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Three weeks ago I did Spam Me With Your Favourite Sam Quote (Or Moment) Thursday. Three weeks before that it was Spam Me With Your Favourite Teal'c Quote (Or Moment) Thursday. And three weeks before that, it was Spam Me With Your Favourite Daniel Quote (Or Moment) Thursday. (You may be wondering, "Why every three weeks?" It's because.) So, naturally it follows that today is... Spam Me With Your Favourite Thor Quote (Or Moment) Thursday!

I jest, of course.

Jack!

I have many, many moments and lines from Jack that I love. Many. But I shall restrain myself, and just give you...
 
Three firsts:

First season. The Enemy Within, Kawalsky awaiting surgery, and Jack's usual method of coping:

Jack: Listen, I gotta ask you something. It's not easy for me.
Kawalsky: We're friends.
Jack: If you don't make it….. can I have your stereo?

(Ah, Charlie – you know he means "You're my friend and I care about you and don't die and don't worry it'll all be fine, I promise!" It just comes out a bit… wrong.)

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First season I bought – season 4 (predisposed towards being a Sam/Jack shipper? Moi?). Beneath The Surface, and even with a mindstamp, Jack is essentially… Jack:

Jack/Jonah: My memory’s fine!
Daniel/Carlin: Really?
Jack/Jonah: Yeah!
Daniel/Carlin: What did you do in the mines?
Jack/Jonah: I mined.
Daniel/Carlin: No…what did you do?
Jack/Jonah: I remember shovelling ore into a cart.
Daniel/Carlin: And?
Jack/Jonah: I did that a lot.

(It's the way he says "I mined" that I love most about that. I suspect if they pushed him some more, he might recall pointy hats and the hiho song. Or would he remember the mines from Need, and the days - weeks? - they spent down there?)

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First episode I watched – Full Alert (yes, an ass-backwards one to start on – it was showing on TV), and Jack finally has the upper hand in dealing with Kinsey:

Kinsey: Who are you calling?
Jack: Local sheriff’s a friend of mine.
Kinsey: I may be disgraced, but I’m not wanted for any crimes.
Jack: Breaking and entering?
Kinsey: Jack ...
Jack: Shh. It’s ringing.

(And then Kinsey pulls the cord out the wall, and Jack pauses for a moment – then takes out his mobile and begins dialling again. Hee! So, so deliberately, gleefully annoying. He's wanted to be like this towards Kinsey for years.)

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And one of my favourite moments, in animated pic form. 

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This week, my darlings, I need Jack to brighten my life. So spam me!

Season 10 spoilers may be in comments. No need to worry about Ark Of Truth spoilers, though. :) 
 
*sits back to see if the record of 99 comments to the Daniel Quotes post - so far the highest number of comments I've had to a post on here - will be surpassed*

Comments

[identity profile] rdamel.livejournal.com wrote:
Apr. 5th, 2008 02:29 am (UTC)
dumb!jack
Mind you, while I am sometimes amused by how he tries to pretend to be dumb, that is one of the things that also annoys me about Jack, much as I love him.

He didn't do so much of that in earlier seasons, but near the beginning of A Matter of Time, he is cute when he's asking Carter to explain wormholes to him (and she is cutely indulgent. too).

And before long they are once again trying to save the planet--Jack physically and Carter mentally. Thank goodness for Jack and SG1!

Melissa M.

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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:
Apr. 6th, 2008 06:22 pm (UTC)
Re: dumb!jack
Yeah, I prefer the take that Jack is only pretending to be dumb - at first, I think they were playing it as him being genuinely not so bright, in a kind of typical hero role - but really, it doesn't work for a character who's risen as far as he has, and who has to deal with a job like that. It wouldn't make sense for the leader of the flagship team to be a dumb flyboy.
[identity profile] rdamel.livejournal.com wrote:
Apr. 7th, 2008 01:55 am (UTC)
Re: dumb!jack
I really agree that in his position, he could not be as dumb as he too often likes to portray himself. Which doesn't mean he will ever equal Sam or Daniel's brilliance, but that's not his job, either, and he does his own job quite well, despite those sometimes annoying tactics he uses.

I've seen RDA in an interview say he delibertely made Jack "dense" and "thick" to deflect from his heroism, and much as I love RDA, I do get quite annoyed with that. I definitely prefer to believe that Jack is plenty intelligent, he just hides it at times, when it suits him to do so.

Melissa M.

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