i REALLY like how zac just clearly fully checked out once comfrey died. he just starts going like, what's happening? monty or van ask him what he's doing and he says i- i don't know. pappy throughout this season has been so incredibly calm and collected. a pillar of coolness. aloof and unyieldingly measured. and here is a moment where, for the first time, he just seems like an old, old man.

As an older sibling who also frequently doesn’t know what’s going on, Wealwell going back to back with Maxwell and saying, “And who the fuck are you?” to Comfrey is so meaningful to me. He definitely did not recognize Comfrey. But what he did recognize was that Comfrey was making his little brother uncomfortable, and he was going to do whatever he could to make Maxwell feel supported while insulting the person who caused that discomfort

ludmila sitting by a doorway rusting and wasting away and slowly becoming nothing but rage and vengeance and marya sitting in a toy shop rusting and wasting away and slowly becoming nothing but guilt and regret and comfrey refusing to sit still long enough for the emotions to catch up to her and putting everyone and everything in danger because of it i am unwell

An implication from Monty saying that he toned down the books because they are for children is that that means that the Comfrey that made Olethra so excited to go adventuring isn't the real Comfrey, but a version created by Monty to be a compelling protagonist.