2025-08-10 19:42:36 ¶ ● ⬈

ashes-in-a-jar:

> Looking back at my live reactions to season 5, watching myself bend over backwards to try to justify the frankly strange dynamic between Martin and Jon, how Martin treats Jon in such an uncharacteristic way given his whole development up to season 4, how everyone gets more than a ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ moment of serious sympathy and time to explain themselves, while Jon is left to apologize and be interrupted. Again. And again.

> Only to realize from the post show’s creators multiple retrospectives that this was just an accidental result of a deviation of plan that gave him an attempt at a sympathetic route while the creators themselves couldn’t muster up the sympathy to do it properly, because they were already partially influenced by the previous, abandoned direction of the show.