mag 78 - distant cousin
you know what? i will defend jon’s decision to destroy the table, and every time i see someone say it was ‘obviously stupid or whatever i want to combust. was it the smartest decision? no. but what choice did he have? just sit around, knowing this creature imitating his friend and colleague was in the midst of them? i think an aspect of jon’s character that people often ignore is that he always needs to do something. he literally can’t just do nothing. also, i find the table confusing as fuck, so i don’t think the conclusion of destroying it = destorying the not-them is super unreasonable
this episode also sets up so much of jon’s future character. because i think this is really the first time we see him pushing people away for seemingly no reason (to them. we as the audience know why) to then do something incredibly dangerous and maybe a little bit stupid. up until this point he’s been glad to either send others off to do these things or to let them be at his side in the madness. now he feels this need not only to do something, but also to do it himself, and although this behaviour initially seems to be born out of paranoia and mistrust, as the show goes on it turns into being about guilt and a martyr complex