I like how he contemplates Gwen's behavior and his reactions to it.
But I do have to ask at the end, the last sentence it says that he wanted to her remind him he's NOT human? I thought she was supposed to remind him of his humanity. Or I may have totally missed the point, lol. Sorry if I missed the point.
Not the O.P., but my understanding is that it meant that between Jack's immortality and the nature of the job that he's been doing so long, he'd come to lose touch with his "humanity", so much so that he didn't see himself as human anymore. When Gwen told him off on her first day for being so clinical, he realized this and so hired her on to help rectify this. (That's what he tells Rhys, anyway.)
I also thought it might be an interesting play on the fact that technically Jack is from another planet and might not be human at all, and therefore his perspective might be askew in other ways that he wanted Gwen to compensate for. But I think I was reading too much into it. :-p
I get it now. I dunno if you are reading in too much but that just means I am doing the same. Sometime these 100 words can hide many deep layers.
On Jack being from another planet, I think he is from a human colony and I think his ancestry is mostly human. Although I think that maybe he thinks his immortality made him something other than human because his experiences range in that outside the normal human experience.
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But I do have to ask at the end, the last sentence it says that he wanted to her remind him he's NOT human? I thought she was supposed to remind him of his humanity. Or I may have totally missed the point, lol. Sorry if I missed the point.
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I also thought it might be an interesting play on the fact that technically Jack is from another planet and might not be human at all, and therefore his perspective might be askew in other ways that he wanted Gwen to compensate for. But I think I was reading too much into it. :-p
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On Jack being from another planet, I think he is from a human colony and I think his ancestry is mostly human. Although I think that maybe he thinks his immortality made him something other than human because his experiences range in that outside the normal human experience.
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Well written, but knowing Jack he's protesting just a bit too much.
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