I've watched a few more episodes since the post, into the second season. Owen's just been zombified, and how it happened was pure Jack. Christ, would you resurrect someone who's just been killed, for only two minutes, just to get their password?

Yet they're also weaving in the occasional Jack the Complex Messiah. Sometimes he does communicate the world-weariness of an immortal, usually after he executes somebody. And his dynamic with the team, aside from the sexual, has these episodes of sin and forgiveness, when Jack punishes then gathers in his wayward children.

I don't know if I'm fascinated or repulsed. Which is, I guess, enough to keep me reluctantly returning to it, just to see where it goes next.

I don't think I've gotten to the episode containing "the unclothed soft porn intimacy between two British pale, hairy, most unattractive humans"...or I've blotted it out of my memory. Promiscuity may be out, but "gritty reality" is in, and that sounds plenty gritty. :-)

Ya know Frank, talking to somebody who's ahead in a TV series is a lot like having a conversation with a time traveler. I keep wanting to ask The Future: "Does it get better?" Yet I don't want spoilers, so I walk a fine line. I guess about the most I want to ask is this: Now that you've progressed as far as you have, would you say it's been worth it?