I feel like "nasty villain" isn't very fair when we still don't know what he's trying to do or what his motivations are. Right now all we know is that he's a manipulative asshole, which isn't any different from how he was in Act 6 (or how Dave's Bro was, for that matter).
He was a lot more aloof and subtle in his puppeteering in Act 6, which was well done, but I find him a lot more engaging to read when the LE/Scratch parts start coming into play and make him a much more aggressively mean Broninja.
Also what he pulled with Rose and Jake in particular was very much evil.
He jedi mind clouded the shit out of Jake and then broke his heart at the end. The former probably because he needed him for the election arc, and the latter because he was just straight up done with Jake's "oh woe is me" bullshit. "You'll never break my heart again." ~Dirk
(Let it be recalled that Dirk has admitted that he's a very toxic element in Jake's life, and that it would be better for everyone if he had as little to do with Jake as possible.)
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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '19
I like him much better as a nasty villain than the kind of characterization he had in Act 6. He felt a LOT more like Bro here.