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Originally Posted by PTeppic  Just done it. "End of the World" doesn't make any commitment either way: they simply meet, apparently for the first time. There's no recognition from Boe.
In "New Earth" there is clearly a recognition at having apparently met for the second time. However, Novice Hame refers to the Face's people as Boe-Kind, though of course it might just be legend. Later, when the Face speaks of learning something from the Doctor, it seems very much at being some he has JUST learned, not something he's been treasuring for millennia.
Would be a great question for RTD at an interview though: when did he/TPTB really come up with the idea of making Jack the Face of Boe. |
Well - I just watched a repeat of "Utopia" and found a slight glitch. Martha discovers the Professors watch and runs to tell the doctor. Jack is there too and the three discuss it. Martha says "Remember what the Face of Boe said: you are not alone" and Jack is standing right next to her and doesn't batter an eyelid! At this point in time, Jack is not aware that he supposedly evolves into the Face of Boe but he has been called that prior to ever meeting the doctor as we discover in "The Last of the Timelords". Surely Martha's exclamation would provoke some kind of reaction - how does this person who he has only just met have knowledge of a name he used to be called in the past!? Why does he not react to this?
I'll tell you why - at the writing of this episode, RTD did NOT know that Jack was going to be Boe. When RTD plans a series, he makes damn sure that references, however small, are evident and can be connected when people rewatch the episodes. He did no such thing here - I now firmly believe that RTD made the Jack/Boe revelation as a kind of additional shock to the end of the final episode of the series. If he had had the idea earlier on, it would have prevented such continuity errors.