Photo: BBC Worldwide
It was Saturday night's episode of Torchwood that, when I first saw it a year ago, made me start obsessing over John Barrowman and this show. In "Captain Jack Harkness," Barrowman -- who up until this point we've known as the mysterious Captain Jack Harkness -- meets the man from whom he borrowed his name, once upon a 1941 blitz.
But it gets better! In this trapped-in-time episode, Jack (the Barrowman version) not only gets to know his namesake, and we get to know more about how the name change happened, Jack and Jack have the world's fastest and most heart-breaking love affair. I'm not kidding in the slightest here, kids. Heart=break.
From Captain Jack's, uh, "log" on the BBC America site, still more existential angst:
What if Owen hadn't opened the rift, and we'd been stuck there? Would I have let history carry on, let Jack die? That would be the right thing, the best thing to do. Saving him might have completely messed up the course of history. But sometimes you don't care, you want to break the rules of time and space, throw everything into chaos and to hell with the consequences, just to save someone you love.
The episode airs again next Saturday, just before the season finale. (If you just want to watch the tragic-romantic make-out session at the end, you can thank the kids at YouTube and enjoy the highlight reel.)
Previously > Extra Barrowman action
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