Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-7264949-20150130173310/@comment-4542120-20150217193725

TheRegularFan wrote: Tamsin Parker wrote: This is a nice, silly, fun episode.

Although I've had the feeling for a long time that the writers just don't know what to do with Benson any more. Maybe it's because Benson's character is character is shifting away from the anger and screaming like in the first few seasons into a bit of a more rounded or even 'neutral' type of character. I don't think the writers 'don't know what to do', but I feel like he's turning away from a 'one trick pony' type of character, which may make things seem a bit 'off' in comparison to Benson from say, a season 1-3 episode. The same goes for Muscleman. It used to be mostly 'my mom' jokes up until they started to explore other things with him. Benson had the purpose of being a 'puzzle piece' or a fulfiller to the prophecy in this episode, but due to time constraints, I feel like it could have been explored more. A 30 minute episode would have been nice, or maybe a pt.3 or something like that. It looked like an attempt to make a 30 minute special in to a regular episode, which there are lots of reasons for. My opinion remains mixed, but I still liked this episode in a lot of ways... His character has been developed a lot, I agree with you. It's also a bit inconsistent, but that of course depends on who's writing the episode.

I also agree with you that Benson being a prophecy fulfiller could have been explored more.