I think there was the germ here of a genuinely great episode of... something else. (Janet reckons it was very X-Files, and Jack certainly got to spout a lot of Mulderbabble.) The times when it really worked were the times when I could glimpse that shining platonic ideal of an episode between the cracks in this one.
I didn't find the effects laughable - I thought they were quite evocative in the context of the story - but they definitely had a regrettably cartoonish quality. The episode needed something more photorealistic.
And yes, Jack is entirely open to flirting with anything that moves, as long as it's a good looking woman. In fact he's been even more sexually conventional on this show than he was on Doctor Who. I kept waiting for him to kiss Estelle on the lips - something that would even hint in that direction. But no.
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Date: 2006-11-13 05:57 pm (UTC)I didn't find the effects laughable - I thought they were quite evocative in the context of the story - but they definitely had a regrettably cartoonish quality. The episode needed something more photorealistic.
And yes, Jack is entirely open to flirting with anything that moves, as long as it's a good looking woman. In fact he's been even more sexually conventional on this show than he was on Doctor Who. I kept waiting for him to kiss Estelle on the lips - something that would even hint in that direction. But no.