I just finished the series and was wondering when everybody felt Jackie was no longer redeemable. For me it was when she sent her sponsor to rehab to get rid of her. I felt at that moment I hated her character and there was no way she was going to redeem herself. Did some of you feel that earlier, or later, or did you never lose hope?
shareThe incident you mention was when I started disliking her. I started hating her with how she treated Frank and breaking up with him after he tried to help her and stand by her. I was done when she instigated Akilitus into yelling at her to use it to keep her job.
shareI thought she deserved every bit of a cold shoulder from Akilitus, and I hated when zoey was being too easy on her. She completely destroyed her friendship with Akilitus and acted like she wasn't even sorry. I wonder what would have happened with her and O'Hara if she had been there.
shareEventually, she turned nearly every other person away. Honestly, it might sound horrible, she needed to die at the end. She had destroyed so much an hurt so many and after the OD, what kind of life would she have? I'm split on whether it was suicide or not, but she needed to be put out of her misery. For some reason I feel stronger disappointment with her behavior towards Akalitus and the end of their relationship.
shareYou think she died? The producers or writers or somebody said she didn't.
shareWhen she was in the bathroom with some guy going down on her while Frank was calling out square dancing calls. Frank deserved so much better than her, as did every other person in her life.
Alpha predators are very rarely interested in singalongs.
The moment she took that pill before her 1 year sobriety I started to absolutely hate her. How she did that to her sponsor was the worst though. Im watching the final season right now and Im just tired of her, but the other characters keep me watching.
shareI think that was it for me too. It wasn't even the act of taking the pill; it was Jackie's mindset when doing it. She didn't agonize of it at all. She had no shame. It was like a present to herself for making it a year.
I totally get viewers being finished with Jackie when she tricked her "sponsor" pal into rehab. For that, it was again Jackie's reaction that made it despicable to me. It how Jackie's marveled in her schemes that made the actions so sickening. She became increasingly brazen and narcissistic.
I guess we all got a glimpse into having a relationship with an addict. From the first episode, when I thought Jackie was doing what was necessary to keep her job by managing chronic pain, I was drinking the kook-aid she was serving. The pills justified a means to an end. Jackie was successful and admired as a nurse, an active parent and supportive spouse. No one was really being harmed, right? In fact, lots over people were being helped. As things progress, I was still sort of buying her *beep* regulations can be too rigid, some times a mistake is just a mistake, that if you can compartmentalize your life areas you can easily manage them, people get divorced....I first got bothered when she kicked Kevin out to conceal her attitude toward adultery and put distance between her and being exposed as an addict, the scene in the bathroom during the square dance is where I felt like her addiction was out of control, but when she encouraged Antoinette to go off the rails and then deposited her in a treatment program, I knew that she was far beyond redemption and I found myself waiting for her to self-destruct.
shareFor me, it was at the end of Episode 710 when Jackie took the pill after becoming a nurse again, especially because I was rooting for her throughout season 7 to get better and genuinely thought she could change.
shareYou really thought she wasn't going to return to using again. This time it was obvious she wasn't using soley to get her license back. I was expecting her to use again, just not so quickly and without a little hesitation. It was almost offensively triumphant in the manner she did it like she was sticking it to the people who rightly thought she should not get it back.
shareSCREWING ANTOINETTE OVER.
It was disgusting. Before usually when Jackie had to do something "immoral" She seemed upset somewhat about it.
Not here, she waltzed out of the rehab facility with a huge smirk.
Bleh.
This series did a decent job of showing how an addict will suck the life out of you, if given the opportunity. Trust me, it is far worse than what was shown here...
shareFor me, it was taking the pill before her sobriety party as well. She was spooked by the expectation of her success, my guess.
However, I don't think she tricked her sponser. That was on the sponsor. If you can be tricked on a whim that easily, you should not be a sponser in the first place. Wait another year. Jackie had become pretty evil at that point, but the sponsor was too easily enticed. She did not need to go down with the ship.