GleeClub Morning After for TW:MD 'The Blood Line'

[ms_bekahrose]

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[ericadawn16]

Hehe, Jack was in China for the Boxer Rebellion

Actually, this means he was in China at the same time as Angelus, Spike, Dru and Darla which made me kind of happy for fanfic possibilities...

- Jack cutting his finger then sticking it in his mouth made me a bit queasy.

In shop class, we were told to always do this if we cut ourselves.

I was more shocked that he was singing a hymn and not acting as though it was poison or something...actually, it did seem like he had even sung it before which leads to more questions, which past lover or job actually required Jack to do church?

You're right, I probably wouldn't have been so pissed if Rex hadn't been made immortal. It was DO NOT WANT!

[sueworld2003]

"Actually, this means he was in China at the same time as Angelus, Spike, Dru and Darla which made me kind of happy for fanfic possibilities..."

*g* You and me both. Thanks Russell. :D

[ericadawn16]

Now, we just need someone to actually...do it.

[ms_bekahrose]

he was in China at the same time as Angelus, Spike, Dru and Darla which made me kind of happy for fanfic possibilities...

Not gonna lie, my brain TOTALLY went there last night when he mentioned it too.

[ibishtar]

PS: Did everyone else get the: "JACK WILL BACK BACK IN 2012" at the very, very end of the episode?
O.O It said that?!? OMGOMGOMG

It wasn't just a transfusion of Jack's blood. It was the Blessing. Jack's immortality was returned to him, and Rex, being in close proximity to the Blessing with Jack's blood in him, got the same treatment Jack got.

[not_emily]

But didn't the blessing take all the blood from both of them?

[ms_bekahrose]

THIS.

And also, depending on how long the blood had been in Rex's system, shouldn't it have slowly started to become Rex's blood, rather than Jack's?

Not to mention how easily the whole transfusion thing could have backfired on the, due to blood type compatibility and the like.

[azn_jack_fiend]

They sort of addressed that when Rex said the transfusion would have killed him... except that people don't die. So the Miracle allowed the transfusion to work.

[not_emily]

I'm still massively not cool with Rex being immortal. Poor Jack, stuck with Rex for all of eternity?

And I'm still confused as to how Jack is mortal. I missed a few episodes in the middle, was there ever an explanation other than "the whole world is immortal, so the one immortal man is obviously mortal"?

I also don't get how Jack's blood managed to cause all of this. I was always under the impression that there wasn't any one bit of Jack that was particularly "special" or whatever, that it was just him as a whole that's immortal. I worded that badly but hopefully it makes sense.

I'm just confused. :/

[rabecka]

Hm... I didn't read your comment before I posted mine, but it looks like we're very much on the same wavelength. The biggest thing that bugged me about this series was the whole "Jack is mortal" assumption. It didn't/doesn't make sense to me that (a) just because everyone else became undying, he loses his immortality, which is of a completely different order, and (b) because he lost his immortality, everyone assumes he's mortal, and not just undying like everyone else. There never was an explanation of that. Jack says it and everyone around him agrees with him, and somehow, the families know it too. Apparently, he was mortal by public opinion.

[rabecka]

On Rex... there was a comment just before he got shot that I don't quite recall right now, but something about too bad the Blessing didn't do something one last time to save Esther. And then, Rex got shot and we find out he's immortal. I just assumed that the Blessing did in fact do something, but it wasn't to Esther. I thought those 2 lines coming so close together was meant to be a hint, and not that it was because of Jack's blood directly.

Frankly, I find the whole concept of Jack's blood being some sort of trigger, and Jack losing his immortality to be much more problematic. And I still don't get why everyone assumed that he wasn't just like everyone else now - undying. I mean, his trademark immortality was gone, but unless he was killed, there was never any way to know that he was mortal

[rabecka]

Sorry, but I have to disagree on both counts. (1) We don't know what would have happened if the poison hadn't been countered. Would he die, or wind up as a category 1? (2) His not healing means that HIS type of immortality (i.e. dying and coming back) was gone. I'm not arguing that. However, it doesn't imply anything about the type of undying immortality everyone else has, which doesn't include the fast healing trick.

[ms_bekahrose]

But he was healing. That scratch on his arm was healing... it just wasn't instantaneous any more, like he was used to. Even Rex's gaping chest wound was healing.

[51stcenturyfox]

I put my reaction and gif abuse on my journal. http://51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com/168628.html

Overall, I had fun with the series!

[ms_bekahrose]

Your reaction posts always make me laugh. :)

And OMG THAT ICON. rofl.

[51stcenturyfox]

:D Thx!

I'm no Heather Hogan, but at least one laugh is the goal!