About Jenna, I feel ambivalent. She made the right decision in going home, but absolutely the wrong one in leaving when her mother was, as she knew, on her death bed. She made a reference at the end to "even if she doesn't know I'm there," something like that, so clearly when she left, she had said goodbye. It did affect other people, her changing her mind, so I can see them being at the same time sympathetic and annoyed that she'd left with exactly the same information she had when she arrived.
She'll never be sorry she left, though.
Still, I think she owes her teammates an apology for having misjudged her emotions beforehand.
I have a teeny bit of a suspicion that wanting to get the hell out of there (it was being physically more grueling than the earlier series) had something to do with her departure.
The other side of that suspicion is that you can believe, when you're strong and healthy and at your best, that you can handle a hard thing like saying goodbye to your dying mother, knowing, and accepting, that when you come home, she's likely to be gone... and then, weak and exhausted and emotionally fragile, the same prospect that you faced with inner strength earlier could be absolutely more than you can bear. And in advance, you wouldn't know how changed and weakened you could be by physical and emotional stress.
Hatch, it ain't about liking him, it's about appreciating the way he plays the game.
I think what's interesting about the show is the interplay between the two. If you don't like anyone, there's no one to root for.
Go Rupert. |
