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Post by beccaelizabeth on Dec 3, 2007 8:11:49 GMT -5
Well, except for the part where he was right. You know, in the short term, anyway. My current thoughts are that what Jack objected to most was a true opening of the Rift via the machine they have. Which they "had" to do because they didn't have all of Tosh's calculations, I think? Because caretaker guy had rubbed them out. Well, and I wonder if Jack would have even tried to "get back" if he had been alone and not had Tosh to consider. I mean, really. He could have just gone and lived a different life again until he caught up to the needed moment. Then, stroll back in. We don't know if it would have been safe with Tosh's numbers. We do know Owen didn't know or care about Tosh's numbers to start with and was just trusting the machine to figure it out. One hopes he hasn't the same attitude to, say, scalpels... Jack would probably have weighed up the risks and decided not to try and use the machine. If duty won. But even for a guy who's more than a century old, living sixty years over again isn't a trivial commitment. And he was only just at a part of time where he could have risked catching up with the Doctor, exactly what he'd been waiting for all along. It would have been tempting. Plus, rather than just having history book data, he'd have memories. That constant daily temptation to go back and put things right, held back by the knowing it wouldn't work, could destroy the universe even... not a fun option.
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