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Originally Posted by The Ace  Am I the only one glad to see the back of Owen? |
It depends who he is replaced with really. I still think there was much undeveloped potential in an undead character if they had done it from a hard-sf point of view rather than fantasy. I'm assuming that the actors wished to leave the series. I also think that if they could have drawn Tosh and Owen more along the lines they did in 'Fragments' then they might have had second thoughts about going.
This episode was certainly one of the best, but I wouldn't rate it as high as others have, and compared to Doctor Who or American imports it is still sorely lacking. As well as all the plot holes already mentioned in this thread, I don't understand why Greg would hold such a long standing grievance for his brother. Jack, I can understand feeling guilty; Greg's safety was left to him and he failed in his responsibility. The fault wasn't with Jack but with his parents. He wasn't ready to be given such a responsibility and clearly wasn't up to it. However, the young Greg would not understand any of that. All he would know was that his parents, and his brother all left him behind. If he had any grievance then surely it would be with his adult parents not his brother.
Consequently, the whole 'why is John doing this' didn't ring true either. I would have found it much more likely for John to be driving this because he seems quite unbalanced anyway. He already tried to kill Jack before when he threw him off a building, without anyone forcing him to do it.