Redemption, Part I

[catspaw]

I've newly watched this ep again, and it's reminded me how odd it seems. Specifically Jack's comment, 'Over my rotting corpse'. That seems so out of character, so out of left field, to me it makes me pull up short every time I watch the ep.

So, SG peeps. What's your take on this? I can come up with a couple of reasons why this line might exist at a stretch, but no matter how hard I try to justify it, I always come down to one thing: lazy writing to set up the conflict later in the ep.

Open to any and all interpretations :-)

Comments

[paian]

I always got the impression that Jack was supposed to be a child of the Cold War, with an ingrained antipathy towards the Russian military. I'm not sure if it was shown before 'The Tomb' -- maybe in 'Small Victories' or 'Watergate'? Or if it was even established well enough in previous eps to justify the rancor in that line. Or is it his turn of phrase that's ringing false to you, not that he's talking about a Russian operative?

Kinda begs for a pre-series fic going back to some unpleasant run-in he had with the Russian military in his black-ops days -- something to explain it being bitter and personal.