Thread:ThatScrewyDuck/@comment-31647719-20190930034955/@comment-39032584-20190930181637

Oh hi, I just saw your message. How do I feel about him as a character? Not very strongly for the better or worse I suppose. If anything, I guess I found him to be a somewhat interesting villain since he's so different from all the others on the show so far; unlike them, it wasn't even apparent that he was a villain at first, and he certainly raised the stakes since his actions and ambitions threatened the whole world's wellbeing. Plus, because of that, I feel like the series ended up getting a very exciting finale where not only was the family finally completed reunited, but we got to see virtually all their allies team up to try and stop the threat he posed.

So in the end, I guess my opinion of him is pretty positive. Obviously, he was easy to dislike and root against (which is usually the case with complete monsters), but he helped create a finale that was even more exciting, and and at least just as emotionally rewarding, as the finale of the first season. He's not especially deep and/or muti-dimensional at the end of the day, and he's certainly not among my favorite all-time villains or anything like that. However, to use the terminology of this wiki, he was definitely a "game-changer" who brought a level of excitement and stakes that I found welcoming since most of the other villains have been entertaining, but too incompetent and/or comical for me to be that worried about what was going to happen. The only thing I hope is that he'll stay unique in that respect; in other words, that he doesn't mark the beginning of more planetary threats like him showing up. Not only do the upcoming villains like F.O.W.L. and Negaduck seem like they'll be credible and threatening without going that far, but while the planet's well-being made for an exciting climax in this last season, I feel like normalizing that would be too dark and dramatic for a show like this.