User blog comment:Katapultman/My Take on "The Ape" and Miss Simian: Is Comedy More Important than a Character?/@comment-31194372-20171012005123/@comment-31194372-20171014054807

Oh, I get the whole "any publicity is good publicity" mindset, but it's kind of frustrating to see how the show will take as many seemingly desperate measures as possible just to get attention, ruining perfectly solid episodes ("The Nuisance") or compromising its own sensibilities for the sake of checking boxes ("The Worst"), among other, smaller offenses scattered about. I'll probably just bottle up all of my repetitive Season 5 thoughts for now, though, when I actually discuss the season in retrospect - I feel like there's so much to talk about that not carving out a whole article dedicated to it would be a waste of an opportunity.

I was initially a bit more on the edge about the character considering that she does admittedly fall into the sadistic teacher stereotype, but when she does it so effortlessly, why even complain? (Yes, I'll just casually disregard the whole attack article.) Those episodes, though, offer the chance to remind us that the character is still human (ape?) and that she makes errs in her judgement all the same. I actually don't mind when the show goes off to demonstrate that part of her character because it never uses the "development" to turn off the viewer in that we can accept these moments as precious anomalies that don't set precedents, aaaand I'm probably just repeating everything I already wrote.

Gr'ob.