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solitary_summerInterestingly enough all three candidates (pick any, I can't decide because my reasons for disliking them are so different) are from S2; there are a couple of S1 episodes I feel maybe a bit blah about, but none of them actively annoyed me.
# The human-rights-what-human-rights? torture happy Sleeper. Now after several rewatchings I do recognise there's a quite fascinating parallel between Beth and Jack that comes out especially in the scene in the cells after they found out who/what she really is, as well as some interesting themes about humanity and what it means to be human when you aren't any longer, something that applies to both Beth and Jack. I also do recognise they did have reason to be be suspicious that something was wrong with her. However, none of that dminishes my extreme discomfort with how Jack treats Beth in this episode and how no one raised more than a token protest when he decided to have her tortured. Watching that scene still makes me sick. I'm sorry, but when things like Guantanamo and the Abu Ghraib scandal are happening in the real world you can't write something like that without even the least canon acknowledgement that it might be a tad problematic. And while we're at it, whoever wrote Reset, I'm looking at you, too.
# Exit Wounds, because the wasted opportunities in this episode are a crying shame. Gray's whole storyline was terrible from the way it was written to the actor they picked. Watching Jack and Alice in CoE makes me almost angry for what could have been. Mostly, what I still can't get over is that in The Sound of Drums there's this bit of dialogue where Martha asks Ten who the Master is, and when she says, 'I thought you were gonna say he was your secret brother or something', he replies, 'You've been watching too much TV.' And then someone thought it was a good idea to do exactly that on TW and no one even batted an eyelid? They recycle the 'I forgive you' line for the third finale in a row after End of Days and Last of the Time Lords and no one noticed or cared? And some canon explanation how Jack survived all that time buried alive without going insane would have been good, too. It's all very well that JB eventually confirmed everyone's speculation, but that should have been in the story.
# And then there's Dead Man Walking, which except for the scene with Jack and Owen in the police cell and a couple of other Owen moments is just bad overall, from Jack's ill-timed slapstick act of tip-toeing through the Weevils to Owen wrestling a CGI skeleton. My personal suspicion is that the whole episode suffered more than a little from the last-second Ianto/Owen switch, and while I'm glad we had Ianto for another season, I'd still argue that Jack going this far for Owen is making him look more than a little mentally unstable, and not in the 'interestingly flawed' kind of way.
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Date: 2011-01-02 05:39 pm (UTC)This fic does a beautiful job of addressing that issue - maybe not exactly in the way you mean, but I still think you'll like it. Jack-centric, written during S1 of TW and rather short:
Absolution. (He’s not sure what he’d like more, the chance to keep his anger or the chance to be forgiven himself.)