YMMV / Saving Me

• Alternative Character Interpretation: How good of parents are Mark and Carla Bramble?
  • On the one hand, Mark and Carla Bramble are shown to be loving parents who care about all their three kids and do their best to raise them while they're living double lives working for the government and keeping secrets from their children.
  • However, despite being shown to be good parents and good people, Mark and Carla Bramble still failed to raise their son Bennett Bramble to be a good person, turning him into a man who would destroy his relationship with his family and friends. This implies they were, at least, somewhat neglectful of their son's emotional problems.
  • To Mark and Carla Bramble's credit, they probably would chuck up Bennett's problems with his siblings to typical sibling rivalry and Bennett's issues with his friends because of his selfishness for something they were in the dark about because he never came to them with that problem. And when Mark and Carla Bramble see Bennett Bramble having issues with his siblings, they attempt to correct the problem. The older Bramble puts the blame on himself for his unhappy life rather than lash out at his family.
  • However, despite Mark and Carla Bramble's positive traits as parents and people, it's implied that in the original timeline, Older Bennett Bramble's negative traits continue to grow at an alarming rate, with his parents not doing anything about it until it was too late, and there's the fact that Bennett Bramble's have these negative traits in the first place despite being raised by them all his life.
• Heart Warming Moments: Pretty much any time Bennet makes up with who ever he irked, or otherwise disappoints in a given episode.
  • In general, the show's premise is pretty heartwarming when one thinks about it - an old man going back in time to alter his life course so he can become a better person and subsequently picking up a newfound appreciation for the family he lost. One particular example that stands out would be Young Bennett's gift to Carla in the Mother's Day episode, which is just sweet - a jar containing little notes with everything Bennett is thankful to his mother for.
• Spiritual Antithesis:
  • Some professional critics have described the show as a family-friendly version of Rick and Morty due to the shared element of Science Fiction adventures between a boy and an older man. But whereas Rick & Morty makes it clear that Rick is meant to be an awful individual whose adventures with Morty are destructive to his relationships and a toxic influence on the latter, Future Bennett is a surly but sincerely regretful individual whose adventures with his younger self are an effort to mend his relationships and improve Young Bennett as a person.
  • It can also be thought of as a Spiritual Antithesis to Johnny Test. Both shows are Canadian-American, Flash-animated cartoons in the vein of Dexter's Laboratory whose protagonists are self-centered 11-year-old boys using science and technology to solve their problems. But whereas Johnny Test's title protagonist is a Static Character and Idiot Hero who takes his sisters' inventions to use for short-sighted personal gains or to entertain himself, Bennett Bramble is a Child Prodigy who creates his own inventions for the purpose of becoming a better person and improving his relationships.