3 CoE vid recs + more Jack meta.

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All The Pretty Little Horses by hollywoodgrrl
Summary: Jack Harkness. Torchwood's Pied Piper.
This is most definitely Torchwood’s ‘Handlebars’. And also the most hauntingly and harrowingly beautiful illustration of Jack’s “Began to like it. And look what I became.”
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Requiem – The Show Must Go On. (Moulin Rouge) by thrace_adams.
Summary: Jack Must Go On.
Jack-centric CoE vid with a definite J/I slant (but don’t let that put anyone off). The vid absolutely does the song justice!
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A Blip in Time by di_br.
Summary: Ianto has a few things he needs to say before the end.
A CoE Jack/Ianto vid using Ianto’s speech from ‘The Dead Line’. Absolutely gorgeous. Bring tissues.



‘All The Pretty Little Horses’ really made me think, so here is a slightly expanded version of my feedback (with all the flailing taken out):

I very deliberately said that this vid is Torchwood’s ‘Handlebars’, rather than Jack’s, even though Jack is very much the focal point, and (to a great extent) Jack = Torchwood.

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:

Ianto: You like to think you're a hero. But you're the biggest monster of all.

What all this made me think of was the very last scene in ‘Damage’ (AtS 5.11):

Spike: She's...one of us now. She's a monster.
Angel: She's an innocent victim.
Spike: So were we... once upon a time.
Angel: Once upon a time.

The thing is, that Jack’s capacity for monstrousness was hinted at right at the very beginning:

Jack: Two years of my life. No idea what I did. Your friend over there doesn't trust me. And for all I know... he's right not to.

Most of all, when it comes to CoE and Jack and the creation of monsters, these are the lines that come back to me - again from AtS:

Angel: It was art. The destruction of a human being."

We watched the destruction of Jack. And it was art.

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You've not seen it? Goodness. You can find it here:

Handlebars by flummery. Summary: I'm the Doctor. Look me up.

I swear I got actual chills the first time I saw it. It quite simply *is* the Tenth Doctor.