II2 Ep. 16 - "The Reality of the Situation"

was thinking it!

I want to make another post on the matter, because I feel like my last one didn't get at "the real problem." My bad. =']

MePhone has never been a morally upstanding person. It's the core of what makes him interesting, and something that I personally enjoyed following while watching S2. He demonstrates some interesting ups (S2E7) and downs (S2E13) when it comes to "improvement" (or the opposite), and as of S2E14, it was like he had been backed into a corner, having antagonized the people closest to him out of his own life and being directly confronted by concepts and people related to Steve Cobs.

S3 is odd insofar as it tries to give MePhone another, similar arc while his S2 one is still incomplete (which is a topic in its own right). Its relevance here is that it lets us know that the writers think of MePhone as sympathetic despite his flaws; the S3 finale episodes make this especially clear. Logically, if your intention is to resolve the series with MePhone being considered as such by most viewers, now is the time where you would really put your nose to the grindstone re: addressing the existing plot threads that involve his less-than-savory attitudes and behaviors. Instead, through this twist, they're deciding to introduce a ton of completely new implications that make him seem like an even worse person.

S2 already has a lot to take care of; focusing on that feels like a decision more likely to deliver a satisfactory end result than introducing even more to take care of at the very last minute. This isn't over yet, so we can't know what the end result that we're getting is like entirely. It's one possibility that they could flawlessly cap off everything involved in the season; it's another that they could fail horribly. This is just a present perspective informed by what we can know so far.

oh... holy shit...