and the devil too

[dtissagirl]

It's interesting to watch a show somewhat detached from fandom, because I end up with completely different opinions from everybody else.

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[molly_may]

you still win Top #2 in the Most Assholic Father EVER Awards [William Mulder still gets #1].

Hee! I'm detached from the fandom too, and this is so, so true. I did find the scene between John and Dean to be a bit moving, but I wasn't a bit sorry to see John die because he had been such a jerk, to say nothing of being a terrible father.

[dtissagirl]

Oh, I cried like a baby from the moment Dean woke up. But yeah, John HAD to die to redeem himself. [This is like, Hero's Journey 101, right?]

I've read a bunch of posts today about how John was the way he was because he loved his kids and wanted to protect them by teaching them. I don't doubt for a second that he loved the boys, and that he believed he was doing the right thing. That doesn't exempt him from being a horrible father.

[dtissagirl]

He wrote the most HORRIBLE X-Files episodes [yes, plural] of ALL TIME. Seriously. "Traumatizing fear" doesn't even begin to explain what I feel when I see his name in the writing credits.

[dtissagirl]

I've never even seen the last 2 seasons of XF [nor do I consider they actually existed *g*], but Shiban wrote the horrible episodes WHILE the show was still awesome. Actually, his crappiest episode comes right after Pusher, which is arguably the best XF episode of all time. And then came his episode and it was SO BAD, SO TERRIBLY BAD, that most of the fandom is traumatized to this day.

[dtissagirl]

Well, I was sad too, and I cried like a baby, but I think that narrative-wise, they didn't have much else to do with John except kill him [and giving him a somewhat redemptive death was classy].

This season is shaping up to be even more hero's journey-like than last, so killing the "mentor" was kind of required.