User blog comment:Thief12/Thief12 and Season 8/@comment-261565-20100302220818

But it wasn't so much that he choked up and failed to shoot Marcos in the kneecap, its that he decided that it was a better idea to NOT do that and try and talk him out of it, I just don't think it seems very "Jack-Bauer".

I'll give you the Season 2 one, I had forgotton about Wald hiding in the chamber, it did seem a bit stupid that he conveniently had that in his garden and in retrospect it is more plausible that one would be like that at a hospital.

However with Jack and Renee the difference is that they haven't been in a relationship and each time they bring it up they don't say anything different. And also its the fact that it had happened 3 episodes in a row (well, 2 if you don't count Jack's first iteration). With Jack and Audrey I didn't notice it so regularly, or didn't find it as off-putting.