Jason's Fate

Julie K. and I were discussing some fan fics we were working on and got into a discussion about Jason and his fate. Since BotP ended without a clear resolution of the war, what was going to happen to Jason?

G-Force Defector indicates Jason experienced a medical problem. Although a flash of blinding light from the sun reflecting on a street lamp causes him to lose control of his car and crash, no mention is made of any injuries received in the crash. Later, while on the fire escape, he experiences double vision and vertigo along with his numb hand. The only thing Jason states is that it’s starting again as he massages his hand. In Strike at Spectra, he suffers a concussion. They all know he was injured. It wasn’t something he could hide.

These two events are actually not related unless you want to believe the medical problem created the situation where Jason suffered the concussion.

I went back to Jason Hofius’ BotP book and looked at the episodes. It lists the order in which the episodes were supposed to be aired, which does not follow the Gatch order. G-Force Defector was episode 66 and Strike at Spectra episode 70. Could they really be related the way they were used in BotP?

Jason shows a bit of a temper at times in the episodes, but nothing extravagant. He’s no more difficult than Mark, who has his moments, too. He doesn’t appear to be on a destructive path. BotP gives no indication Jason was supposed to die, so why do some of us think he should?

Jason doesn’t appear to be as driven as Joe. We know absolutely nothing about Jason’s past, nothing about his parents. He isn’t seeking revenge as Joe did.

The team had to have been shown intelligence about Spectra as they were training in order to understand what they were going to face and why. After that, I feel Jason would have decided to do everything he could to stop Spectra because he didn’t want the Earth to be taken over. If that meant running himself into the ground, he might do it.

Would Jason keep any medical problems he was having a secret? Maybe. The episodes only mentioned his numb hand, which he never told anyone about. The episode indicates it happened before. Could it be dangerous? Yes. What if he needed to fire a missile and couldn’t?

I don’t think Jason would purposefully endanger his teammates. Himself, yes, but not his teammates. Jason didn’t argue with Mark in Strike at Spectra when he sent him back to the Phoenix. That shows maturity. He did hide things in Defector, but I would hope Jason would also be mature enough to tell someone if he was experiencing persistent medical problems that would endanger the team.

Joe was afraid they’d take him off the team if they knew how badly off he was. Jason never voiced that fear.

Other opinions?

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We know that in the final episode he recovers quicker than Keyop; if he were having chronic health problems that would not have happened. I think those people that are writing Jason's doom are trying to either make BotP parallel with Gatchaman or to make it them follow the same plots. It doesn't have to happen.

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I have thought about this in my own Au conclusions. (I have figured out how to deal with it.)But its not Jason dying because BOTP didn't have people die in it, unlike Gatchaman.

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EVERYONE'S fate is up for grabs, which is why the post-war fics can be so varied. They all die. Some die. They all live. What sort of lives do they have now that they're no longer required to fight Spectra?

Since we only know that the members of G-Force are orphans (and Keyop is a clone or artificial in some way), there's plenty to play with. Mark's story turns out similar to Ken's, but the others are ciphers. Some fic writers have tried to give Jason a life story similar to Joe's (I recall one that made Jason a Spectran whose parents were murdered for trying to defect), but it's not really necessary.

The BOTP writers had a job interpreting character behavior. They rewrote the original Gatch plots to fit their new interpretation, and some were rewritten COMPLETELY. Since they didn't follow the original Gatch order, they either had to gloss over things or find new explanations. So you can explain Jason any way you want.

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Originally posted by Becky Rock quote: Originally posted by clouddancer I don't see Jason's fate as being the same as Joe's. A possibility is, his illnesses could be related to the implants that the team has.... maybe he is rejecting his. That might be a way to remove Jason from the team without having him die. Of course one could then always have him implanted with new and improved implants that increase his strength and resistance over the rest of the team. CD, I've seen the implant option in several fics, which is always a viable possibility, but then you open it up for all of them to have problems unless there is a specific reason for Jason's implant failing. Then the question would be is the implant problem possibly fatal? Can it be repaired or replaced? Will Jason return to normal afterwards? Lots of fic fodder.

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What scared me with my son was him coming from school complaining about his vision blurring to black and then to blurry during P.E. That was his concern too, as I had to ask him if there was anything else, the headache was secondary. I think before this, he may have complained three times in his life about a headache. My duaghter's complained about them since about 5 or 6 and shuts down completely with them and has no findable triggers.

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I love these debates. With myself, I tend to mix the two worlds, taking the things I like (angst etc.) from both and combining them.

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I was wondering last night why we give Jason such a rough time and I think its because of all of the members of the team, we think he's the most likely to persevere.

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