21st May 2005 (at a little past 18:30!)

[swordznsorcery]

I am a bad, bad fan. I'd been planning all year to do something when the 21st May ticked around, but everything's been so crazy lately that I forgot. And now it's been and gone, and I am so, so sorry, Jack. Believe it or not (sometimes it seems like it, sometimes it definitely doesn't), the 21st was the tenth anniversary of the first screening of "The Empty Child" - the tenth anniversary of the day that Captain Jack Harkness made his debut. I have never really been happy with New Who, I admit. It usually pleases me well enough whilst it's on, but once it's over I rarely rewatch it, and don't often remember what it was about. I didn't really like the Ninth Doctor; I hated the Tenth, and came to hate Rose too in his company; I couldn't stand Donna Noble; and John Simms' Master was worse than the whole lot of them combined. And then some. But Jack... Doctors aside, Jack's the best thing to happen to the show since Ian and Barbara. And I'm sorry that I didn't celebrate your anniversary properly, Jack. It's nothing personal. As a consolation prize, here's my favourite Jack fanvid, from years ago, by somebody named Senmurv. I love it.

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So happy tenth, Captain Jack. I miss you and your swishy coat, and your smile and your indiscriminate flirting. You know, ten years on, and swashbuckling gay/bi/othersexual heroes are still in pretty short supply - basically there's still just Jack, and that's more than a little bit rubbish. He's getting lonely, television. Isn't it time that we gave him a friend?