Woke up in the middle of the night consumed by this idea so apologies in advance for it being a little scattershot but honestly 167 was such a big fuck you to all the people who blamed Jon for how he got manipulated into all this end of the world stuff.
Gertrude “Motherfucker” Robinson, queen number one badass of the leave everyone behind philosophy could not be more opposite to how Jon lives his own life. He was always first in the danger, trying to protect his individual people, and more often than not it only got him deeper into Elias’ plans, got him all marked up and twisted around in the spiderweb strings he’s danced on for at least four seasons.
But hey! Guess who just got eye on high LITERAL CONFIRMATION that Gertrude “Agency is the name of my flamethrower” Robinson spent her entire life on puppet strings too.
The endless stream of rituals and plots that Gertrude fought on her “crusade” were plopped in her path by the Web. To keep her busy? To force her to eventually have to realize that they cannot ever succeed? To teach something to Jonah who would eventually create Jon? I don’t know.
The point is. Jon and Gertrude are deeply opposing forces and wildly different people with entirely conflicting approaches to trying to save the world. And yet both of them had just as little agency, were just as much puppets to the web and its invisible machinations, were just as close to the constant crises to be entirely unable to see the big picture looming up around them.
Jon used his time to help people and value them, while Gertrude turned a blind eye to the suffering of individuals around her in favor of sacrificing people for the greater good (which was not an unreasonable choice in the puppet show the web had set up around her) but she was not superior in agency or effectiveness because of that cruelty in any way. In fact, Jon’s kindness and loyalty to the people around him is heavily implied to be the reason he will be able to fight back effectively, with supporting friends and allies that Gertrude would never have had.
But that’s not important.
What’s important is that Gertrude was just as much a helpless guinea pig as Jon has always been while in the clutches of something much bigger than him
Despite the fact that they were basically opposites.
Makes you think that probably anyone who became archivist would have ended up in the exact same place as Jon, even if they made different mistakes. Because this is something far bigger than any one person, no matter how genre savvy and goal oriented they try to be.
TLDR Jon’s a good boy who doesn’t deserve any kind of hate
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