I do not love John Druitt. I love Christopher Heyerdahl and he does a magnificent job with a complex, difficult character. I understand that this is not the best written show, and I'm amazed at the ability of the amazing actors to make some of the material so compelling. So, I know that the show exists in a world where logic doesn't always hold, but I still cannot for a moment forget the actions of the true Jack the Ripper. These crimes are so incredibly misogynistic and hateful of the existence of women that I unfortunately can believe that in desperation, when the darkness is so close, when the man is covered in blood and the woman he loves may or may not be saved from a gruesome death and yet she did not turn to him for comfort as she lay dying, with all of that I can believe that John/Jack might want to try to rewrite everything, believing that he, as a man, knows better than Helen want she truly wants. I don't think he can ever accept that the Sanctuary is more important, and always has been more important, to Helen than any lover. I do think that they could have done it in a much better way, and I hope they don't screw everything to hell and gone early in Season 4 and kick out a brilliant character because they aren't smart enough to know what to do with the gold they have, but I have to admit that I can believe that John would pull something stupid. At the last moment, he might give up, he might pull back, but the temptation would certainly be there.
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Date: 2011-06-25 01:29 am (UTC)I do think that they could have done it in a much better way, and I hope they don't screw everything to hell and gone early in Season 4 and kick out a brilliant character because they aren't smart enough to know what to do with the gold they have, but I have to admit that I can believe that John would pull something stupid. At the last moment, he might give up, he might pull back, but the temptation would certainly be there.