Maybe I Should Stop Listening to the Podcast

I just listened to the Official Adventures In Odyssey Podcast and I was a bit mad at what they revealed about the Labyrinth. Instead of the Jacobs being the ones to tag along for Jason's adventure in England, it was going to be Jack and Joanne.

My first reaction

I don't know if you guys know this, but my favorite characters are Jason, Whit, and Jack. The Labyrinth would have been the first episode in a long time that featured Jason and Jack's adversarial relationship. When Whit was off in Israel, Jason and Jack were running the place but it was a very different deal. They argued over most things because they were so different. (I read that this represented the different sides to Whit. Jack was his sensible, wise part of his personality and Jason was his impulsive, adventurous side.) When Jack and Jason were in charge of Whit's End, it made that era of AIO excellent. 

To put two of my favorite characters in a great episode like the Labyrinth would have been one of the best things that I've ever listened to.

The reason Jack and Joanne weren't in the Labyrinth was that one of the actors wasn't available to record. The writers panicked and decided to bring back the Jacobs.

I really enjoyed the Jacob's return, but I was so mad when I heard about "what could have been".

Then, I thought about it more.

If the Labyrinth had Jack and Joanne in it, I would have been blind to all of the episode's faults. Come on, when you have a collection of characters like Jason, Jack, Joanne, Sue, the amusing collection of British thugs, you have a recipe for the greatest AIO episode ever. This would have dulled my critical mind. I wouldn't have been able to give a proper review.

My review might have gone something like, "GUYS THIS WAS THE MOST AMAZING EPISODE. JASON AND JACK ARE THE GREATEST CHARACTERS EVER AND I LOVE THIS SHOW. BTW I'M HAVING TROUBLE BREATHING."

(This is how I would have looked)

You all are probably asking what the point to this post is. I have two: 1. Great characters make up for any crappy plot and 2. Behind-the-scenes fun facts are overrated. They just make me agitated.