ok what’s everyone’s most controversial tlt opinion I’m curious
not to be a #jodapologist BUT
i think that everything up to the Resurrection john shouldn’t take the blame for. like he did it, but man wasn’t sleeping, or eating, and when he killed the entire solar system he had just been through The Most Trauma and had Seen The Horrors. by the time he even started moving corpses he was not compos mentis, let alone after seeing all his friends die violently (including one who shot herself in front of him) and the feeling the entire screaming soul of the earth
i also think that john and alecto are closer to Paul than to a lyctor, john constantly references putting bits of alecto in him and parts on him in alecto, so i think this John isn’t the scientist John, at least not completely, he’s a combination of John and Alecto
but my all time #1 controversial tlt opinion is that the “life is too short and love too long” isn’t the best and most gut wrenching line of the series, it isn’t even Cam’s best line
the best most gut wrenching line for me is when Cam and Pal are talking through the tape recorder and Cam says: “I’ve carried you Warden, and I’ve carried your memory… I’d rather carry you.”
i do not know why that line makes me so insane, it doesn’t even look like it stands out in their conversation but i don’t think i’ve gone a solid waking hour without thinking about it since i read it
OH but this take on John and Alecto’s soul merge is Interesting! My take is that he’s mostly the same person, “just” lost any human perspective + he and Alecto spent centuries making each other worse, BUT he does say in NtN that when he ascended “there was too much of him that was still human” implying that now there isn’t.
Anyway thank you for reminding me of that Camilla line… I’m emo about it