Mallory Rubin
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Because he definitely could have.
just turned on the sink I mean like there's a million I feel like when she because I feel like in that moment she goes Ben but I really feel like she wanted to be like Nick Nick you can just rinse the glass Nick we're already over that's incredible what about the emotion did any of the emotional moments hit you I mentioned I really liked the bench scene between Robbie and Ben at the end I quite enjoyed that I thought that was like a
Truly, agree.
The poor drowned Ruby.
It does also seem, we don't know all the particulars, he should have been able to get to her, I think.
By the time I got into the lake, I definitely still could have saved her.
But he was drunk.
A couple whiskey tumblers deep at that point, I think.
It's interesting because, like, what you guys are saying, the selfish, callous, like, not a great guy thing he's done is decide to stop being the spider for five years, right?
And so then when, like, Robbie and his friends have to talk him into, like, you know, when Robbie says, like, well, you have the choice to, like, help these people now.
But I think to your point, like, the part where he is, because the Cat and Ruby stuff doesn't really work, I agree, right?
The place that the Lady Judas stuff sends Ben to actually still did work for me, particularly because he's being so goofy.
He's like mining the depths of his feelings, but he's doing it in a kind of like really exaggerated way.
So when he's in the fight with the guys at the bar, these strangers who he feels like the need to defend himself to, even though they like
They're nobody of consequence to him.
And he's like, you know, maybe the spider's a god just like anyone else.
You ever think about that?
You ever wonder what his problems were?
He's swinging around burning buildings, saving people.
You ever think he feels the heat or gets sad or tired or lonely?