Looks like David Tennant’s tenth Doctor and John Barrowman’s Captain Jack are set to go on a new adventure together in the Big Finish universe and I can’t wait!
Big Finish has really been delivering the good recently when it comes to Doctor who content and it looks like the 50th Torchwood audio adventure coming in May is set to to be a big one.
In Absent Friends Tennant will join up with Jack and Gareth David-Lloyd’s Ianto Jones and sees the Doctor taking control of Torchwood, which is ironic as it was created to search for him: “On a dark and stormy night in Cardiff, the city is in danger, and the Doctor’s put himself in charge of Torchwood in order to save it. In a sealed recording studio, the voices of the dead have been playing for 17 years. Was it the project of a madman, or is this the site of something terrible? Torchwood has been hunting for the Doctor since 1879. And now they’ve found him. They may regret it.”
“Fans have been asking for this for a long time,” Barrowman said
“Now that it’s okay and it’s been cleared, it’s great to have him on board. There’s an interesting dynamic going on here because Jack still wants to follow him but yet wants to impress on him that he’s still the leader.”
On the adventure, Tennant adds: “Because this isn’t a Doctor Who story, the Doctor doesn’t have to be ahead of everything and saving the day. What’s interesting about this story, from the Doctor’s point of view, is he sort of messes up. It’s a story about the Doctor being a bit imperfect which is nice to see now and again actually.”
Is this the beginning of a Torchwood/Captain Jack renaissance? We can but hope.
In a recent interview with The Mirror, Barrowman said he’d come back to Doctor Who in a heartbeat.
After returning for the New Year’s Day episode, Revolution of the Daleks, it’s possible that the fans will have their memory jogged of just how great a character Jack is.
“There’s no question, I’d say yes,” Barrowman said.
But it seems that Barrowman, like many fans, has a corner of the Doctor Who universe that he would like explored: “I have such joy when I play him and I’d love to play him now and continue to explore other things with him, like how he becomes the Face of Boe, how his relationship with the Doctor develops to that timeline.
“I think he knows and Jack doesn’t reveal, because whenever you see Jack he’s always like ‘Heyyyy Doctor’ or kissing people.
“I think, and this is not a writer’s theory, this is my fan theory, that Jack as the Face of Boe knows that he’s going to die soon and he’s educating and leading the Doctor and the Doctor’s come to him for millennia for advice.
“And Jack knows when he does die there’s a point in time when the Doctor will know – when Jack says ‘they used to call me the Face of Boe’ – that he will realise that’s who it is and he wants that moment.”
And, on top of that, speaking of Torchwood, he’s hoping for a return there too: “I am hoping, and it’s not up to me, it’s up to Chris Chibnall, it’s up to Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner, the people who created Captain Jack, I’m hoping they would do a Torchwood reunion or a show or a limited series.”
This isn’t such a mad idea because fans will recall that in the New Year’s Day episode, at the end Captain Jack stayed on earth and was going to catch up with Gwen, saying: “Gwen Cooper sends her love by the way – says she took out a Dalek with a moped and her son’s boxing gloves! Anyway, I’m gonna stick around on Earth and catch up with her” – that’s Gwen Cooper, played by Eve Myles, left – and this clearly means that, in the modern-day, Jack in on earth and was back with the Torchwood team… if that’s not setting up a potential new Torchwood series I’ll eat my hat.
Captain Jack returns… to Torchwood!
John Barrowman is back as Captain Jack for the 50th monthly Torchwood audio adventure from Big Finish Productions, teaming up with David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor.
It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for – Absent Friends reunites John Barrowman (Arrow, Zero Dark Thirty) with David Tennant (Staged, Broadchurch), as they reprise their iconic TV roles to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the successful Doctor Who spin-off (and more than five years of Torchwood full-cast audio dramas at Big Finish).
On a dark and stormy night in Cardiff, the city is in danger, and the Doctor’s put himself in charge of Torchwood in order to save it.
In a sealed recording studio, the voices of the dead have been playing for 17 years. Was it the project of a madman, or is this the site of something terrible?
Torchwood has been hunting for the Doctor since 1879. And now they’ve found him. They may regret it.
Of bringing the dynamic duo together again, John Barrowman said: “Fans have been asking for this for a long time. Now that it’s okay and it’s been cleared, it’s great to have him on board. There’s an interesting dynamic going on here because Jack still wants to follow him but yet wants to impress on him that he’s still the leader.”
David Tennant added: “Because this isn’t a Doctor Who story, the Doctor doesn’t have to be ahead of everything and saving the day. What’s interesting about this story – from the Doctor’s point of view – is he sort of messes up. It’s a story about the Doctor being a bit imperfect which is nice to see now and again actually.”
Torchwood: Absent Friends also stars Gareth David-Lloyd as Ianto Jones and is now available to pre-order as a collector’s edition CD at £10.99 or on download from the Big Finish website
Marc
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