Originally posted by tfalls1
There's no basis for that assumption. By the time Jack was in that chair, he *was* an Ancient, and I think he knew exactly what he was doing. We see before that point that Jack had reached a point where his *conscious* mind was aware of his knowledge, not just his *unconscious* mind: on the ship, Jack is able to tell Daniel that what he's building is a device to bore through the ice so that they can ring down. In earlier stages, he would never have been able to say that, because there would have been a disconnect. That scene on the ship tells us that the two have merged completely and Jack has really become as close to a living Ancient as possible (the ability to heal also indicated that).
If the device is truly "out of ammo", we have to remember that the Antarctica gate was at least 3 million years old and that the DHD for it also finally ran out of power. Jack's use of the weapon may well have been its last hurrah.
J.
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