Yes, RG. That is where, at the end of the day, I keep coming back to it being effing ridiculous. They set up the story in a manner that was expressly intended to bring him back. And then they… didn’t. What?!
If he needed to be dead, leave him dead. That was the case with Graham, you know? Bury him, leave it alone. Don’t kill him, then bury him. Two episodes later, tease that you can bring him back with a time travel spell. Two episodes later, enact time travel spell. Then spend two episodes time traveling, EXPLAIN that he needs to be brought back, and then say “Don’t do it!”
I mean, is it a retcon of SF? She says she loved him, but did she really? And how do you do that to your child, your little boy who now has to face his coming of age years without his Dad? I don’t even know how to take that scene, I can’t even figure in my mind how to interpret it. It was absolute, complete, total idle cruelty.
They killed a man for their ship, and then toyed with the emotions of their fans before… leaving him dead. Seriously. If that’s not the definition of twisting the knife, I don’t know what is. (Oh yeah. Having him appear and reminding us how amazing and wonderful he was… but that we can’t have him back.)
Cause this story needs some mending & a better happy ending...