Anyone who reads fan fiction knows that you will put up with a lot of terrible crap to read stories about the characters you love doing the stuff you want them to do. But I always looked at Torchwood as televised Doctor Who fan fiction starring one of my favorite characters. The writing wasn’t great in those first few episodes, sure, and there is plenty to raise an arched eyebrow at in the characterizations and choices made by Davies and Chris Chibnall, the show runner. Yes, I should have known better than to ask such a question.Īt first, I was not as down on Torchwood as a whole as some other Doctor Who fans. I love Jack, I love Doctor Who, and I love fluid sexuality. With this promising outlook, I jumped into watching Torchwood with no hesitation and a ton of positive feelings. We need to start mixing things up, rather than thinking, ‘This is a gay character and he’ll only ever go off with men’.” I want to knock down the barriers so we can’t define which of the characters is gay. “Without making it political or dull, this is going to be a very bisexual programme. At least one media outlet described all of the characters as bisexual, and in an interview with the Gay Times, Davies specifically laid out his vision as regarded sexuality : My excitement about Jack increased tenfold when I started hearing more about the spin–off show Russell T. Even in supposed LGBT–friendly media, which is mostly about the G with the odd L thrown in. All too often mainstream media does just that. As a person of fluid sexuality myself (I usually identify as bisexual), I appreciate representation that doesn’t marginalize or Other people like me. I’ve paid dearly for this love on many occasions.įor a long time I counted this price as worth it because I was happy to see a person of fluid sexuality on the screen who is a leading man, an object of sexual desire, and a fully fleshed out character. Toward the end of “The Parting Of The Ways” when Jack kisses both Rose and the Doctor, he solidified his status as one of my favorite characters and I knew I’d follow him anywhere… even to Torchwood. He’s an omnisexual man of the 51st century, ready to “shag anybody as long as they’re gorgeous enough,” as Toshiko Sato later puts it. He doesn’t even restrict himself to humans. Jack doesn’t restrict himself to monosexuality. One of the best moments in any episode of Doctor Who is in “The Doctor Dances” when the Doctor explains to Rose that their new friend, Captain Jack Harkness, is “flexible” with his sexuality.
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