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Re: Unpopular fandom opinions

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I actually agree with you. I like Ben, and I think that the scene where he was fired was heartbreaking--but it wasn't heartbreaking because it was unfair, it was heartbreaking because his editor was rooting for him, and trying to help him, and clearly considered them friends; he'd been working hard up to that point to overlook Ben's behavior, but he just couldn't anymore.

And yeah, Ben was right about Fisk, and about what was going on. But that doesn't make what he was doing good journalism. He was distracted and obsessed, and he couldn't focus on his job anymore. He deserved to get fired.

Re: Unpopular fandom opinions

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It took me a couple viewings to realize that in the gym, Matt was talking about trying to beat up the editor guy, who turned out to be completely innocent, and holy shit would that have been sucky for editor guy, to be beat up by the Devil of Hell's Kitchen for no reason he could discern, but really mostly as a result of Karen's shitty badgering of Ben resulting in Ben's shitty badgering of his editor. And Doris thinking Ben went out some kind of hero when actually he was compromising all of his journalistic ethics for something that would have resulted in nothing (except a lawsuit from Fisk, maybe) makes it extra sad. Just heaps of sadness all around.