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We are the Captain's Jack
Sparrow and Harkness
Created on 2006-05-01 16:10:22 (#10148717), last updated 2006-05-07
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A charming rogue who seems to flirt with everyone he meets, Jack had many adventures through time and space on his own before he began to travel with the Doctor. He was a Time Agent for a period, possibly the origin of his claimed rank of "Captain". He is obviously militarily trained, quite capable on his own and of using and constructing a variety of weaponry as well as possessing familiarity with advanced technology. He works well with the Doctor and Rose as part of a smoothly functioning TARDIS crew, and follows the Doctor's orders easily and willingly
The Doctor's companion Rose first met Jack during the London Blitz in 1941, where he was posing as an American volunteer in the Royal Air Force. Rose and the Doctor had come to that time and place in pursuit of an alien cylinder that had crashed on Earth. Rose had accidentally hitched a ride on a barrage balloon and was about to fall to her death when Jack rescued her with his ship's tractor beam. Jack's ship — a stolen time ship of Chula design — was capable of concealing itself by turning invisible, and included in its systems nanogenes, which could treat wounds.
While flirting with Rose, who was also attracted to him, Jack explained that he was a former Time Agent who left the organisation after discovering that two years of his memory had been removed, and going in search of them. Mistaking Rose and the Doctor for Time Agents as well, he tried to pass off the cylinder as an abandoned alien warship with a view to selling it to them. In reality, the cylinder was a hollow and empty medical vessel — or so he believed. However, it was filled with billions of nanogenes, which began transforming everything they came into contact with (The Empty Child).
Jack assisted Rose and the Doctor in deactivating the nanogenes, but lost his own ship when he transported a German bomb on board to save the others from being killed by it. The TARDIS managed to rescue him before the bomb blew up his vessel, and he was taken on board as the newest member of the crew (The Doctor Dances).
It became apparent that Jack was (at least) bisexual, an orientation which the Doctor pointed out was more common in the 51st century, when mankind would deal with multiple alien species and sexuality would become more flexible. In Boom Town he flirted with the Doctor in front of Mickey, and the Doctor played along.
In Bad Wolf Jack became the first regular character in the programme's history to appear naked on screen (not counting the Third Doctor's shower scene in Spearhead from Space and Sergeant Benton at the end of The Time Monster), albeit discreetly shielded by strategically placed props. However, the BBC vetoed the production team's original intention of showing Jack's buttocks. In The Parting of the Ways Jack kissed both Rose and the Doctor good-bye on the mouths, the latter being the first such same-sex kiss in the programme's history.
Jack organised the defence of the Game Station against the Daleks in The Parting of the Ways to give the Doctor enough time to construct a Delta Wave projector. With the rest of his volunteer squad killed, Jack was the last to be exterminated, facing down the Dalek guns with quiet defiance rather than the traditional screaming deaths of Dalek victims. Although Rose brought him back to life while she was suffused with the power of the time vortex, neither the Doctor nor Rose (whose memory was affected) seemed aware of his resurrection and left the Game Station in the TARDIS, leaving Jack behind.
(This Bio was borrowed from the lovely people at Wikipedia)
Captain Jack Sparrow
Captain Jack Sparrow commands the legendary ship named the Black Pearl. In some versions of the script, it is said that Jack was a cartographer before he became a pirate, and this was how he discovered the location of the Isla de Muerta.
About ten years prior to the start of the film, while searching for a legendary cache of Aztec gold, his crew mutinied and marooned him on an island with a pistol containing a single shot (allowing the deserted an opportunity to kill himself rather than die slowly from starvation, according to some versions of real-life pirate codes). Sparrow escaped, however, and went looking for revenge against the leader of the mutiny: His former First Mate, Barbossa. Sparrow kept the pistol and shot for the purpose of killing Barbossa.
While imprisoned, Sparrow meets Will Turner, the son of "Bootstrap Bill" Turner (who was the lone holdout from the mutiny, an action that cost him his un-life). Sparrow, familiar with the legend of a "heathen curse" that has since struck the crew of the Black Pearl, knows Turner's child is the only one who can break the curse, and sees Will as the means to get back command of his ship. Turner, though fiercely disapproving of piracy, agrees to go with Sparrow to Tortuga to find a ship and crew and sail to Isla de Muerta to track down the Pearl and rescue Will's love interest, Miss Elizabeth Swann—kidnapped from Port Royal by Barbossa (after she identified herself as "Elizabeth Turner") in order to reverse the curse.
Sparrow's most obvious physical characteristic is a slightly drunken stagger, accompanied by random flailing hand gestures that make him look unfocused (or possibly slightly ataxic). Attributed to the heat stroke he was rumored to have suffered while marooned—he actually spent that time cavorting with the rum runners who helped him escape and was unlikely to have suffered anything worse than a severe hangover—Sparrow's gestures are believed to be a ploy to help keep his enemies off-guard. His perpetual drunkenness could also lead to his tendency to slur his speech.
While atypical for a pirate, Sparrow is also known for his altruistic nature; he often puts himself in harm's way to save other people, most notably Will and Elizabeth. The film's script suggests Jack's kind nature is part of the reason why his crew mutinied—when Jack offers a nonviolent way to find a piece of the cursed Aztec gold on the Navy ship Interceptor, Barbossa claims, "Jack, that's exactly the attitude that lost you the Pearl. People are easier to search when they're dead." Additionally, he appears highly adept at employing game theory to achieve his ends.
At the end of the first film, Sparrow is once again Captain of the Black Pearl.
(This Bio was borrowed from the lovely people at Wikipedia)
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