User blog comment:Mattalamode/The Harold Problem (and Vanillagate)/@comment-30307603-20170420215741/@comment-31194372-20170422153957

I don't think "The Cycle" was trying to imitiate "The Fury," because if it was, they would've done more with Harold than just leave him as a loose end. Plus, Yuki's torment was properly humorous because it was designed to be comical and unbelievable - fake psychology notwithstanding, Harold didn't do anything that wasn't annoying schoolyard antics. We find it engrossing because it's ridiculous, which Harold was not (until the end, the point of no return).

Okay, I'll say this much about "The Rex:" we can't keep setting it up to be a legendary episode when there's a good chance that, had it come out, it would just be another episode unlike any others. We only think lovingly of it because we know that we will never attain it (a la the darker version of "The Downer"- as interesting as it would be, I'm pretty sure they re-worked it because the original didn't work). If it was such a great episode, why wouldn't the production team cut corners and pull back on another episode just to pour more money into this one? Even Ben said it was "too expensive and not worth the price." However good it might've been, it wasn't worth fighting for in their eyes, and their word on the matter should be final.