Talking about the new season of Torchwood the creator and Executive Producer, Russel T. Davies, has revealed a huge spoiler about the show.
On a day when nobody dies, in a new interview with AOL, Davies reveals that Captain Jack Harkness can. Yes, that’s right Torchwood fans – Jack is mortal.
“Well he’s literally, physically different. He’s mortal. Everyone else is immortal, he’s mortal. It’s the biggest switch in the show, which we did in order to give us new insights into Jack …I [there can be] a great passivity and inertia when it comes to characters on shows that are successful — they keep coming back and they keep being the same. I’d much rather change them.
You’ve got a great cast, you’ve got great writers, why keep doing the same old stuff? We should all move into new areas. Look where we are with this strange, weird, hybrid Welsh-American show. We couldn’t have started with this, because it’s too odd. It’s a rolling stone that’s gathered moss. And that’s come from pushing and changing all the time. I love where we did end up, which has odd flavors and tastes sometimes, but here we are.
It’s part of the story, but the greatest thing you can do is offer a new look into the character. It’s not fundamentally altering the character, it’s fundamentally altering the rules — the character stays the same, that’s the glorious thing. [The idea is to] put them in situations where there are new rules, new trials, new victories, new losses, and see who they are, that’s the point. That’s what they’re there for, these fictional people.”
But would they really kill Captain Jack? It would certainly seem that way, as Davies adds, “It’s very hard to prove he’s mortal without killing him, so that’s going to be interesting. Some clever things to come.”
Torchwood: Miracle Day airs on July 8th on Starz.
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