If Jack loses, say a hand, he'd grow back a new one, but that old hand would be dead, inert. Obviously, some of the Jack!ash would just fly away. The bits of bone that remain would probably form our new Jack.
(Sentient ash could lead into that Little Shop of Horrors crossover I've been waiting for!!!)
We're used to thinking of burnt=dead and gone, so it's hard to think of anyone being alive or able to come back from that. That makes perfect sense! Which is why it seems the show is using burning as the only way to kill people now. But if their WHOLE PREMISE is that death is now impossible, changing the laws of science, even burning people shouldn't be able to get past that. Dude had no neck and he blinked. Ash should be sentient in that sort of crazy world.
(I like to think Owen has been watching the news over people's shoulders and is mentally shouting at Gwen and Jack to GET ON THAT. "In my day, cases like these would take us a day! It was so quick, it felt like 45 minutes!")
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Date: 2011-08-15 05:56 pm (UTC)(Sentient ash could lead into that Little Shop of Horrors crossover I've been waiting for!!!)
We're used to thinking of burnt=dead and gone, so it's hard to think of anyone being alive or able to come back from that. That makes perfect sense! Which is why it seems the show is using burning as the only way to kill people now. But if their WHOLE PREMISE is that death is now impossible, changing the laws of science, even burning people shouldn't be able to get past that. Dude had no neck and he blinked. Ash should be sentient in that sort of crazy world.
(I like to think Owen has been watching the news over people's shoulders and is mentally shouting at Gwen and Jack to GET ON THAT. "In my day, cases like these would take us a day! It was so quick, it felt like 45 minutes!")