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amythest_n_ice) wrote2007-04-08 05:36 pm
amythest_n_ice) wrote2007-04-08 05:36 pm
Combat query
I was watching Combat again last night (my DVD's have only just arrived, growl), and I saw, or thought I saw, something odd.
When the muppet who had been running the fight club thing stepped into the cage at the end of the episode, Jack was pointing his gun at the Weevil. Now, it may have been my overactive imagination, but it looked to me like he lowered his gun, the Weevil stayed where it was watching Jack as well as the bloke. It didn't move until Jack inclined his head slightly in the bloke's direction, either instructing it, or giving it permission, to attack. Then when the camera cut back to Jack's face, there was this look of, kind of, satisfaction.
Is there a possibility that Jack is better able to communicate with/understand Weevils on the telepathic or emapthic wavelength they seem to posess than he wants to let on to his team?
It wouldn't be the first time, would it?
When the muppet who had been running the fight club thing stepped into the cage at the end of the episode, Jack was pointing his gun at the Weevil. Now, it may have been my overactive imagination, but it looked to me like he lowered his gun, the Weevil stayed where it was watching Jack as well as the bloke. It didn't move until Jack inclined his head slightly in the bloke's direction, either instructing it, or giving it permission, to attack. Then when the camera cut back to Jack's face, there was this look of, kind of, satisfaction.
Is there a possibility that Jack is better able to communicate with/understand Weevils on the telepathic or emapthic wavelength they seem to posess than he wants to let on to his team?
It wouldn't be the first time, would it?
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I wouldn't call it evidence, either, but it's a reason: there's no need to think within the text here. They gave a reason for Martha Jones' resemblanced to the character in the role she had in Doctor Who's "Army of Ghosts": they said Adeola was Martha's cousin. They have given no reason for Gwen's resemblance to Gwyneth, and though she could be a relative, she can't be a descendent, and reincarnation is ruled out in a show that states there is 'nothing' after death. A thematic link remains possible.
Feel free to butt in! I find it an interesting topic.
Another reason for me to wonder is that Jack's motivation for hiring Gwen seemed thin to me, given her set of skills. If he saw something in her that most people can't see - such as psychic abilities - it would explain why he thought she would be an asset to the team. It would explain why he's trying to get her to think in non-linear ways. It would explain why the first thing he did when she got into the Hub in "Everything Changes" was to take her to see the Weevil and to look into its eyes.