I'll argue that one. Each of those "saving the world" instances have appeared to the outside observer to be someone else.
In Christmas Invasion, Torchwood blew up the alien spaceship. And yes, it appeared to be leaving at that point, but they don't know that anything happened there. They also don't know Torchwood exists. But they saw the big laser thingie and likely went, "oh, yay, the government saved us." And they wouldn't argue that because they wanted to keep Torchwood "top secret" or whatever.
In Runaway Bride...same deal, only it was Saxon who blew up the Racnoss. The people didn't know anything was going on underground. All they saw was the ship blowing things up and killing people. And if you notice...I think it's in Sound of the Drums, Saxon not only takes responsibility for saving them from the Racnoss, but also blames the draining of the Thames on the Racnoss.
As for VOTD...the Queen knows it's the Doctor...but weren't the majority of the people hiding indoors anyway, or abandoning London, or whatever. The Titanic didn't actually HURT anything, so people likely aren't TOO aware that any saving of the world happened there ;)
Now, all that being said...I actually agree with you on this one. Jack is being dumb. And he's probably trying to protect the Doctor, yeah. But there's other issues in this episode besides where he's been. There's the fact that this John dude comes in and is alluding to all of these things about Jack's past, and the rest of the team is being very clear with Jack that they're not sure if they trust him right now...but Jack is giving nothing away.
Of course, if Jack did reveal it all, they'd lose the "Jack is a Mystery Man" aspect of Torchwood, and then what'd keep people coming back? lol. Of course, as it's been said, Whofans don't find Jack TOO mysterious. But there are certainly background questions out there about him.
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In Christmas Invasion, Torchwood blew up the alien spaceship. And yes, it appeared to be leaving at that point, but they don't know that anything happened there. They also don't know Torchwood exists. But they saw the big laser thingie and likely went, "oh, yay, the government saved us." And they wouldn't argue that because they wanted to keep Torchwood "top secret" or whatever.
In Runaway Bride...same deal, only it was Saxon who blew up the Racnoss. The people didn't know anything was going on underground. All they saw was the ship blowing things up and killing people. And if you notice...I think it's in Sound of the Drums, Saxon not only takes responsibility for saving them from the Racnoss, but also blames the draining of the Thames on the Racnoss.
As for VOTD...the Queen knows it's the Doctor...but weren't the majority of the people hiding indoors anyway, or abandoning London, or whatever. The Titanic didn't actually HURT anything, so people likely aren't TOO aware that any saving of the world happened there ;)
Now, all that being said...I actually agree with you on this one. Jack is being dumb. And he's probably trying to protect the Doctor, yeah. But there's other issues in this episode besides where he's been. There's the fact that this John dude comes in and is alluding to all of these things about Jack's past, and the rest of the team is being very clear with Jack that they're not sure if they trust him right now...but Jack is giving nothing away.
Of course, if Jack did reveal it all, they'd lose the "Jack is a Mystery Man" aspect of Torchwood, and then what'd keep people coming back? lol. Of course, as it's been said, Whofans don't find Jack TOO mysterious. But there are certainly background questions out there about him.