User blog comment:Thief12/Thief12 and Season 8/@comment-1194123-20100317024128

As for Simon's comments, I really disliked the Jack/Renee love thingy. Heck, I even mentioned it in my Season 8 wish list. I don't know, but everything about Renee this season has felt completely forced, so I really didn't miss her at all in this last episode.

The other two points (the chamber and Jack's hesitation) didn't bother me. If anything, I would say that the whole chamber thing, vest detonating thing was an obvious way to spend half an episode, but that's not different than a lot of ludicrous plot turns we've seen in other seasons (Again, Ule Matobo locked in the safe house, probably one of the worst episodes of the show).