he might've gotten there just in time to see the TARDIS leave him *again.*
Damn, I didn't think of that! That would have been even nastier!
I did try to give the impression that he'd only just missed the TARDIS - in the first draft, the old guy in Victorian clothes was more obviously Dickens, but words had to be cut.
I'm not sure what's worse: that he doesn't think he'll live to see the Doctor again or that he's yet to figure out what's happened to him.
Yeah, exactly. It only just occurred to me that he didn't know he was immortal till the shot-through-the-head thing, so he really wouldn't expect to live until the last 20th century! Yet another devastating blow for poor old Jack.
Bet he whooped for joy when he did find out he was immortal!
*Off to post this to comms - been out all night at rehearsal*
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Damn, I didn't think of that! That would have been even nastier!
I did try to give the impression that he'd only just missed the TARDIS - in the first draft, the old guy in Victorian clothes was more obviously Dickens, but words had to be cut.
I'm not sure what's worse: that he doesn't think he'll live to see the Doctor again or that he's yet to figure out what's happened to him.
Yeah, exactly. It only just occurred to me that he didn't know he was immortal till the shot-through-the-head thing, so he really wouldn't expect to live until the last 20th century! Yet another devastating blow for poor old Jack.
Bet he whooped for joy when he did find out he was immortal!
*Off to post this to comms - been out all night at rehearsal*