Hi I'm actually not over how Jon woke up from a six-month coma with his friends dead and all he got was a call-out statement and his humanity questioned. He didn't even get a hug wtf. No one held his hand. No one smiled at seeing him alive. No one said "thank god" and no one said "welcome back" and no one said "i'll take you home." He didn't even get a cup of tea

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He didn’t even get a cup of tea

Reblogging this again but with these tags attached because this? This is the crux of it all for me.

#hopping up on the soap box for a second because I actually have a lot of thoughts about this#I relistened to this episode again recently#and I think more than many other things that happen to Jon this pushes him closer to embracing being The Archivist#Basira and Melanie and Georgie often stress the idea that Jon’s humanity is the most important thing#like his humanity is the one redeeming thing in their eyes and if he loses track of that then he’s just a Monster capital M#but. they do absolutely nothing to ensure he has anything to hold onto#in order for someone to remain Human they need connection they need love they need someone to say thank fucking god youre alive#I don’t care if his actions weren’t perfect. I don’t care that they lost people. they didn’t lose Jon and yet they treated him dead#Jon already felt entirely alone and confused and scared and like he wasn’t worthy of being loved#and then he woke up from losing almost everything and they proved to him he was. he was in fact alone and they weren’t going to help him#when people force you to feel that way and reinforce it why WOULD you hold on#I understand everyone made mistakes but holy fucking shit#they’re so obsessed with punishing Jon and making him the origin of their struggle that they don’t realize they play a part in his loss#that might be nonsensical but it’s such a defining moment for his character imo. he doesn’t even sound sad. just resigned

Everyone spouts off about how none of them had to be sympathetic or kind to Jon, but no one wants to address the fact that he had no one else. No one wants to address the fact that because they expressed so clearly how little they believed he was human and how little they wanted anything to do with him, that he was taking their advice and ISOLATING HIMSELF FROM EVERYONE ELSE. And so many people applaud Melanie and Basira and Georgie as multi-faceted and realistic, not even realizing that the narrative does nothing to say they are in the wrong! We get ONE scene in the penultimate episode where they decide to take some responsibility for their culpability in Jon becoming what he did and halfhearted apologies that Jon readily denies he needs. Because they were right about him, in the end, that he was just a monster who ended the world. And they were the winners, they were the only ones out of all the named main characters to officially survive. But sure. The hypocrisy and victim-blaming was the point.