#we do see alternate universe jacks played by rda who are kurt russell's character in more ways tho

[parrhesiac]

Going back to the Stargate movie for the first time in a long time, I find it amazing how much of James Spader's inflections carry over into Michael Shanks' acting.

And I remembered that Rick played Jack as disillusioned and not in any way actively suicidal, but I find it remarkable how much "suicidal but absolutely in the grip of his military training" characterizes Kurt Russell's Jack. And Rick's version eliminates entirely the underpinning military ideology that grounds the movie character—and which I've frankly seen in veterans of my acquaintance, where it can act as if the only stable pillar of their identity in a world to which they can no longer fully adapt because of trauma. Kurt Russell is frankly playing that character believably. And Richard Dean Anderson is playing someone else, whose son also happened to die the same way, and who went on the same mission in his universe, but whose trauma complex is not using his military identity as a coping mechanism.