I was thinking about jonathan's death too. I really wish Joss hadn't killed him. ;-(
I don't remember the episode where Andrew first murders him, but there is a lovely moment just before that when Jonathan admits that he still thinks about his old classmates and Andrew replies that they don't think about him anymore; Jonathan replies "Well I still think about them." He achieves, if not redemption then a momentary state of grace AND THEN he gets killed. (par for the course with Joss, right?)
And I admit I am NOT an Andrew fan, esp S7; but it seems bizarre to me that Jonathan, a character who has been in the show since S1 and is the only link outside the SG to that first season (The Pack), and who really wanted to be part of the SG, is the one who gets killed off while Andrew gets a rather major supporting role in S7 - mainly for comic relief but also for his "redemption story". (beer_good_foamy did an excellent meta on the problem of the very concept of "redemption stories".) And then in Storyteller we have to watch Andrew narrate umpteen versions of Jonathan's death for the benefit of Andrew.
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Date: 2013-10-02 12:07 am (UTC)I don't remember the episode where Andrew first murders him, but there is a lovely moment just before that when Jonathan admits that he still thinks about his old classmates and Andrew replies that they don't think about him anymore; Jonathan replies "Well I still think about them." He achieves, if not redemption then a momentary state of grace AND THEN he gets killed. (par for the course with Joss, right?)
And I admit I am NOT an Andrew fan, esp S7; but it seems bizarre to me that Jonathan, a character who has been in the show since S1 and is the only link outside the SG to that first season (The Pack), and who really wanted to be part of the SG, is the one who gets killed off while Andrew gets a rather major supporting role in S7 - mainly for comic relief but also for his "redemption story". (
Yeah, right.