him mucking about on the chair Beth was about to be strapped down to and possibly had her head explode was insensitive and kind of horrible.

Uhh.. I thought he was doing it on purpose: to disturb the others and make them/Jack think twice about what was going on. Sometimes a visual reminder with disturbing sound FX is more efficient than a "But think of the things that might go wrong".


Orrr, maybe I'm just reading too much into it.