User blog comment:Katapultman/My Take On "The Hero". An analysis of its downfall./@comment-27980194-20170717034536

A little kinks here and there, but ultimately an excellent blog post nontheless.

The main thing that resonated me was with your criticism of Gumball in this episode, and I ultimately agree with it as a whole. The main thing the writers seem to try to do in this episode is exaggerate Gumball's flaws so that we end up rooting for Richard. The main effect of it however is that I myself just kind of ended up rooting against Gumball (I myself enjoy a bit of karma and get a sense of schadenfreude from it). Gumball is just too unlikeable this episode, and unfortunately the rather perfectly executed ending of this episode doesn't make up for it.