#Benjamin Ferel

[amiracleilluminated]

[theimprobable1]

Men will be like “c’est toi mon idole” and then they block your exit from a maze and set you up to get arrested

[firewalkwithbeeee]

bro…

[cambrioleur]

[merciganimard]

I'm so fuckin sorry Benjamin

[imlovelace]

shout out to benjamin ferel for being my best friend

[cant-get-worse-than-this]

Benjamin taking a deep breath before talking to someone and then having a flawless social interaction is so real I love him he is me and I am him

[benjaminferel]

how it started:

how it’s going:

[fyeahsmokinhot]

This show really wants me to ship Assane and Ben!

Who am I to argue...🤷‍♀️

[amiracleilluminated]

Antoine Gouy as Benjamin Ferel in Lupin (2021- )

[theimprobable1]

Does anyone else think about Benjamin Ferel and get an overwhelming urge to go jump off the Arc de Triomphe or is that just me

[okonominyaki]

Screaming crying throwing up literally

Lupin season 3 spoilers up to ep4

Assane should have found another way; there WOULD HAVE BEEN another way. Ben has literally been there longer for him than his mother. Ben probably LOVES HIM MORE than his mother. Ben would literally do anything and everything for Assane and Assane goes and throws it all away. For the demands of a Kidnapper nonetheless this is so stupid. I’m honestly really kinda disappointed because

1. it doesn’t make sense from a *common sense* kind of perspective, give the Kidnappers what they want they just gonna keep demanding it’s super extremely stupid

2. doesn’t make sense from a characterization standpoint, Assane is this Good Guy (good crook? Robin Hood type?) who literally remembers people from decades ago who’d done him one (1) kindness and repays them tenfold. But his bff he just goes and stabs in the back like that? And like it’s nothing, too??

3. it’s just stupid

Doesnt seem like something Assane would do. Nor Lupin for that matter. I miss the first season :-(

[thatahjumma]

holy shit i cried

[cambrioleur]

In the interest of making this blog a bit more intelligent and less of a collection of dumb memes, here's an actual "hot take" that I have...

Ben is likable but he's also jaw-droppingly underdeveloped in the official canon of the show. Basically he's what TV Tropes terms a Satellite Character, in that he's almost always shown in the context of his interactions with other characters, with these scenes being from their viewpoint and not his. He never gets a real arc or storyline of his own: Claire and Guédira are consistently the central POV figures of the assorted B and C plots, while Ben appears in the A plots but in an exclusively supporting role.

The show actually DOES have opportunities to expand on his character a bit more but for whatever reason it never takes advantage of them. You'd think that Ben getting sold out by Assane and tossed in prison would have been a perfect candidate for this, but he appears in like three scenes in the last few episodes of Part 3, with these once again being mainly from the perspectives of Guédira, Claire, and Assane (not to mention that the audience still doesn't know exactly how he sustained all those injuries).

An additional issue is that so far, Ben hasn't had any meaningful conflict in his relationship with Assane, which seems unrealistic given what an utter mess Assane is a lot of the time. Claire has the obvious conflict of desperately wanting her relationship with Assane to work but being let down by him over and over again, and also having to deal with how his antics are negatively affecting their son. Guédira is an Assane Diop stan while also being a police officer who's supposed to be trying to jail him, which is a comedic conflict but it's a conflict nonetheless. We never get any of that with Assane and Ben; their friendship is fun but it's weirdly smooth-sailing. We don't know if they can survive the kind of turmoil that arises between Assane and Claire on a regular basis, because up until Ben gets thrown to the wolves at the gala, he's never been on the receiving end of Assane's dishonesty and erratic behavior. (This is why I actually think that the betrayal was a good narrative choice.)

So Ben's characterization is that he's the technically-competent friend who's also a loyal, solid dude...and that's it. We don't really know who he is in the same way that we know who Assane, Claire, and Guédira are. And the result is that the fans can project pretty much whatever they want onto him. If they want to say he's in love with Assane, fine, because there's nothing canonical that obviously confirms or refutes it. (In contrast I think it's fair to say that any notion of Assane reciprocating these potential affections is 100% fanon; the showrunners clearly view him as someone who can charm anyone he wants to while also being completely heterosexual, although one could argue that they're attempting to have their cake and eat it too.) The same is true if they want to say that Ben is in love with Claire, which is a theory that I've seen crop up a few times. My own opinion is that he's probably aroace or something along those lines, but at the same time I find the interpretation that he loves Assane to be plausible enough, although I have absolutely no emotional investment in it.

Anyway, bottom line...Ben's character should be developed more. Also I personally think he should turn on Assane. But that's just me.

[crashingmoons]

[iamtheansweringmachine]

they did you dirty my friend.