Bashir needs to fucking go. He kills content as much as he makes it. I've appreciated him as an element in the House but I've rarely liked him, and those that ride and die that ginga bewilder me.
Bashir is not funny, or silly, or chaotic. He's the straightest straight man to ever get on the show. He is probably the least entertaining fish in this season, and probably only beats Maruo and a few others across all seasons.
That being said, he's also the most genuine person across all seasons, despite wearing mostly what looks like costumes, the most religious, the most cultured, probably the smartest, and one of the most resilient. He doesn't watch Fishtank for entertainment, he watches because he likes people who are inherently, conceptually interesting. Josie was also among the least entertaining fish, but having her win hellhouse by playing with baby toys and spinning around in a chair is very interesting to him (and the majority of the fanbase, apparently). Bashir wants the show to be about interesting people, and he's willing to fight production over it.
Landon would 'mog' production, but never in a way that mattered. Landon has 'mogged' production in more entertaining ways that basically anyone else ever has, but never accomplished anything by doing it, and at the end of the day it only happened because Jet allowed it. When Landon threw piss and shrimp at Bashir, Bashir pointed out that Landon did not advance his game state at all, so it was pointless.
Bashir mogs production by playing an entirely different game than everyone else, where he sets up production to hand him wins by making them look like losses. He successfully mogged production with both sieges on Fort Drake. He didn't like the direction of the show and decided to go full throttle malicious compliance while loudly whining and complaining about how it was ruining the show, directly insulting both production and the show while physically demonstrating why he was correct, and left production in a position where they were forced to admit that Bashir was absolutely correct when he was bitching by stopping the assault, which they did. When the lesson didn't sink in he did it again with the second siege, where production had to interfere again (Bashir W), and then offered production a choice of either admitting Bashir won the second siege by making the fort stinky while his remained untouched, or take away his victory by admitting Bashir was correct that watching the janitor clean up messes is more interesting than watching him make them.
Even stuff like The Wire comment was just bullying production. He knows Ben likes the Wire and got production to continue making jokes that boiled down to "Ha ha, why would I want to make a good show when we could make a shitty one instead?" He's also planted an idea for another bottle episode acting challenge, specifically one that Ben would be interested in directing.
During the final battle, TTS, production, and all the freeloaders including his ally were trying to get him to attack fort Drake again, and he stuck by his guns that the strategic move was to defend his own fort. Had he gone to attack Drake, he would have failed again, and Landon and Binx would have stolen at least enough candy to get him eliminated over Landon.
He strikes me as that genre of sperg that has super rigid ideas about justice, morality, and right and wrong (in a good way). I think your read of him as a person is quite accurate. I don't know if he is the type of guy that would be fun to to interact with irl, but he is absolutely an extremely unique personality that almost feels like he is from a different era (in a way he is, with that medieval religion of his). He is also my favourite fish, just for that sheer uniqueness factor alone.
I think it would absolutely not be fun to hang out with Bashir, unless you think talking about religion or culture is "fun." Could probably discuss the inner psychology of lolcows with him though.
she's double checking with Kimmee on whose still here. Holy Romanian IQ. Dumbgay mogs her.
