#jack dalton

old but i decided to post it !!!

Have to barricade enemies inside a building?

Bomb.

Trying to lose a pursuit car?

Bomb.

Minor inconvenience that could probably be fixed some other way?

Bomb.

“Hey Mac, got any ideas?”

It’s a bomb.

today's episode was s1 ep 10, Pliers, where jack doesn't want mac ripping up his rented minivan:

your """""""bank account"""""" or missing little girl, Jack?

MAC: When I was a, uh, kid he [James] bought me a Walkman and told me it was for a surprise ski trip. I thought it was a real father-son vacation. Well, no. It was just an opportunity to teach me survival skills, like how to make an avalanche beacon out of my new portable radio. JACK: So you feel my pain when it comes to sacrificing electronics?

Currently haunted by the story of Mac's dad giving him a Walkman, and then purposefully putting him in a situation where he had to take it apart.

Like, what'd you mean you gave a kid a present in order to force him to break it down the line? What'd you mean you watched his face light up as he opened the wrapping paper, and carried it around everywhere, and was so excited about going on a father-son trip with you? What'd you mean you gave him something precious -- just so he'd have to sacrifice it? Why do you think teaching hard lessons is all there is to being a father?

And wow what a brilliant bit of characterization, because suddenly Mac's penchant for cavalierly breaking everything around him for the sake of the mission has even more dimension. His very first meeting with Jack is a fight because he'd been screwing around with Jack's rifle. The trail of carnage he leaves behind him: snapped sunglasses, and gutted phones, and taking apart whatever's around him to get the job done. Things are just tools to utilize towards achieving an objective, you can't tie your emotions to them, you can't care about them. Once you can take something apart, it can only amount to the sum of its components.

Jack's apartment is a shrine to his eclectic and beloved belongings, material and sentimental. Mac's place is full of a morphing hodgepodge of creations he's ruthlessly broken down and put back together over and over again.

In retrospect, it makes how snippy and impatient he is about Jack not wanting his stuff broken so interesting. It also makes him sitting in the passenger seat, intently working on fixing Jack's sunglasses hit even harder.

D'you think sometimes he's lodged into that brutally practical headspace, aggravated by Jack's dragging his feet and whining about his precious stuff? It's only stuff, why is Jack being such a pain about it?

D'you think when he looked up from the broken pair of glasses in his hands, he saw the hurt in Jack's eyes, and all of the sudden his chest filled with a decade-dormant ache of loosing something that mattered to him?

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William & Jack Daltons

Howdy, this is my very first post on Tumblr, I wanted to start posting my artworks and all my passions here! These are the most hilarious and legendary bandits in the whole West! The Dalton brothers from the Lucky Luke comics! I am so lucky to be hyperfixated with them since I was 8 years old, they are my source of inspiration and joy, my comfort characters.

This pictures portrays them from the animated movie Daisy Town (1971) in my favorite scene of all: the duel with Lucky Luke, that scene made me fall in love with the western genre, it's History and aesthetic.