hm. you ever think about how Otto literally died for the city that hated him and this was seen by like dozens of students and probably some bystanders and it would have been a S.H.I.E.L.D.-level catastrophe if the Goblin Mech hadn't been stopped, and then there were seven people who attended his funeral.
It wasn't a funeral, it was a recognition of a piece of stone. There was no body to bury, there was no preacher, there was no real recognition of the life lost.
There was his former boss who he never made up with, the only person who truly believed in him, the person who called him his best friend only as and only because he died, the son of his enemy, and three of his ex-students who held no fondness for him.
a eulogy of "he was this, and I am blah blah blah." a single tear shed. flowers on an empty grave, less than I've gotten for simply giving someone a nice mug.
and then, the ending. an episode that didn't have the dignity to end on him. not even a shot of the grave past that. the person who died, the person who sacrificed himself because he was trying to be better. no, it ended on a shot of the grave of someone whose death has long since passed, long since been accepted, whose contributions and achievements have been appreciated a thousand times and more.
did his arc, his death, have any real affect on the characters? no. he was brought up as a backup for someone else's problems in the next season.
did he have to die? no. maybe the writers were tired of him, maybe they didn't get enough positive reviews about him, but he could have had a chance. he could have lived, and still left the story.
maybe it didn't have to be that way, maybe it could've been a little apartment in a different city, with a different life. you could have never said his name again, and it would be better than ripping him to pieces as you did.
