User blog comment:Western Gen/Speculations for Season 13/@comment-83.254.56.86-20150616125849/@comment-4616231-20150617051503

I'd be fine if it was for, y'know, literally any other purpose. But... keeping him gone for over a season with no one noticing, only to bring him back, just to joke about him being gone over a season with no one noticing? The fans already made that joke themselves. Not to mention he's apparently come back as a crazy lunatic, which sucks if it sticks because Doc was fine as he was, IMO. And I know it's O'Malley, and some people might like O'Malley, but personally I always liked the remarks that Doc (and Lopez) made back to him, rather than what O'Malley was saying himself. Some exceptions.

I mean, of course Doc can always do stuff now, but it doesn't really matter, because all it means was that he was gone this long for nothing. Maybe in the future, we'll learn some shit like he would've died if he was somewhere earlier, or maybe he'll get the jump on the Space Pirates since he came out of nowhere. But even so, if it turns out to be for something that simple... I feel like there could've been another way. When it all comes down to it, he was gone for no good reason.

So what I'm saying is Miles better make a good reason, because regardless of what Doc does now, his absence will still have been for nothing unless it accomplished something. And that reason better show up in the next damn episode because we fucking deserve one after over a season of waiting. This shit's got me almost as pissed as all the bullshit about the Meta.