Ophelia said:
Jack, definitely. But unfortunately that doesn't mean she's good for
him.
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Indeed.
I commented a day or two ago on the Anti-Sarkney thread about why a relationship between Sydney and Sark would be...all kinds of difficult, and would require profound changes to one or the other character.
Some of the same dynamic applies to J and I, except that in their case,
the damage was done before we met them.
My take on the characters is that what we see in Sydney today, is in many ways a female version of what Jack Bristow
once was. Idealistic, loving, able to be trusting. Oh, I'm sure he had his cold side, even then, but then again, Sydney has a cold side today, when it's awakened.
I suspect that Irina Derevko was to Jack Bristow was Julian Sark would be to Sydney, if a serious Sarkney relationship ever happened. She put his soul in a blender and set it on 'puree', and in pulling himself back together, the J of those days became the J we know today.
Mind you, she was trapped in that blender too. If the marriage to Irina turned a younger Jack into what we see today, it may also have turned a KGB assassin into something...more complicated.
Ironically, the very wounds they've inflicted on each other over the years have left them both so damaged that they may be the only people who can really understand each other, or heal any of the damage. But the question remains whether Irina is a healing presence. She probably
could be, but does she want to be, or does she even understand the necessity?
Let's face it, in the time since she's been back, can anybody honestly say that Jack has benefitted from contact with her?