Random "A Day in the Death" story musings
Mar. 1st, 2008 11:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
It is probably a good thing that I will doubtless not get around to doing something with my pre-caffeine thoughts from this morning on Jack/Ianto/Zombie!Owen h/c and the inconsistencies within the episode on the status of Owen's nervous system.
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Date: 2008-03-01 12:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-01 12:29 pm (UTC)IIRC, Pat Elrod actually talks about this in the Vampire Chronicles. Jack has to remember to breathe when he's being examined closely enough for someone to notice if he doesn't, and there are a couple of times when he doesn't wake up fast enough after being knocked out to do this, and winds up being treated as a corpse.
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Date: 2008-03-01 04:13 pm (UTC)And yeah. His sense of touch seemed to come and go. Being able to idly twiddle a scalpel without looking at it takes feeling.
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Date: 2008-03-01 04:24 pm (UTC)The interesting one is whether he has any sense of taste or smell. He was certainly sinking the pints in the bar, but it's not clear whether he tastes them or not. And as someone noted elsewhere, he's obviously seeing (and hearing) by magic...
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Date: 2008-03-01 04:37 pm (UTC)Yeah, it's obvious he has electrical signals going, and though his heart isn't beating his cells are somehow not falling off in great sheets as they die from lack of oxygen and nutrients.
Yup. Magic.
But then it's still only been about 36 hours.
Oh! And I LOVE Richard Briarly!!!!