Because thinking about it, then Jack can also be seen as Torchwood's ultimate victim. They recruited him, made him into their agent, and then after a hundred years put him in charge... Looking at Suzie, we see what just a few years could do. Multiply it, and you get Jack, Torchwood's very own monster:
That's very well put.
I've been trying to put this into words since Fragments (and again after Asylum), how Jack managed to (mentally) survive for a century in Torchwood partly by never entirely stopping to see himself as their victim (which I think comes out in episodes like Meat and Reset, when he suddenly completely identifies with the aliens, once they're the helpless victims of someone else's exploitation), even while he worked for them, found people he liked or even loved there, and in the end they became the closest thing to a family he had in all this time; even while he completely internalised their aims and methods to a level I don't think he really was aware of, or chose to ignore, until CoE.
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That's very well put.
I've been trying to put this into words since Fragments (and again after Asylum), how Jack managed to (mentally) survive for a century in Torchwood partly by never entirely stopping to see himself as their victim (which I think comes out in episodes like Meat and Reset, when he suddenly completely identifies with the aliens, once they're the helpless victims of someone else's exploitation), even while he worked for them, found people he liked or even loved there, and in the end they became the closest thing to a family he had in all this time; even while he completely internalised their aims and methods to a level I don't think he really was aware of, or chose to ignore, until CoE.