I agree, his solution was actually not as "bad" as the previous ones (remember the camp where he made 4 girls reset their "friend status"?). For me, no one got hurt here, not even Hachiman himself. It might be different when Tobe's friends talk about it at school though but there is Hayama, who knows how to handle that and could probably stop any "badmouthing" comming from them.I'm not complaining about the story, which I love. I'm complaining about the characters' actions, which I hated. The two of them smiled and entrusted (handed over because they can't do shit) the issue to him, and when he does something about it, they get pissed at him. Jerks.
Tobe was "okay" with it
Ebina was glad he did it.
Hayama has no right to really complain about how it was done. He *asked* him to do it, it's not like he didn't know how he would do it.
And Yui + Yukino could neither do anything themselves nor was there any reason for them to "pity" him.
I mean... why?
Ebina knew what was going on, Hachiman was lying anyway - and would you feel hurt if someone says "no" to your half-assed love confession?
For me this was a nice way of telling Tobe to give up for now... Neither Ebina nor Tobe had to face any consequences and they arn't even mad at Hachiman, Tobe even said/acted like something that could be translated as "No hard feelings", so why all this "stop hitting yourself" stuff.
Well, maybe Yui+Yukino wanted them to conclude this by letting Tobe get shot down, but they fail to show even the slightest amount of understanding for Hachiman. Just consider the situation he was in, with having to deal with not just one side of the story (Tobe's) but also with Ebina's, Hayama's and Yumiko's.
Of course, both of them didn't know that, but they wouldn't even let him explain either... not that it would've made much of a difference, seeing how Hachiman would probably lie about it and try to justify it without mentioning anything related to the "informal" request he recieved during the trip.
edit: for the episode itself
I had a few problems with it... it's not only that it felt rushed but I believe they didn't let us hear Hachiman inner thoughts enough. S1 had him talk more about how the world around him is biased, wrong and fake etc. and we didn't even get much of a reaction out of him when Hayama revealed his inability to do anything here. It was supposed to be a rather impactful scene, wasn't it? Let's not forget that Hayama nearly punched him in the freaking face right at the end of S1.
His train of thought was missing in my opinion, I guess they couldn't spare enough time to fit it all in (especially in the earlier parts during the trip)... which saddens me, because - well I might be wrong here - it's what made people like the show, isn't it?
At least I want more of his judgemental, darker innser side.
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