User blog comment:ThatGuy456/A Guy's Thoughts: Slight Shortcoming/@comment-31194372-20181121071256/@comment-30307603-20181121142452

Thanks, man! It's always nice to get one of your comments!

Yeah, I guess I cannot be too hard on how the staff handled Penny post-"The Shell." It was the first huge permanent change in the show's narrative, and for a while, it was actually doing a good job keeping up with itself while still staying true to the show. Likewise, while it still doesn't excuse the absolute butchering in character integrity that "The Ex" did to him, Rob is a tragic case of the show pacing itself far too quickly. Regardless, there were much better ways to go about his reinclusion.

Interesting you bring up your feelings regarding the execution of Darwin and Carrie as a couple. While what happened with Rob was the most egregious from the perspective of character integrity, the argument could be made that what happened with Darwin and Carrie is far more egregious from a more mechanical viewpoint. What is essentially a throwaway gag from an episode years prior is brought back into the limelight and is built up to be something meaningful only for the show to do essentially nothing with it. A shame, too, as there is a lot to be done with the characters, such as how Darwin brings out a more vulnerable side in Carrie or how Darwin's dependent nature on Gumball plays into their relationship.

Thanks for the cheers. Now, if you will excuse me, I'll make my way to the corner and shudder over the fact that it was my hands that gave life to "A Blog With Wrong Opinions"