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What, Torchwood 19mumble couldn't have kept him from going back to the front? Like, a "top secret but crucial service to our country" kind of discharge? That sucks!
Well, past!Torchwood wouldn't have known what happened to him when he got sent to the front. There was no reason to keep him at the hospital. Once they found out, they could have amended the orders at that point not to send him back, but that would be messing with the time stream, and that's a no no. Plus, they don't know if there was something about Tommy that would make it happen again.
Plus, they don't know if there was something about Tommy that would make it happen again.
I want to think that Tommy's experiences with Torchwood (and he didn't have his memories erased!) may have created a wild card effect. His experiences there affect how he reacts once he's back in 1918. And maybe he did something different after he went back.
I think there's a fatal flaw in that line of reasoning, which is that Tommy didn't live linearly. That Tommy-after-he-went-back always had memories of Torchwood.
Which actually raises another question: How much effect did Tosh's answers to his questions have on what he did after he went back? She left him thinking he'd die in battle. Did he try to avoid that?
I think there's a fatal flaw in that line of reasoning, which is that Tommy didn't live linearly. That Tommy-after-he-went-back always had memories of Torchwood.
But he didn't remember. He didn't remember what to do with the key thingy and he didn't know who Tosh was.
Which was weird, since (after what Jack said) I was expecting Past Torchwood to DO something to his memories -- instead, they seemed to just get replaced automatically once he stepped through the barrier.
She left him thinking he'd die in battle. Did he try to avoid that?
perhaps that's what caused the court marshal. He thought that he was going to die in battle, so he tried to avoid it, and got dinged for cowardice.
But he didn't remember. He didn't remember what to do with the key thingy and he didn't know who Tosh was.
Jack said something about losing his short term memory in the rift.
instead, they seemed to just get replaced automatically once he stepped through the barrier.
Maybe because he was in the right time, and he had technically never lived through the 20th century?
Ow. That makes my head hurt. Especially since the real reason is probably "He forgot because we needed him to."
Jack's line about the British soldiers who were shot for cowardice is really painful, though.
Whew, that takes care of two of my three appointment network TV shows.
I momentarily had thoughts about the weird quasi-religious parallels in SCC. Something somewhat blasphemous about the protectiveness of both Marys to Jesus and how that sort of parallels Sarah and Cameron to John-as-prophet. But it probably breaks down horribly, because I never get very far with these sorts of things and my biblical knowledge is crap. Plus, killing. Lots of it. And robots. And time travel.
Oh well, it sounded interesting when I started.
I wonder how good Cameron is at chess. Maybe she'll help the Japanese team.
