Dr who why is jack immortal

All the alien technology combined was enough the contact the Doctor. In the Government destroyed Torchwood three hoping to kill Jack as he was one of the few people that knew of the alien threat.

After losing Torchwood three, Ianto and his grandson Jack decided to leave Earth. Jack was last seen on an alien bar where the 10th Doctor visited him briefly. No copyright infringement is intended. Captain Jack Harkness The 51st century Jack was born in the 51st century.

The big question about immortality is how you get to live forever. Torchwood season 2 shows this when Jack uses a resurrection glove to bring Owen Harper Burn Gorman back to life. Unfortunately, Owen's "immortality" is a half-life in which his wounds won't heal and he can't eat, sleep, or even breathe.

As Owen himself tells Jack, "You get to live forever, I have to die forever. Since Jack looks like John Barrowman, it stands to reason that his immortality enables him to heal from injuries pretty well — but can he do it without dying and coming back to life? In a recent Reddit thread , fans tried to figure out how his healing process works. Some believe that he does.

Others point to the fact that Jack's a fixed point in time , a human version of the noted Whoniverse concept of a moment that can't be changed, no matter what.

In the episode "Gridlock," a character reveals that a woman who breathed in the exhaust for twenty minutes experienced swelling of her head to 50 feet. Jack appears in series 12 episode 5, "Fugitive of the Judoon," and he's attacked by nanogenes, the subatomic robots capable of changing someone's body introduced in "The Empty Child," the same episode that introduced Jack. Doctor Who is a show rich with meaning and rife with poetic callbacks, so having Jack physically altered by a combination of these creatures and the exhaust from the place where his existence ends would bring his character full-circle.

He says in "Fugitive" that " nanogenes are always after me, " so it seems very likely that this attack is the start of his transformation early in the third decade of the 21st century. Taking into consideration all the possibilities for Jack's mutation, the most likely reason for his final form is tied to his ultimate resting place. The exhaust in New New York developed sometime between 4,,, and 5,,, Jack's head survived the nanogenes, growing several times its original size sometime in those 65 years, transforming Doctor Who's beloved Jack into the Face of Boe.

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