Doctor Who/Torchwood question

[rm]

Because I still have gaping holes in my canon knowledge and an idea percolating:



If the Face of Boe was once Jack, would the Doctor know this? And if so, when would he know it?

Also, who did Jack make the off-hand remark about it in front of? I've not seen that episode of whatever it was yet.

(Can I just say I hate asking time related questions about a circular, knotted time-line?)

Comments

[rm.livejournal.com]

And if lots of people think Jack said this just to be an asshole, it stands to reason that he's assumed to know what it is, regardless of why he said it?

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

That too.

[fleur.livejournal.com]

I don't think that. I think he said it as a nickname from his past, with no idea that in the extreme future that name would come back to him.

[tommx.livejournal.com]

A possibility, but is established later on in Torchwood that Jack is actually from a place called the Boeshane peninsula. Whether he was called Face of Boe or if he just saw an opportunity to screw with the doctor is unclear.