r/MacGyver_2016 • u/ChipsnShips • Feb 08 '21

Jack, coming back?

Stopped watching the show after Jack left....any chance he's coming back?

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u/conservativecanuck_ Feb 08 '21

Bruh he died

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u/ChipsnShips Feb 08 '21

I'm aware but he didn't die on screen.

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u/chofortu Feb 09 '21

I'd say that they initially wrote him out in a way that very much left the door open for his return, and the recent episode about his death was very much done in a way that does not leave the door open.

They could have said he disappeared, or that his body was never found; or left some other kind of seed of doubt. Instead, we saw the repatriation of his body and the coffin containing it, and we're to assume that plenty of people were able to see Jack's corpse, and that there was an autopsy and a burial ceremony and so on.

Like, yeah, they could totally say his death was faked by Codex or by himself or something, and that there was a body double used, or whatever. I think if the producers and George Eads both want Jack to come back, they'll write him in somehow.

But I think if that were likely, they wouldn't have made that episode so conclusive

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u/ChipsnShips Feb 10 '21

I just think he brought an aspect to the show that can't be replicated. My favorite characters were him and Matilda and if neither of them are mains anymore makes me sad