as i said in my journal, this is excellent. and i think a much more plausible explanation (poor doctor. the way he must think of himself now, to say that he's found the choices too easy). and, in the end, i suppose, not many people died on a global scale. jack did save them - most of them.

i love the way you've juxtaposed martha, tom and the sja gang saving a group of people on an alien world, with not being able to save anyone on earth because they were gone. and the idea of martha (who is one of the goodies) not being able to make the right choice either.

very good.