwood? Is there any reason a story resolving that issue couldn't be set between The Doctor Dances and Boomtown?

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[xwingace]

I don't remember him doing so in Who or Torchwood. Not in the episodes with the Ninth Doctor, and then when he gets back with the Tenth, and in Torchwood, he's got other, apparently biger issues. But I could be missing something.

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[pbristow.livejournal.com]

[NODS] No reference to those two years since then. Of course, that line was written by Moffat: Maybe he's saving it up... =:o}

[tiggerallyn.livejournal.com]

RTD said that the missing two years was Moffat's toy to play with.

I don't think it's especially relevant to Jack now; he's vastly older than he was in "The Doctor Dances."

I can definitely buy Jack getting some resolution to the two years issue circa "Boomtown," as it makes Jack's farewell to the ninth Doctor make sense. (Jack says that the Doctor taught him how to be brave, while it's Jack would goes down fighting the Daleks and it's the Doctor who impotently can't do anything. Yeah, that's always bugged me.)

[scarfman]

Davies likes making the Doctor impotent and reliant on the companion(s) for season finales. It's in his comments on Journey's End somewhere, prolly in the Confidential.