Torchwood, series 2

[rm]

Dead Man Walking.

Oh Jack. You are an idiot. You love your team, and I get why you love Owen, but stupid stupid stupid. And you know it. Oi.

Love the scene where he and Owen are in the jail cell after the bar fight. Jack steps up nicely there. It's graceful. It's private. But Jesus, Jack, what the fuck were you thinking? Does having been immortal just long enough to start to be wise give you the right to periodically act like a three-year-old? Oi!!!

And weren't all the weevils praying to the thing or whatever enough to make you go "well, this is a bad idea"? How did he even know that was there? Did I miss a crucial bit of mythology somewhere?

Owen's eyes when that thing had hold of him? Billis Manger anyone?

Owen's speech to the kid the chemo wasn't working for? Fucking awesome.

So let's talk about the glove for a moment:

Possibilities:
- lots of gloves that do lots of different things -- we've just met two.
- two types of gloves one usable by women and one by men.
- one type of glove, but Jack couldn't get it working until it was someone he cared about personally.
- the glove used on Owen did exactly what it was supposed to.
- the glove used on Owen did something entirely fucked up because Jack is immortal.


Meanwhile, Torchwood team (read: Ianto, you're the babysitter): Try a little harder to stop Jack from totally arsing things up next time. Oi.

Comments

[rm.livejournal.com]

I know! I mean, I think Jack feels really responsible for Owen because of the stuff we learn in Fragments, but at at given point Jack really needed to get that not matter how much nurturing he puts into someone, that person still isn't his goddamn senior project or whatever.

On the plus side, the rest of the team seemed as confused as us.

[chaos-by-design.livejournal.com]

The only way I was able to wrap my mind around it was that maybe it made a difference that Jack knew there was another glove, knew what it could do, and knew how to find it, which was not the case in times past when he had to deal with someone close to him dying. I doubt that whole 'accepting the things I cannot change' really comes easily to him. But still, it's a stretch.

I see Jack as a sociopath trying really hard to be a hero (which seems like a contradiction in terms, but whatever), so he tries to do the right thing, but he's so incredibly bad at it that he can't determine the right thing to do half the time.