BLUE MOON

benny is such a funny character to stan. no you're not doomed by the narrative you stupid son of a bitch. get up and get out.

i am also a fan of making fun of benny for his loser ways, but i hope the class understands he is. actually really smart. he was the first of the chairmen to understand the underlying threat of house's offer - adapt or disappear - and he's been living by the lesson ever since. he's the only one in the strip who understands that the absence of a man like house is a sign of something big in the works. his whole plan is really complex and well executed! the thing that trips benny isn't the lack of intellect, it is his own pride. it's another big parallel between him and house. his failed attempt to sneak into the fort illustrates this perfectly. caesar tells the courier his men only spotted benny because he (consciously or not) failed to mussle his hair up for the disguise. and that is his entire achilles heel condensed: great plans and guts for execution that are only as sturdy as a small man's ego. the courier would have had no idea who shot them if benny didn't make the khans take the bag off their head in the first place. if he could have went without his little speech to a doomed stranger that was never meant to comfort them. but he couldn't.