::nods:: I definitely appreciate that complexity, too, even if sometimes I feel like the scripting is beating us over the head going JACK: LIKE AN ONION, IN THAT HE HAS LAYERS.
I don't know if Jack's basically amoral or if his morality is just really alien - Torchwood's whole "greatest good no matter what the cost" ethos seems to spring from Jack, and the other characters comment again and again about how dealing in that other morality makes them themselves kind of aliens in 21st century Earth culture. So I wonder about that.
Does that imply that ppl don't change? that the core of Jack is also what it was before? Hmm.
I think it implies that Jack, like, knows that he is capable of awful things (and awesome things), where a lot of people tootle along through life all "I would never do a thing like that!". Mal knows he's not the kind of guy who does bad things, even when he does, yeah?
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I don't know if Jack's basically amoral or if his morality is just really alien - Torchwood's whole "greatest good no matter what the cost" ethos seems to spring from Jack, and the other characters comment again and again about how dealing in that other morality makes them themselves kind of aliens in 21st century Earth culture. So I wonder about that.
Does that imply that ppl don't change? that the core of Jack is also what it was before? Hmm.
I think it implies that Jack, like, knows that he is capable of awful things (and awesome things), where a lot of people tootle along through life all "I would never do a thing like that!". Mal knows he's not the kind of guy who does bad things, even when he does, yeah?
urgh cold medicine.