*headdesk*
Jul. 26th, 2009 06:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
salienneA quote from Comic-Con:
"It's the cost of making Cpt Jack a hero. He has to suffer: he has to go through that in order to be the hero." said Gardner.
Or, from a slightly more spoiler-y source:
"For me it was a no-brainer that Ianto died at the end of episode four. It was right for the story because CJ had to suffer. He was about to go to a dark place so to take him to that place he had to suffer. The man that he loves was the cost of making CJ a hero."
...There are so many ways I could respond to that: about degrees of suffering, or different types of heroes, or how cost generally has some relation to the degree of the reward, about selfishness and selflessness, about what exactly a reward or a hero is, about how life isn't fair on any count (good or bad), or just on why exactly "a hero must suffer" to the extremes we get in CoE.
I'm just gonna watch "Out of Time" (just in case we need a reminder that Jack wasn't exactly a happy little ray of sunshine before CoE) and write fix-it instead.
"It's the cost of making Cpt Jack a hero. He has to suffer: he has to go through that in order to be the hero." said Gardner.
Or, from a slightly more spoiler-y source:
"For me it was a no-brainer that Ianto died at the end of episode four. It was right for the story because CJ had to suffer. He was about to go to a dark place so to take him to that place he had to suffer. The man that he loves was the cost of making CJ a hero."
...There are so many ways I could respond to that: about degrees of suffering, or different types of heroes, or how cost generally has some relation to the degree of the reward, about selfishness and selflessness, about what exactly a reward or a hero is, about how life isn't fair on any count (good or bad), or just on why exactly "a hero must suffer" to the extremes we get in CoE.
I'm just gonna watch "Out of Time" (just in case we need a reminder that Jack wasn't exactly a happy little ray of sunshine before CoE) and write fix-it instead.
