At no point was it said that the Extinction emerging was overexagerrated by Peter Lukas. We got a statement. We got Simon Fairchild’s views on the thing, and I doubt he would lie to the Watcher. The Extinction was just thrown away and never talked about once it was irrelevant to Martin’s story. And it’s kind of weird for that to happen in the podcast where everything is supposed to connect.
Jon and Martin would not have kids they would not start a family ever. Which part of “but we wouldn’t have. Been together, I mean” do you not understand???
I’m still not over season 5. I’m still not over the fact that Jon was pushed aside in his own story.
In the end, the “Ceaseless Watcher’s Special Little Boy” was no more than a disposable puppet. Nothing he had to say mattered. Not a single action he could’ve taken would’ve changed anything, and yet he was blamed for “not trying to help”. No one cared about him as a person, he was just regarded as The Archivist. No one bothered to think of him.
Not only did he get stripped of all agency regarding his own life, not only was he outright despised by all the people he valued, but on top of it all he suddenly stopped mattering in the story itself.
All nuance was forgotten. Even the audience began to see him through the prism of his relationship with Martin. The violent monster. The one who caused it all. The bloodthirsty, vengeful Antichrist. The Archive of all fear. The one who died at the end.