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Interestingly enough, the more I think about it, the more does TEoT, if you compare it to CoE, actually make Jack look more of a hero (again). The Doctor refusing the gun, even if that meant that six billion people would remain Master clones, having lost maybe not their physical lives as such, but their identities, which is exactly what he himself is dreading so much... For me that 'Never,' triggered a very similar stunned almost-but-not-quite disbelief as Jack's nod on Day Five and there's so much moral ambiguity in both situation that it makes you head spin, although maybe in opposite directions. But in the end Jack's decision was undoubtedly the braver and less egoistic one. The balance between the two of them certainly did shift a lot since Jack's self-clearing cons in S1, and it's a rather striking irony that despite everything he's done, it's Jack who comes out as the better person in the end...
Hm. *thinkythoughts*
Hm. *thinkythoughts*