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Kerning Chameleon
Apr 8, 2015

by Cyrano4747

Crain posted:

I wanted to say that if either Jack or Aku had kinda stopped participating in their mutual rivalry Scaramouch would have been more "You know who I am?" but he actually was.

He kept going on about how he's Mr. #1, and talking about Jack's new look. So maybe Jack has really just hosed off to aimless do...stuff.

Another thing: Jack's psychosis seemed to get triggered specifically when he ignored the destroyed town. He see it, moves on to the river and get's a face full of leaf zombies, then runs again and get's roasted, finally heading off toward the village.

He still has an episode in the town, but you could call that an effect of the guilt from ignoring them initially.

Maybe there will have been an incident relating to Jack trying to just focus on returning home and letting something terrible happen.

There is so much back story to go through in 10 episodes.

In the original seasons, Jack was always torn between two objectives: helping those in need and find a time portal to stop Aku permanently. The problem is his code of honor was so strong he would always sacrifice the chance for the portal to save the weak of the week. Before, he could always brush it off as "oh well, there's surely another one somewhere". After several decades, it doesn't look like he can convince himself with that excuse anymore, AND the helpless are still being terrorized without end. Much like with Jack Bauer and the seemingly endless supply of terrorists, Jack may as well not even bother saving people one week if odds are some other random rear end in a top hat comes in behind him to gently caress them up the next.

He's failed both his goals, and he's painfully aware of it, but he's trapped in an undying Sisyphean hell nonetheless.

Kerning Chameleon fucked around with this message at 06:20 on Mar 13, 2017

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Kerning Chameleon
Apr 8, 2015

by Cyrano4747
Thread title on point.

Kerning Chameleon
Apr 8, 2015

by Cyrano4747

J.A.B.C. posted:

Is it really professional help when he is the person he is talking to? Its just another flavor of crazy.

And his mental double is trying to calm him down, while Jack's is trying to goad him into suicidal despair.

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