I hope you'll find some good ideas about Jack and his childhood friend. Really the survivor guilt issue isn't new, but it makes sense in Jack's case. And a childhood friend like this must be like home, too. And to lose him in such a horrible way, it mush be like the house in which he was born are being burned down in front of him. After this, he'll never have any place to call home. (Until the TARDIS comes...) Jack being a torture guy, revealed in 'Countrycide', however, feels kind of flat. I don't know the problem is about the script or about Barrowman's acting. Maybe both. When I first heard it, I was kind of...embarrassed...by their efforts. Well, Jack is an agent, and an agent does dirty work. I'm just not easily convinced, I guess. (Interesting that Jack does far more dirty work when he's supposed to be with the good guys. Time Agency. Torchwood. And he's fully aware and fully intentioned to. At the same time, except the almost genocide out of carelessness in Empty Child/Doctor dances, he seems to have a clear record in his morally worst days...)
I miss Methos. This is a guy who can convince me that he really has had a career out of torturing people to death(well, better happened a long, long time ago) and still I find him cozy. This must be some old dark magic...
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Re: and other heroes
Date: 2007-02-28 02:56 am (UTC)Jack being a torture guy, revealed in 'Countrycide', however, feels kind of flat. I don't know the problem is about the script or about Barrowman's acting. Maybe both. When I first heard it, I was kind of...embarrassed...by their efforts. Well, Jack is an agent, and an agent does dirty work. I'm just not easily convinced, I guess.
(Interesting that Jack does far more dirty work when he's supposed to be with the good guys. Time Agency. Torchwood. And he's fully aware and fully intentioned to. At the same time, except the almost genocide out of carelessness in Empty Child/Doctor dances, he seems to have a clear record in his morally worst days...)
I miss Methos. This is a guy who can convince me that he really has had a career out of torturing people to death(well, better happened a long, long time ago) and still I find him cozy. This must be some old dark magic...