#he granted her more agency than she'd had previously to make her own choices

[ssaalexblake]

It’s funny, because i remember seeing people complain that Jack wasn’t nice to Yaz in Revolution of the Daleks with how he was blunt with her, and okay, I might not necessarily agree with that but it’s not a weird interpretation to me either.  

But while Jack might not have been nice to Yaz, Jack was most certainly very kind to Yaz in this episode. That matters inherently more than any niceness he could have given her. 

Because Yaz knows the score here. Yaz has the whole book open in front of her. Yaz has her eyes wide open and can make choices with full agency. Jack telling her the status quo, maybe bluntly but truthfully and with compassion, allowed her to prepare for the future without any false notions of getting forever or what her whole life would look like. This is not the type of agency companions are normally afforded. 

Now, Jack told Yaz this under the impression that the doctor would Never do so. He immediately related to Yaz and showed her compassion because of it So she could make choices and go on like this knowing the score. He would never in a million years have predicted that 13 would be as mature and open to Yaz as she turned out to be after this happened (the last doctor he met was 10 and 10 was negligent to the point of cruelty sometimes in matters like this). 

So Jack was just trying to do for Yaz what he assumed the doctor wouldn’t. Because Jack loves the doctor but he is not blind in the slightest to what they’re like and isn’t kidding himself. He was offering her a kindness that he was never given, and I genuinely believe Yaz would not have taken all the things that followed in the show as well had he Not tried to help her. 

Nothing that happened to Yaz in the build up to the end was out of the left field. She knew, one day, this would happen. She made choices that were informed and worked for her. When she didn’t Have any choices left, and it came to the end, she had known the day was coming and was maybe not prepared, but she was not shocked or emotionally taken out by it happening. 

She will be sad. She’ll grieve. But she was not traumatized or shocked by it happening (I mean. The specifics of how it happened might do a number on her, but the doctor leaving without her having a choice is something she knew was going to happen eventually). 

The point is, She’ll be fine. And while 13 turned out a hell of a lot more mature than Jack expected, he was still a big part of helping Yaz get through this as healthily as possible because he chose to be kind to this person he’d just met and realised could use some tips from somebody in the know. 

And Yaz, not one to soften blows or beat around the bush, probably appreciated this a lot more than anything else he could have done that would have been nicer.