Lives of Captain Jack volume 3
Dec. 29th, 2023 01:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethSo far today I have listened to two out of three parts of the Lives of Captain Jack volume three
a set of audios I have been putting off listening to because then there are no more.
So far they've been really depressing.
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Like the first one sounds like a fun idea, take Rose's mum out to see the stars and end up on the equivalent of a rail replacement bus with standing room only, but then people start dropping dead in the crush, and it turns out to be someone killing people because he's always ignored and overlooked. So the funny of even space being very familiar and a bit rubbish gets fully stomped down by the random murder. But it's somehow more depressing when Jackie is talking about how easy it is to be invisible and ignored. Just have to be alone when evrryone is a couple, or standing next to someone more interesting. I think these Jack and Jackie stories act like Jack just got dumped for being second most interesting and it's so ordinary it's depressing.
The second one is rough because of the lengths of time involved. Like Jack has grey hair, so, long times. It's a christmas story in some minutes, with carol singing, but then it whooshes through years and years by having different festivals and xmas again again again again, until the story did a whole mortal lifetime. But two of the characters are not mortal, so we get the moment where the queen cannot let her handmaiden go. And that's the emotional moment Jack is stuck in, however many lifetimes later, so long he's probably been on this particular planet for a thousand years. He's there trying to meditate to see beyond the veil. And whatever else the story does, that's a pretty bleak idea, that the Jack we know can end up spending a thousand years at a monastery trying to reach the dead. And getting nothing.
The actual plot bits have a lot of death and destruction in them, a really negative view of immortality, and the end of worlds and empires.
But the idea of Jack being alone because he can't let go of the dead, that's the bit getting to me right now.
It's the way the sci fi stuff, the immortality and all, just amplifies really ordinary things. The ex you can't get over. The grief that makes you focus on those gone instead of making new connections. Its so real and understandable that scaling it up to Jack lifetimes is just... bleak.
So they're strong well written stories, but I'm going to need a break before I try another one.
a set of audios I have been putting off listening to because then there are no more.
So far they've been really depressing.
details under the
Like the first one sounds like a fun idea, take Rose's mum out to see the stars and end up on the equivalent of a rail replacement bus with standing room only, but then people start dropping dead in the crush, and it turns out to be someone killing people because he's always ignored and overlooked. So the funny of even space being very familiar and a bit rubbish gets fully stomped down by the random murder. But it's somehow more depressing when Jackie is talking about how easy it is to be invisible and ignored. Just have to be alone when evrryone is a couple, or standing next to someone more interesting. I think these Jack and Jackie stories act like Jack just got dumped for being second most interesting and it's so ordinary it's depressing.
The second one is rough because of the lengths of time involved. Like Jack has grey hair, so, long times. It's a christmas story in some minutes, with carol singing, but then it whooshes through years and years by having different festivals and xmas again again again again, until the story did a whole mortal lifetime. But two of the characters are not mortal, so we get the moment where the queen cannot let her handmaiden go. And that's the emotional moment Jack is stuck in, however many lifetimes later, so long he's probably been on this particular planet for a thousand years. He's there trying to meditate to see beyond the veil. And whatever else the story does, that's a pretty bleak idea, that the Jack we know can end up spending a thousand years at a monastery trying to reach the dead. And getting nothing.
The actual plot bits have a lot of death and destruction in them, a really negative view of immortality, and the end of worlds and empires.
But the idea of Jack being alone because he can't let go of the dead, that's the bit getting to me right now.
It's the way the sci fi stuff, the immortality and all, just amplifies really ordinary things. The ex you can't get over. The grief that makes you focus on those gone instead of making new connections. Its so real and understandable that scaling it up to Jack lifetimes is just... bleak.
So they're strong well written stories, but I'm going to need a break before I try another one.