Howling:The Blessing IS Jack... sort of.

Not that Jack himself is the Blessing, but considering last season we saw that an arm and a piece of his head could reconnect and rebuild his body... what if that huge gravity blood vessel thing IS Jack? Let's go through this step by step: Therefore, the Blessing is... biologically... Jack. d ● ● ●  18:45, September 3, 2011 (UTC)
 * In Children of Earth, an arm and a piece of Jack's skull were able to rebuild his body. This means some pieces would have to build TOWARDS each other.
 * If the Blessing IS Jack, then his blood moving toward it in Shanghai would let us know that his separated body parts would be naturally drawn toward the largest source on Earth. Currently that's the Blessing. Now here's where it gets interesting.
 * Jack has been physically present on Earth from 27AD until 2010 virtually uninterrupted, and often with multiples (as many as 3) present at the same time. Meaning, the first time he'd have been off planet Earth for an extended period of time... was right after Children of Earth. For about a year.
 * With Jack's blood in Buenos Aires and Argentina, they were now respectively each other's largest source of Jack. So they'd be drawn to each other. And GROW toward each other. A large lifeform now begins to dig under the Earth, meeting at its core. Just before the Miracle, they burn the blood supplies in Argentina and China, because they are no longer necessary, and the evidence needs to be disposed of before the Miracle happens.

Sounds about as plausible as any other theory, but there are a few holes in it. For one thing, whenever Jack heals, even when he blew up, the fom he takes is basically just his normal form. The Blessing obviously looks nothing like him. More importantly, that still doesn't explain how the Blessing caused the Miracle, or why Jack is now mortal. Also, the families have clealy been preparing for this for a long time, and they wouldn't have had anyway to know that Jack was buried for centuries, or that he would kill his grandson and run away from the planet.Icecreamdif 19:47, September 3, 2011 (UTC)

Organic material meeting at (or anywhere near) the Earth's core is unlikely in the extreme. The core is at about the same temperature as the surface of the Sun. Even the mantle would be a bit warm -- that's what comes out of volcanos. The stuff would need to take the long way round and stay in the upper part of the crust. --2.101.60.5 20:10, September 3, 2011 (UTC)

I've been idly wondering if they're going to join up the two shows. Last series in DW we had cracks in the walls/time, a perception filter in Amy's house and something that can't be seen out of the corner of your eye. I don't know if anyone else caught it, but in the trailer for next week's TW, there was a line about 'something you can't see, in the corner of your eye'. This series (which I assume is happening in 2011) has also had Rory be 'killed' several times, and yet he's not dead. We had perception filters and a huge crack in the wall in tonight's episode. And I also read somewhere that they wanted Jack Harkness in this series of DW but it couldn't be done because it clashed with filming TW last year...but might that explain a break in the middle of the broadcast of this series, and filming for it only finishing in July?

It's interesting to think about anyway. 109.150.43.239 20:23, September 3, 2011 (UTC)

Actually, add the fact that this would technically make Jack Harkness himself not the largest source of "Jackness", and a morphic field, and we might have something here... This gives us a rationale behind why Jack is not healing (because the Blood Line is) and why everyone's immortal (because the Blood Line is). The only piece still missing is the motive. Why would someone do this? d ● ● ●  21:34, September 3, 2011 (UTC)
 * A morphic field using this "Blood Line" as the template would grant the entire planet some facet of Jack's immortality (but not his healing factor).
 * Because Jack isn't the "Jackest" source on the planet anymore, technically he would be drawn to it, and likely would lose his immortality as a result. If you cut Jack in half, you wouldn't wind up with two Jacks.  One side would grow, and the other would die.  Likewise, Jack is now the "smaller part" that is not immortal, so long as this Blood Line is still intact.

The stuff about something in the corner of your eye was in this week's episode. The family member in Shanghai was telling Jilly that that's how people felt around the blessing. I doubt that they would want to join the two shows. Torchwood is trying to appeal to a new audience who is not familiar with the show, and Doctor Who generally tries to appeal to children who are not allowed to watch Torchwood. As fo the blessing being Jack, that could work, but there has to be more to it than just Jack's blood trying to join together once Jack left the planet.Icecreamdif 23:35, September 3, 2011 (UTC)