User blog comment:Mattalamode/A Second Opinion: The Roots/@comment-9300845-20171010032127/@comment-31194372-20171010061659

Oooh, it's always nice seeing that golden comment show up! Nice to see you survived the great article hiatus, Zoe!

I don't get how people could take offense to the family's misguided efforts towards Darwin; if anything, they're doing almost the opposite of mistreatment by bending over backwards for him as much and as terribly as possible. It's almost sweet, in a baffling way, to watch the whole family take the most insane measures to make Darwin feel more at-home, and naturally, that also contributes to making the ultimate reversal all the better. I can sort of see the complaints a bit more with "The Outside," which makes for a shockingly-apt comparison (smart eye), though the problem there is that they perceive Frankie as possessing almost a sense of masochism, so the damage is intentional yet well-meaning as opposed to unintentional and well-meaning. The underlying tone in play here works better, in my opinion, more for how balanced and less questionable things get.

Either way, you can always rely on other people to misconstrue innocuous fun as something deeper and worth complaining about. On that note, check out new articles every Thursday! Heh... aww....