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Still watching SG-1 as I walk and this morning Daniel died and ascended. Which doesn't have quite the same emotional impact when you are looking back on the series with the knowledge that dying is essentially Daniel's hobby, like knitting only with more flatlining and less baby sweaters.
What did have emotional impact was something clicking with me that I am probably the last person on the planet to realize, and has likely been discussed to death, but whatever...sometimes I'm slow. And that is that you can gauge just how many FEELINGS Jack is having by how far he's shut down in his expression of same. The most painful experiences he has are generally reduced to one word. "Yeah". It's like there are no words big enough to express his PAIN, so he goes monosyllabic. And, weirdly, I am also realizing this is a characterization that carries over to the movie as well (which I just rewatched recently), even played by a different actor. Which takes place very, very recently after his son's death and in which Kurt Russel is essentially playing it almost completely blank, with sentences of about two words through most of it.
Sarcasm, dark humor, and colorfully invective outbursts are for situations which are bad but fixable. A short (but devastating)explosion of anger may accompany the aftermath of something truly bad or unfixable happening. But in the moment, all Jack can manage is a monosyllabic affirmation, as though if he even moves too much, much less says too much that it could never be contained (confirmed, I think by the sometimes explosions of FEELINGS when a nerve has been touched and how he shuts down almost immediately when they do). MY. HEART.
Just. Oh god, Jack. For all that Daniel has a habit of emoting all over the place, I really do think that Jack is the sensitive one. My poor emotionally repressed bunny. I WANT TO HUG HIM A LOT, OKAY.
What did have emotional impact was something clicking with me that I am probably the last person on the planet to realize, and has likely been discussed to death, but whatever...sometimes I'm slow. And that is that you can gauge just how many FEELINGS Jack is having by how far he's shut down in his expression of same. The most painful experiences he has are generally reduced to one word. "Yeah". It's like there are no words big enough to express his PAIN, so he goes monosyllabic. And, weirdly, I am also realizing this is a characterization that carries over to the movie as well (which I just rewatched recently), even played by a different actor. Which takes place very, very recently after his son's death and in which Kurt Russel is essentially playing it almost completely blank, with sentences of about two words through most of it.
Sarcasm, dark humor, and colorfully invective outbursts are for situations which are bad but fixable. A short (but devastating)explosion of anger may accompany the aftermath of something truly bad or unfixable happening. But in the moment, all Jack can manage is a monosyllabic affirmation, as though if he even moves too much, much less says too much that it could never be contained (confirmed, I think by the sometimes explosions of FEELINGS when a nerve has been touched and how he shuts down almost immediately when they do). MY. HEART.
Just. Oh god, Jack. For all that Daniel has a habit of emoting all over the place, I really do think that Jack is the sensitive one. My poor emotionally repressed bunny. I WANT TO HUG HIM A LOT, OKAY.