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Okay. Here's a thought. It's probably not a new thought at all, but...it exists.

No one can die. Unless they're burned. I'm going to go with burning actually working for now, until proven otherwise. If I missed a line of dialogue somewhere that contradicts this, let me know.

So. Let's say Jack was incinerated. Instantly. Completely. How does he come back from that? I mean, of course, prior to the Miracle. And I know he's been exploded and came back from that, but burnt to nothing but ash? That isn't regenerating cells, as there is no point to start from. Just...ash.

Also, if Owen had really wanted to die...couldn't they have incinerated him? It'd work the same way, I imagine.

I'm going to go...stop being morbid now.

Current Mood: confused

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I'm just popping in to say...

IF THEY HAD BURNT JACK TO A KENTUCKY FRIED CRISP, HE STILL WOULD HAVE COME BACK.

If he can come back from being blown up from a stomach!bomb into itty bitty bits, reconstituting from ashes isn't actually the biggest leap.

We've already established that world isn't not!dying the way Jack was dying and coming back. Meaning that if it really does turn out that Jack's DNA was used to make the miracle...it makes NO SENSE. Argh.

Someone, and I honestly can't remember who, did make the comment that it's possible that the people are still aware, as ASHES. Which would actually be so creepy as to probably go back around to ridiculous, but would still be plenty painful and I don't think they've thought that far, honestly. I'm actually hoping really hard for a truly surprising turn-around ending, wherein Jack has been immortal this whole time, just overreacting, and it's really an alien conspiracy from Mars. COME ON RTD. DON'T LET MY CRACK!THEORIES DOWN.

(Owen is totes still hanging around the nuclear plant, bits of DNA floating in the wind. Probably snarking to himself a lot.)

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A crisp, yes. But ashes spread 'round the world?

What if...they're trying to make a sentient...thing out of the ashes? Like...sentient metal or something? Or...sentient plants! Recycle Ash!

I don't know why my brain is okay with body bits knitting back together rather than ash. Maybe it's...cell-structure related? If it's pure ash, there would be no living cell left, but the possibility of there being a living cell left from which to rebuild is much higher, even when blown up.

I need to stop thinking. And go to work. Bah!

(I like Owen hanging around, snarking to himself. This is a positive outcome. Unless you're...Owen.)

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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!")