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Nov. 6th, 2006 05:42 pmThe latest Torchwood is FUCKED. UP.
Coor. ( Spoilers! )
Know what's not so messed up but has played out a tad weak? Setting up Jack as different from the Captain Jack on Doctor Who. There are hints that he's not the same, that he's been twisted up a bit, and those work fine. Having someone out-and-out call him an oddity or a monster? That's overplaying. Also, Jack has yet to make The Hard Choice. He made a bad one in episode two (( spoiler! )), but it wasn't the awful choice. The Hard Choice is the one where you make someone suffer and fuck yourself over in order to Do The Right Thing That Still Pisses Everyone Off (or, worse, saves the world and no one cares what you suffer for it because they never can understand what you've done). The Ninth Doctor made The Hard Choice in the first of the new series to end the Time War. He spent the rest of the series building up to another awful choice, seemed to get away with having not made it, then the Tenth Doctor paid for it dearly.
What Hard Choice has Jack made? He's compromised his sympathy and integrity a bit with what he was willing to do to Gwen in the premiere, but given what he saved, he didn't lose too much (his integrity, as a former conman, is probably riddled with holes anyway). The Hard Choice at the end is not eliminating the threat, it's punishing those responsible. Just like in Battlestar Galactica--The Hard Choice is punishing the collaborators, not killing Cylons. Lack of mercy is The Hard Choice because the deciding party is usually one that would not have made it thus far if someone hadn't shown it to him/her. Jack is just such a decider. What monstrous things he is or feels or does haven't really come out yet, so let's go a little slower. I know the people accusing him tend to be under pressure, but sheesh! Melodrama much?
Coor. ( Spoilers! )
Know what's not so messed up but has played out a tad weak? Setting up Jack as different from the Captain Jack on Doctor Who. There are hints that he's not the same, that he's been twisted up a bit, and those work fine. Having someone out-and-out call him an oddity or a monster? That's overplaying. Also, Jack has yet to make The Hard Choice. He made a bad one in episode two (( spoiler! )), but it wasn't the awful choice. The Hard Choice is the one where you make someone suffer and fuck yourself over in order to Do The Right Thing That Still Pisses Everyone Off (or, worse, saves the world and no one cares what you suffer for it because they never can understand what you've done). The Ninth Doctor made The Hard Choice in the first of the new series to end the Time War. He spent the rest of the series building up to another awful choice, seemed to get away with having not made it, then the Tenth Doctor paid for it dearly.
What Hard Choice has Jack made? He's compromised his sympathy and integrity a bit with what he was willing to do to Gwen in the premiere, but given what he saved, he didn't lose too much (his integrity, as a former conman, is probably riddled with holes anyway). The Hard Choice at the end is not eliminating the threat, it's punishing those responsible. Just like in Battlestar Galactica--The Hard Choice is punishing the collaborators, not killing Cylons. Lack of mercy is The Hard Choice because the deciding party is usually one that would not have made it thus far if someone hadn't shown it to him/her. Jack is just such a decider. What monstrous things he is or feels or does haven't really come out yet, so let's go a little slower. I know the people accusing him tend to be under pressure, but sheesh! Melodrama much?
