Obvious insight is obvious.

[elisi]

Torchwood was always Jack's story. (And the story of Jack's people.)

Miracle Day isn't. It's just a story that happens to have Jack in it.

(He might be pivotal to events, but so far? It's not his story. Not even close. And hey, that's fair enough, it's Rusty's show, he can do what he wants. Although it does please me how (as always) I can see him as a mirror to Buffy: 'Oh, poor little lost girl boy. She He doesn't fit in anywhere. She's He's got no one to love.')

Comments

[promethia_tenk]

*claps* This, all this. I just mainlined all the episodes earlier this week, so I haven't had a lot of time to think over Jack's situation, but I absolutely agree. I think it would be very strange to be getting more out of Jack at this point (and that call was shocking). He's clearly doing a lot of just going through the motions, but then, he also cares enough again to go through them.

[solitary-summer.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I agree with elisi that with Jack you have to read between the lines a lot, and that it can be frustrating sometimes, but they've established the character like that, and there's really no good way of changing this now. And personally speaking, I do enjoy this kind of less obvious, show-don't-tell storytelling, where not everything is spelled out and you do have to connect the dots sometimes...