Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-71.79.101.59-20140402002122/@comment-4616231-20140925014332

So, he's still alive, but will never come back in the show. How is that different from being dead? He may as well be dead in that case.

Yeah, the OP asked for thoughts, and he got my thought. It doesn't matter if he's someone's favorite character or not, dead is dead and focusing on him any more is pointless. I'm not being blinded by my own feelings towards the character. I loved the Recollections trilogy and the Meta was an amazing antagonist, but he'd dead now. It normally wouldn't be such a big deal, no, except people say this theory way too much and it's starting to piss me off. And as I've said before, we don't need to see a body for him to be dead.