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Question for TW and DW fans

posted by [personal profile] quinn222 at 09:09pm on 17/06/2009
Can someone tell me exactly when the queen founded Torchwood? I'm looking for the exact year. Also what year was it when Jack was 'recruited' by TW?

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posted by [identity profile] kel-reiley.livejournal.com at 01:45am on 18/06/2009
i want to say 1870... but i'm not sure

and i think jack was recruited in 1899
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posted by [identity profile] manekikoneko.livejournal.com at 01:49am on 18/06/2009
Aw shit, I know this. The answer to the first question, I'm pretty sure, is 1879, which is the year Rose and the Doctor went to in "Tooth and Claw." I'm not sure if they ever said the exact year Jack joined; they only specified death experienced and that it would be over a century before Jack re-encountered the Doctor, in "Fragments." I think there was more info in "Utopia," but I'd have to rewatch.
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posted by [identity profile] quinn222.livejournal.com at 02:49am on 18/06/2009
I'll have to try and re-watch. I'm thinking based on Jack's 'look' that he was recruited in the Edwardian era. That would be 1900-1910 or so. It would fit with him saying his first death was Ellis Island. Could have been earlier though since Ellis Island was in operation in the 1890's. I'm trying to pick a time before Jack was recruited but after TW3 had been established.
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posted by [identity profile] manekikoneko.livejournal.com at 02:57am on 18/06/2009
I think I've always assumed it was the late 1890s or first few years of the 20th C myself; 1880s would probably be a safe guess for the period your going for. (I think "Utopia" also mentioned what year Jack went back to at the end of S1 of Who, which might help estimate the timing.)
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posted by [identity profile] gaedhal.livejournal.com at 04:03am on 18/06/2009
According to "Torchwood Magazine" and their "Brief History
of Torchwood," it was founded by Her Majesty Queen Victoria
in 1879 ("Tooth and Claw"). Emily Holroyd and Charles Gaskell
"coerced" Captain Jack Harkness into "working freelance"
for the organization from 1899 ("Fragments," "Exit Wounds").

Since the magazine is the "official" publication of the
show, I'd take their dates as canon.

Edited Date: 2009-06-18 04:05 am (UTC)
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posted by [identity profile] quinn222.livejournal.com at 10:11am on 18/06/2009
Thanks!
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