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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The most recent episode really made me dislike Jack.  Thus far he's been portrayed as the perfect dad and husband, heroic, putting others' needs ahead of himself - yet the way he treated his brother after the war was terrible. Nicky was reaching out and wanted to come clean to Jack and Jack wouldn't even let him finish speaking. Jack really didn't want anything to do with his old life, including his brother.

I suppose it just makes Jack's character more nuanced because it shows that not even he is decent and good to everyone all the time.[/quote]

I can't believe how differently I feel about this.  I completely understood why he cut his brother out after the incident with the little boy dying in Vietnam.  Jack had spent his *entire* life protecting Nicky, helping him in any way possible, even following him to Vietnam to help him.  Nicky didn't want any part of Jack's help, and made that abundantly clear.  Jack couldn't put himself out emotionally like that anymore, so the boy dying was the catalyst that woke him up, so to speak, to the fact that Nicky couldn't be saved.  It probably killed him to have to delete Nicky from his life entirely, but that was the only way he could handle it.  [/quote]

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