Mar 21, 2025
Jon should have instinctively snapped at Martin "I'm not your mother" in an unconscious moment of Knowing about Martin projecting his relationship with his mommy onto his relationship with Jon.
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Jon should have instinctively snapped at Martin "I'm not your mother" in an unconscious moment of Knowing about Martin projecting his relationship with his mommy onto his relationship with Jon.
Sorry for the impromptu Martin hating, but his treatment of Jon in this episode is frankly and inarguably vile. He keeps treating Jon like he's a spoiled child when he is (1) at the mercy of someone who very well could be their enemy and (2) for the first time in a long time deprived of powers that he depends on.
Why are people on tumblr so defensive of characters like Martin? Weasely, passive aggressive little nice guys piss me off to no end but if I express an iota of discontent people jump down my throat
My best guess is that they relate to him, really. "Insecure and bitchy" describes a lot of people likely to use Tumblr (as a safe outlet for bitchiness) and participate in fandom.
My friend asked if there's a supernatural explanation for why Jon's compulsion powers can't seem to keep Martin focused on the subject of his statement. Me, personally, I think Martin is supernaturally stupid.
At this point, hating Martin is its own sport. I do genuinely hate the impact he had on S5 and how he was written; there's no performativity to my hate, but it's so enriching to just take every chance to low hanging fruit dunk on him. My personal punching bag.
Not to give away that I am intimately attuned to Martin's flaws, but his first statement (MAG 22, Colony) is the first so far with inconsistent tense usage (he flip-flops between present and past tense with no rhyme or reason). Even after compulsion he could NOT be eloquent.
"Elias is a right winger! Elias is a conservative!" Elias has no reason to care about politics beyond getting funding for his nonprofit. Do you know who has canonically expressed sentiments about the police that are common to the right? Martin.
This is partly my bias, but I do not understand Martin/Elias parallelisms. Yeah, there's that line about how they both love manipulation, but they manipulate people in entirely different ways and for different reasons. Their worldviews and attitudes couldn't be further apart.