Teen Jack.
Good point.
See, I was thinking of Jake 2.0 the series, and...
It's a real burden being right so often.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
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DCJensen - Jul 03, 2004 12:57:31 pm PDT #6250 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.
Consuela - Jul 03, 2004 3:28:13 pm PDT #6251 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Besides, didn't Robo-Jack die? I think he did.
I can handwave the daylight arrivals as them finding out what time it is from the MALP. And I've given up on the translation thing. But what Jack got from the Ancients was purely data, I thought, not new paranormal abilities.
I dunno. It's too close to magic being exhibited by a normal human for me to swallow. ::shrugs::
§ ita § - Jul 03, 2004 3:30:11 pm PDT #6252 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Maybe the data is how to work our natural abilities to ... I dunno.
I hateHATEhated the implication that Jack has a special brain/genetics (that was mentioned in the Jack 2.0 episode). Keep him normal, thanks. (Though not dumb, RDA, if you could)
Consuela - Jul 03, 2004 3:35:29 pm PDT #6253 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I hateHATEhated the implication that Jack has a special brain/genetics (that was mentioned in the Jack 2.0 episode). Keep him normal, thanks. (Though not dumb, RDA, if you could)
Wordy mcWord, ita. To all of the above.
I read a story this week that I really liked because Jack was smart, in the way he should be, about leadership and stuff. Of course, it derailed in the last 15K into really soppy slash. But the setup was good.
DCJensen - Jul 03, 2004 4:05:00 pm PDT #6254 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.
I still got the impression that Jack was the first one they'd found of humans with the right brain chemestry, Frankly, I think it was the the mind dump that altered Jack's mind to be able to deal.
Maybe Loki had the right idea. If the Asgard were to check more people...maybe they would find more like Jack.
Maybe Jack's generation is the culmination of the Earth's programming by Deep Thought.
Jack is Arthur Dent.
See? it all fits.
§ ita § - Jul 03, 2004 4:19:37 pm PDT #6255 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
No, they call him a significant step in evolution -- they knew this because he could carry and use the data. His condition predated the dump.
Consuela - Jul 03, 2004 6:16:13 pm PDT #6256 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Well, when was the last time any humans tried to carry the Ancients' database? Maybe it was 15,000 years ago and nobody'd tried since...
§ ita § - Jul 03, 2004 6:17:46 pm PDT #6257 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I was guessing that Loki only knew that Jack was "special" because he found out that he'd downloaded the ancients. But that that's what he'd been testing for when he was capturing people.
I loved the bits of that ep that weren't so much about alien abduction. I'm still reeling over how great a Jack that kid did. Maybe too good -- were any of us that "us" that early on?
Jon B. - Jul 03, 2004 6:58:01 pm PDT #6258 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Maybe Jack's generation is the culmination of the Earth's programming by Deep Thought.
Wait -- Jack Handey is on Stargate?
DCJensen - Jul 03, 2004 7:01:53 pm PDT #6259 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.
Singular, not plural.