coelasquid:

I know a lot of people are reading this as “disapproving”, because Jack is turned away from Gabe, but I think it’s Not Insignificant that Jack is looking at the rows of fallen soldiers he just finished putting flags on. I don’t read this so much as “Jack is opposed to what Gabe is doing” as “Gabe is steadfast in his plan to operate off the books while Jack is left to reflect on how his tether to protocol is accomplishing nothing but racking up casualties.”

Especially how it’s juxtaposed with the text bubble talking about Overwatch’s limits, as well as how Jack doesn’t really at any point in the narrative disapprove of Gabe’s plan, just tells him he can’t “officially” sanction it. To me, at least, this doesn’t communicate a fight, it’s showing the mounting frustration and helplessness that led Jack to break international law and send troops into King’s Row a year later, and eventually become a masked vigilante smashing heads in alleyways after Zurich. I think it certainly communicates a divide, but I see it more as Jack concerned Gabe is going somewhere he can’t follow, and wondering if he wants to follow, than a gesture of hostility.