Well it's hard for me to say exactly what is in and out of character for him because the Jack we saw in s3 wasn't much like the Jack we saw in Dr. Who either, Moffat's version or otherwise. He was just yet another version of him. I assume people considered him 'out of character' in s3, not because he was a bastard or because he wasn't schmoopy enough, but because he didn't seem to gel with the character we'd seen develop over the past two seasons. Wanting to explore the character's 'bastard' side is one thing. Ignoring two season's worth of character or story because it's inconvenient to the plot you now want to explore is another and tells me that there is no 'real Jack' just a Jack, whose defining qualities are whatever a particular storyline may require. After all if they weren't so intent on ignoring or glossing over what came before, the events at the end of s2, losing his brother and two team mates and being buried for 1000's of years and the trauma that might cause was the perfect set up for the Jack we were introduced to in s3 and would have better explained the 'change' in him without seeming quite so jarring than what we got.
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Date: 2010-01-04 07:20 pm (UTC)