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  • #2799
    shadow
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    Jack is such a pesky, pushy person.  I don’t know how Jennifer can put up with him.  I actually wonder if Jack is actually telling the truth about his Aghanistan ordeal. I know he is supposed to have PTSD, but something he said today, made me wonder. I loved it when he saw Jennifer and Daniel together.  I wish Jennifer would realize or face the fact that she loves Daniel.

    #30203
    casey
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    I believe Days feels, and has always felt, Jenn and Jack belong together. But why they are painfully prolonging this triangle (though admittedly, this has always been a Days staple), is a mystery to me. Maybe if there was some real passion and drama behind it it would be a different story. But I find it pretty tedious at this point since Jenn has yet to show her former strong feelings for Jack. I don’t see this pair clicking yet like before.
    I can’t help wondering how long the good Doc Dan will be around, unless a cure is in the works eventually.

    #30207
    luckey
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    but as Jack on Days.  Is he always so hyper with his body movements and his fast speech?  He’s very difficult for me to watch.

    #30212
    53tdogs
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    the falling in the Christmas tree, the whiny moo face he makes with Jennifer, I don’t even feel sorry for his so-called PTSD (which they rushed threw) SL -and I really wanted and was happy that they brought him back as I like the "old" school actors on DOOL much better (but I can’t say that for Jack – and not actors fault I would hope, just the writing) – sigh, just getting old – set in my ways I guess.

    #30214
    goodolddays
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    I still love Jack!

    #30220
    dval
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    Perhaps The Edge of Night? Nope it was Search for Tomorrow, I just checked.

    Anyway I love me my Jack even though none of the writers have been able to capture the spirit of Jack that he had originally. He has spiraled into a joke of himself, although I did like him interviewing John. Maybe once he has had a chance to recover from his PTSD we can see him in a different light. He was kind of the lighter touch but now he is just a joke. Come on writers, figure out this character will you. He is so much more than a joke.

    #30222
    Patti
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    She can’t make up her mind and she’s making both of these guys miserable.  I wish they would both walk away from her.  As for Jack, I will always love MA, but wish they would clean up Jack a little.  He looks kinda’ like a bum most of the time with his plaid shirts and bad haircut.  He was so handsome when he was younger.

    #30231
    DeeLan
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    Wasn’t he one of the McCleary brothers.  I know one of them was played by David Forsyth who was John Hudson on Another World.

    #30235
    Bonbon
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    "little theater" type productions and is active in fund-raising for the disease his daughter has…can’t remember the name of it now…retinoblastoma, I think.  (Yes, looked it up.)

    He’s also been on OLTL, GH, Search for Tomorrow, and Charmed.

    But, I just can’t get into him this time around.  He’s just plain uninteresting and tiring.

    #30237
    mommytutu
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    I used to love Jack and Jen, now I just can’t watch them together. I actually wanted him back on the show and with Jennifer, but the more I watch them, I just don’t think they have that magical chemistry they used to have. I also, didn’t like Jennifer and Daniel, they kind of creeped me out a bit, but I see much more chemistry between them now and wouldn’t mind seeing them together at this point. I think it was the forced sexual relationship that seemed to come so fast after her divorce was final, and I didn’t like that. I do enjoy them just developing a relationship and it seems they have more chemistry apart at this point than they did together. Maybe it’s the writing.

    I’m not sure what they should do with Jack, but maybe his becoming an instructor at Salem U. will help to develop his character in a different way than this pathetic puppy he has become.

    #30242
    Debbi
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    I have never liked Jack.  I have loved Jenn since the Frankie days of old.  I do like her with Daniel and I think now, that Mel and Abby are going to be having problems, not best friends, it would be interesting to see Jenn and Daniel deal with their relationship on top of the problems between their daughters and Chad.  Throw Jack into the mix, as he won’t just fade into the woodwork, being Jack and it would be interesting.  Of course, depends on how the writers deal with everything. 

    #30255
    luckey
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    one?  It’s difficult for me to concentrate on the character when he’s so nervous/jerky with his movements and speaks so quickly that he’s difficult to understand.

    #30267
    SW
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     a character I remember as ‘wild’ so it’s possible.  

    I’m already wishing he never returned.  It’s like Sami never grew up and neither has Jack.  He was never a mature character and yet Jenn seemed like she was.  Maybe that’s why I prefer her with Daniel even with all his flaws.  I think sometimes when parts of a couple return, they just don’t have that same chemistry that they did the first time around.  I remember when Wayne Northrop return the first time as Roman, I just didn’t see the chemistry and J/M has way more together than he did with M.  The last time he turned as that other Dr. the whole storyline made no sense and I hated him. Oh well.

     

    #30272
    bluebonnet
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    Her indecisiveness has been going on for WAYYY too long. She has been such a sad sack, too–for months!

    #30273
    53tdogs
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    manage a tois and not in polite company please – Perhaps she tried to resume her life way too fast.  Jennifer may need Dr. Dan (and even Dr. Marlena*) more than she knows, I know it was her own heart Dr. Surfer Dude sewed back into her so she doesn’t need any rejections medications for a "normal" heart surgery, but she may need some additional meds for herself. 

    That kind of trauma (mentally* and physically) you just don’t pick up and carry on so fast as she did – it was remarkable healing for someone in their forties (I can’t remember how long her heart was removed from her body – because I was laughing so much at the ridculousness of this "episode" – but it seemed like days even if it was just minutes or seconds).  Remember the really very clean and sterile conditions that Dr. Dan and Mel operated in? 

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