My explanation for Season 8 Jack's behavior is that RDA had reached the end of his physical rope. I look at him, and his face seems thin and drawn. I think about how airports wear me out and try to imagine how exhausting it must have been for him to fly back to California every weekend, for years, to be with his daughter.
So my personal RL canon/meta is that RDA hadn't lost interest and stopped trying, but that he just didn't have it in him any more.
Hmm, and I'd forgotten this, but I remember noticing at that point that he was doing a lot of acting with just his eyes rather than with his entire face. Could've been a Botox side effect, I suppose! :-)
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Date: 2009-02-19 04:38 pm (UTC)So my personal RL canon/meta is that RDA hadn't lost interest and stopped trying, but that he just didn't have it in him any more.
Hmm, and I'd forgotten this, but I remember noticing at that point that he was doing a lot of acting with just his eyes rather than with his entire face. Could've been a Botox side effect, I suppose! :-)