MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHA! HA!

HA! *cough* *sputter*

As someone that dealt with John very little, I like to think I have a pretty neutral position with him. I never had a personal problem with him, and I was never negatively effected by him.

However, I was lucky enough to be let in on a lot of early drafts of the GBN scripts, the looks at the characters, etc. So one of my big annoyances with John was always in the amount of credit he tried to claim versus what was actually done before he came along. Very little of the overall story changed when he came around.

I’m pretty sure that “That Yellow Mustard” and Kim were pretty much his creations, but I don’t know to what extent he planned out Kim’s story. I do remember hearing some horror stories early on regarding the direction he wanted to take the story using her.

The issue here isn’t that John can’t defend himself. He’s a grown man that can defend himself, but he’ll be using his own bandwidth to do that. When the whole issue went down, he wanted to use the site to bash the site. Which is why he was banned from using everything. If you work at Wal-Mart or McDonalds, and you have bad things to say about them, then say those things. But don’t expect them to allow you to keep your job while you do your preaching.

The whole situation was a headache, and I can say without a doubt that I would not care to relive any of it. But I definitely know that John has gotten credit for what was his, and anything going on from the point that he left onwards has extremely little to do with him.

It would be best for everyone if nobody felt the need to publicly bash or defend him. There really is no need for it. What’s done is done, and it’s now all in the past. I’ll be glad when we can move on to season two, where you know that very little of his thoughts remain on the project.

Look, I’m not trying to start any comment wars, I’m just saying that it makes me sad that Pavlitch has become this virus that the show had to be cured of. I loved Epiosde 5 and Episode 2 and thought he did some really cool things for the show and it’d be nice if the poor bastard was given some post-depatrtue credit every now and again, regaurdless of your oinion of him as a person.

I agree that I liked the changes to Kim in this episode. Less of an ideal and more of a “real” girl.

Also, yay for Brian!