....as much as I detest Jackie. She has one good quality, she is a good nurse....but it is not enough to redeem her. She is a total POS that should man up and spike a double load and just get it over with.
Cancel my subscription to the Resurrection. Send my credentials to the house of detention.
I liked her until she popped that pill before her one year sobriety celebration.
Liked her less while she was in her 'diversion' phase, she thinks she is god and the only one who can do the job well, she knows everything (or thinks she does), rules don't apply to her and I think she will do the biggest dirty to Eddie in the end.
ITA Magpie55, that pill after everything everyone went through to help her achieve that one year (and everything she went through) was definitely a turning point as a viewer. I agree with everything else you said too.
I rewatched a season 4 episode recently and Jackie was still likeable then. Season 5 she was becoming unlikeable. But taking that pill at the end of 5, and then what she did to Antoinette, all the Nancy Wood stuff and the way she spoke to Zoey when Zoey confronted her about it in season 6 had me hating her. I don't really want her to die, or think she has to, but I would like to see her in jail for her criminal offenses.
I agree. That was completely disappointing. Everyone went out of their way to help her and she was probably planning to use again the whole time.
shareI think most addicts want to stop taking drugs and try to help themselves. Jackie doesn't want to stop, she never did. She was just jonesing until she got her license back. The Jackie character is just a loathsome slug.
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I think she has 2 good qualities:
1. shes an excellent nurse when shes not too drugged up( from last season)
2. She is a good person and will help people out as so long as it doesnt
interfere with her getting/take/staying on drugs.She has helped so many people remember? She clearly wants to do good.
Jackie isnt a monster. Shes a good person with a monster on her back.
If Jackie is a good person as long as it doesn't interfere with her getting/taking/staying on drugs, that would be never. We really have no way to know for sure if she was a good person before the drugs because we didn't see her then.
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Arent you forgetting something Polaris?? Jackie and Eddie looking out for Gloria when she started to forget things? it turned out it was a reaction to her medication?
This was something that was worrying Gloria- and could have gotten her dismissed from All Saints for health reasons. Jackie saved her and her career.
Diagnosing Gloria's memory problem is the only thing I can think of where she helped someone for unselfish reasons.
Also remember shen she and eddie went to see that guy who could buy drugs off of eddie? She wasnt going thru with the deal until they helped that person out in the waiting room. She was sober then too.
I think that Jackie only helped Gloria out with her memory problem because Gloria was one of her enablers, someone she could manipulate, without her around then someone new in that position could have made many more problems for her.
This show is billed as a comedy, but to me it is a psychological drama. I like all the twists and turns. but Jackie is no nice lady!
Im sure if you rewatch the series you would see more and more instances that she did good things- both while sober and not. however I have noticed that she has a much better track record sober.
The show is very clever I think, in that it puts the viewer in the role of someone who has to deal with an addict and her deceptiveness.
In real life, the time it takes for different people to figure out that they're systematically being lied to and to say 'enough is enough' can differ quite a bit - some maybe never figure it out or never want to lift that veil and see the ugly truth.
But the same is true - apparently - for the time it takes until people see through the character Jackie on this show.
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I don't know, Butchie, instead.
I used to watch this until recently even though I never cared for the show. It just gave me something else to watch. The series sucks. Don't care for how it ends.
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She's an addict. She is a good person underneath it all but like most addicts she has no desire to stay clean and get into a true recovery.
Jackie is a great liar and manipulator. She mostly uses those powers to help others (her patients) which is her redeeming quality. But when backed into a corner over her addiction or with the threat of losing her nursing career she will not hesitate to use her powers to help herself.
I see this show as just a study of an addict and I neither like nor dislike her. It's like a train wreck you can't look a way from her because you don't know what you'll see her do next.
"I thought Nip Alert showed great promise." Erlich Bachman
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Yea, she is a pos but I love her. She is such a fascinating character and probably one of my favourite characters of any show I've ever watched. Most people do seem to hate her though, and I understand why.
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