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On the last Doctor Who episode when Captain Jack made an appearance, he joked about having been called "The Face of Bo".

Now, doesn't that dish up some food for thought!

It makes sense some of the time.

Gah. Tis messing with our heads... DX

But when we see the face of Bo he doesn't seem to have any of Jack's personality. What a horrible way to end up, an alien stuck in a jar. And isn't the 'face of bo' supposed to be the last of his 'bo race?' as Cassandra describes it? So how could there be more of them if Jack got that way cause he couldn't die?

Okay, five minutes into episode 1 of Torchwood.. Jack announces that he's gotten pregnant before and "never gonna do that again".

If you ask me, I think that is a bit more disturbing. whee

The interesting thing for me is that the Face of Boe was the last of 'Boekind'.

Now, that particular phrase doesn't suggest at all that the rest of Boekind necessarily have to have been faces.

Boekind could well have been the Brain of Boe, the Heart of Boe, the Hands of Boe and other bodily parts of Boe operating as sentient individuals with the same level of autonomy exhibited by that isolated face.

Amazingly, that's the most sensible way to account for the definate article in his name. If the Face of Boe is one of Boekind, that implies that the rest of Boekind aren't faces, or otherwise he'd be a Face of Boe.

Of course, once you throw Jack into the equation, the possibilities get even weirder. He can't die... so what would happen if you chopped the b*****d's head off and kept it in another room? Maybe the original head would wither and he'd sprout another noggin. Or maybe his corpse would wither and his head would grow another body. Or maybe his head and body would both go on living independantly.

Just run with that idea a minute and imagine Jack completely exploded to bits (if you find doing that unpleasant, just imagine it's Jack-as-Chis-Chibnall-writes-him getting exploded). Then imagine all those individual bits being unable to recombine but equally unable to die. They've got to mutate to a point where they can survive independantly. So you get The Feet of Boe, the Liver of Boe, the a** of Boe, the Face of Boe and all thier boe-ish chums. The Secret Origin of Boekind.

Lets back up a minute for a different and more cheery possibility. Still on the subject of dismemberment though, which Jack seems very interested in given his fixation on the Doctor's hand. A body part which seemed to continue to be 'alive' even though it'd been severed from the Doctor and subsequently regrown. Can you see where I'm going with this?

If Jack's head was ever chopped off, for whatever reason, a possibility as likely as anything discussed so far would be that Jack's corpse regrows a new head and his lopped-off head survives also. Just like the Doctor's hand did.

So Jack would regrow a head and continue to be Jack (the physicality of a particular brain obviously doesn't have much to do with selfhood in the Torchwood universe since Suzie can continue to be Suzie even before she regrows most of hers) while the head that was severed from him goes on to evolve into the Face of Boe.

he's from the "Boeshane galaxy" or something