2007-01-03 03:15:22 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television
The title "Torchwood" is an anagram of "Doctor Who".
Jack is a time traveller and confidence trickster from the 51st century, he first appeared in the episode The Empty Child and remained for the rest of the 2005 series as the third known companion of the Ninth Doctor.
His departure from the Doctor's company, however, was in traumatic circumstances; this, and his unseen return to modern-day Earth, appears to have changed him once more. Less gregarious and with a darker tone to his life, in his leadership role at the Torchwood Institute.
The first episode of Torchwood, Everything Changes, explains that the Cardiff branch is Torchwood Three; the Torchwood Institute in London, destroyed during the Dalek/Cybermen invasion, was Torchwood One, the second is a small office in Glasgow staffed by a "very strange man", and that the fourth is simply missing. Torchwood bases seem to be built on time rifts or faults.
Before meeting the Doctor, it is known that Jack had used a different name and been in a war against "the worst creatures imaginable", where had witnessed the death of his best friend. Jack has also operated as a torturer for some time before assuming the identity of one Captain Jack Harkness who had perished in the second phase of The Blitz.
Why he uses another name is still to be explained.
Now at the end of the series it appeares he has went away with another Doctor.
Great Program, cant wait for the new Doctor who series
2007-01-03 03:18:18 · answer #1 · answered by brian h 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think its because as you know Jack was in Doctor Who first and has travelled with the Doctor, know being a part of Torchwood, there were so many bases planted around the uk, both of the ones in london have been destroyed and a couple have mysteriously disappeared, so cardiff seems to be the only one left. Also it lies on a split in time, thats why so many things end up there.
hah
well thats just my theory
2007-01-03 05:36:49 · answer #2 · answered by han 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I reckon that in the 3rd series of Doctor Who, the Doctor will return to that space station, picking up Jack again. It may then be that he is then dropped off in Cardiff when he finishes his cameo role in the new Doctor Who series.
Just an idea I have had, although Im not so sure now that he has gone off with the Doctor at the end of this series.
All I know is that is in about 3-4 of the new Doctor Who series.
2007-01-08 08:46:39 · answer #3 · answered by Grem 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-19 10:02:47 · answer #4 · answered by barn 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ummm, no-one really knows, I think its because that's where the time rift is, cos it moved from London after last episode of Doctor from last series. I think he wanted to meet torchwood or something like that, and just ended up leading them.
Who cares how he got there, just thank god he is there
Mmmmm, jack is soo hot.
2007-01-03 03:20:40 · answer #5 · answered by bezza 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just one of the many Torchwood bases around UK.
Perhaps he was head-hunted...
2007-01-07 08:46:45 · answer #6 · answered by Shaky 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it was mentioned, but they did tal;k about there being several "regional" centres, and the reason for Cardiff was some kind of rift in the fabric of space-time (as per bloomin' usual!)
2007-01-03 03:36:19 · answer #7 · answered by mookvey 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's never explained. And the series was a great disappointment anyway - sucked big time!
2007-01-03 03:27:00 · answer #8 · answered by agneisq 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was never really explained, and also how did he end up with the Doctor's "spare" hand?
2007-01-03 03:19:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He got tricked into going.
2007-01-03 03:19:00 · answer #10 · answered by Osunwole Adeoyin 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋