Everyone Remember Episode 54 Where Jon Just??? Breaks Into???? Gertrudes Flat???? And Doesnt Get Caught!

Everyone remember episode 54 where Jon just??? Breaks into???? Gertrude’s flat???? And doesn’t get caught! Waits till he hears the damn sirens before he bails and still! No one noticed him! Where did ol’ Jon learn to do this? Sure, he says getting through the window was difficult but he still broke in through a window. And. Did. Not. Get. Caught. I’m picturing him hauling ass as fast as he can, blind luck getting him away without anyone seeing him, the Eye laughing its eldritch ass off watching him. Elias, high, munching on popcorn and nearly dying choking on the popcorn when Jon tries to hop a fence.

Also picturing little Jon who accidentally got locked out of his grandmother’s. Or maybe it was on purpose. He wouldn’t blame her. And this little Jon learning to climb the wall, pop open the window, and shimmy inside. He can’t hold a pipe for long as an adult but muscle memory carries him through that damn window. Sometimes he wouldn’t even try knocking and he’d climb through the window to find his grandmother home. He’d never ask but he’d wonder if she’d hope he’d just go away if he couldn’t get in.

No, no! I asked for interaction :D So it really was all on Jekyll. Besides physical appearances, there was never truly a Mr Hyde. It was the wretched doctor the whole time. This again brings me back to how modern adaptions stray from the novel. (I love some adaptions but here I’m addressing contradictions from the source material.) To get a bit poetic, do people prefer the tortured lie over the harsh selfish truth? Does making Jekyll out as a victim of himself instead of the perpetrator of evil reflect on how many prefer to see themselves? On a lighter note than that though, I wonder how a more true adaption would play out? Oh! I know gritty adaptions are a little outdated at this point but seeing as any adaption of this book has to be gritty, it’d be fantastic to see it turned into a murder show with Jekyll being hunted and slowly forced by outside forces to acknowledge that he is more Hyde than he wants to admit.

Correct me if I’m wrong but in the original text doesn’t Jekyll admit to always knowing exactly what Hyde was doing just not wanting to stop it? Also, that when he woke up as Hyde he was completely aware of being Hyde and had the wherewithal to run back to the apartment he had bought to “house Hyde?”  And I know that he was into shady shit prior and the main motivation for creating Hyde was so he wouldn’t feel any guilt over that shady shit. So if I’m right on the first point, combine that with the shady guilt stuff, I find it fascinating that in many adaptions of Jekyll and Hyde and in the public eye, Jekyll is seen as good if not misguided and Hyde as a truly separate and evil person. When in reality Hyde never really existed, was just a disguise, and Jekyll should be considered a truly horrendous person. The true monster of the story who eventually took his own life instead of facing the consequences of his own actions. I’m sure there are entire papers on this and better ways of pointing this out but it’s been bothering me so I thought I’d share my thoughts.

What’s fun is when there’s even a divide in the state. Like I’m in Illinois but I’m from southern Illinois. And trust me when I say that means something. Every last one of us bristles like a cat if we tell you we’re from Illinois and you ask if we’re from Chicago. Most of us specifically say Southern Illinois just to avoid this because it is hitting the instant rage button with a truck going 90 over the speed limit. And we all talk shit about the state, arguing whose fault it is that it sucks. But God and the Beings in the Corn help you if an outsider insults our state. We will rip you to shreds and plant you with the soybeans.

Do non-americans realize that the United States is literally just a bunch of countries in a trench coat that agreed to be semi-nice to each other in order to sneak into the Big Boy Club? Because let’s be honest that’s just what the USA is

You know, Dorian Gray was kinda weak. Didn’t even get through one lifetime of sin. If you’re gonna dance with the devil, commit and don’t step on his toes. Otherwise what was the whole point of selling your soul, my boy?

Ight so remember when I made a post saying Jon’s grandmother might have tried to lock him out? Yeah I still think she probably did but after re-listening to A Guest for Mr. Spider, I have fleshed the idea out more. And it made me sad!

Jon said, “By the time I was eight, the police had had to return me from my explorations at least three times, and my grandmother swore that if it happened again she would begin locking me inside the house. And I fully believed her.”

Well, for one, it doesn’t sound like she went looking for him. Or called the cops herself. I believe they found little Jon, so curious, with more questions than he had room in his body, trespassing where he shouldn’t, searching for answers. Grandmother Sims probably didn’t notice whenever Jon disappeared, most of the time. So yes, sometimes he was locked out by accident. She wouldn’t have checked his room, when he was quiet he wasn’t making trouble so why would she risk breaking that silence by peeking in on him? The first time she had to let him in from locking him out, she was furious. Threatened to lock him in his room. The next time, she did lock him in his room. For a whole day, which drove him almost insane.

So he learned to come in through the window, at first, to make sure he didn’t get caught. After the first time the cops brought him home though, he decided to stop doing that. Jon became quite vigilant about keeping his grandmother informed when he went out. Sometimes he still snuck out, because she’d say no and that wasn’t the answer he wanted, but for the most part he knew she knew when he was out.

Which made finding the door locked a surprise. He knocked but his grandmother didn’t come. He climbed in the window. Grandma Sims was there but he didn’t say a word, chalking it up to her forgetting he’d left and not wanting to risk getting in trouble. Jon just made sure to tell her multiple times the next time he went out.

But it happened again. And again. Twice more after he was brought home by the police again. It didn’t stop until the third time he was brought home. This time, a “neighbor” (they lived on the other side of town) had called the cops because he’d wandered into her yard. Jon’s grandmother threatened to lock him inside. Jon stopped being brought home by the cops. He didn’t entirely stop exploring but he learned not to get caught. And the door was never locked again.

Jon doesn’t think about his grandmother often. He tries not to, not that he’d admit to that. But whenever he does, a part of him wonders. Just as little Jon, a child less than eight, had wondered. Did she lock him out on purpose? And when the door stopped getting locked, by accident or by design, was it because she finally accepted she had to raise him? Was he such a burden that she hoped he would just go away if he couldn’t get in?

But Jon doesn’t think about his grandmother often. So he doesn’t think about that. Or what could have happened to him if he hadn’t learned to climb through the windows, and remembered to keep his bedroom window unlocked.

~I’m too sexy for this virus, too sexy for this virus, too sexy for this virus. So sexy I’m sick!~