Let’s be real. Jon could’ve NOT performed the surgery he did on Melanie and let her choose to not have the bullet removed and once she was past the point of no return everyone would’ve blamed him for any blood on her hands. Tell me I’m wrong. CAUSE YOU CAN’T. Jon could’ve made all the ‘morally correct’ choices and they STILL would’ve treated him like scum. Hell, I bet if he hadn’t been consigned to the Eye and wasn’t beholden to the Beholding, they would’ve blamed him for everything anyway. Talk about ASKED FOR IT, he could’ve been a gray rock and everyone would’ve taken turns at him with a chisel.
Literally. That’s my biggest frustration of the series. But that’s the point I think. Everyone blames Jon for their situation because he was their point of contact into the crazy but he was as clueless and stuck as the rest of them. But that’s more realistic and flawed than everyone being more reasonable and talking it out. Doesn’t make it any less maddening.
He wasn’t their ‘point of contact’ tho? That’s what trips me up every time people try and tout that as a reason. All of them, outside of Martin, had experiences with the entities that had NOTHING TO DO WITH JON AT ALL. He wasn’t some kind of bridge and if they hadn’t met him they would’ve been fine. Basira being sectioned was WHY she was even there to begin with, Melanie gave THREE FUCKING STATEMENTS or tried to, Sasha worked in artifact storage before working with him in research before being brought into the archives, Tim joined cause of Danny which was years before he met Jon, and the same with Georgie and the dead woman who was also years before she met him. He didn’t bring it into their lives, it was already THERE.