I get where you're coming from, but it would be so nice to have something POSITIVE be all about Jack instead this ongoing series of horrible things directly or indirectly related to him.
He's lost so much and given so much that it's depressing to see him continuing to suffer.
I think the explosion was about the explosion, not about any character development or plot consistency. It read to me like "OK, now, we're going to have Gwen explode the camp to take it down, how do we get to that point? Wait, we only have ten minutes left in this episode because we let Maloney go on and on about badminton? OK, here's what we do, she stumbles across some C4 - it's there as a backup plan in case the crematoriums fail, silly! - then we have her..."
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Date: 2011-08-15 11:54 am (UTC)He's lost so much and given so much that it's depressing to see him continuing to suffer.
I think the explosion was about the explosion, not about any character development or plot consistency. It read to me like "OK, now, we're going to have Gwen explode the camp to take it down, how do we get to that point? Wait, we only have ten minutes left in this episode because we let Maloney go on and on about badminton? OK, here's what we do, she stumbles across some C4 - it's there as a backup plan in case the crematoriums fail, silly! - then we have her..."