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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

[b]What Nicky did was terrible. No excuses for him.[/b]

I felt like the Jack-Nicky stuff gave me insight into why Jack was so invested in being perfect all the time. He must have known, deep inside, that he let Nicky down ... you could see he knew this in the scene after leaving the diner. Who knew so much could be said with a turn signal?[/quote]

I see it a bit differently.  What Nicky did was awful, yes, but it wasn't intentional.  He was reckless and stupid but given that he was probably a teenager himself and serving in a war while battling his own mental health issues (due to being in the war), I think his actions are excusable under the circumstances. [/quote]

Right, but in jack’s mind it was intentional.  Nicki told him that the women and children were enemies the episode or so before.  So you can see why Jack cannot forgive him ( although why he would not let him tell him what happened is unfair)

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