Thread:Ttowen/@comment-1037137-20140814200637/@comment-3553617-20140815002933

Their treatment of Courtney (and Gwen by proxy) really disturbed me. They spent so much of the season explaining her actions and motivations to why she stayed clear of the other campers and tried to focus on the game. Namely that Gwen's betrayal hurt her and that she wouldn't make the same mistake in trusting others, thus her less than enthusiastic interaction with her teams. This was actually a bit of good writing, not because it was something we wanted to see, but because it made perfect sense and developed from the plotline of last season. Courtney was still hurting and not willing to trust again. That's what made the moments with her and Gwen the highlights of episodes, we wanted to see Gwen make up to Courtney and Courtney forgive her. We even got a bit of help in that regard from her shocking relationship with Scott. It helped bring back those more positive traits of her character, the parts that constant betrayals and backstabs dash away. And when she and Gwen finally made up we felt that Fresh had finally listened to us. And then SMS happened.

I have never seen an episode so poorly written, so blantantly against a specific character, that it was blantant straight from the sneak preview. Courtney spontaneously, with no build up or reason, plots the exact order on how she'll win. Problem is she has no reason to do this, she's never once made mention of it and has said time and again that if she couldn't win she'd hope Gwen would (and confirmed in the Confessional). And why the fuck would she create a crudely drawn chick-scratch list to illustrate this. She's never written lists like this. Even more pressing, how in the hell did Mal get it. He just some how had it. No reason given. Apparently he's fucking magic now too.

This episode was all about people laying shit on Courtney, but with the way they were all written, Courtney especially, they didn't even sound like themselves. It sounded more like someone writting a bash fic. The kind were everyone is spontaneously jerks and gangs up on the author's least favorite character. That's what this felt like. Even Al and Heather, who I remind you have done far, far, FAR worse than merely conspire against someone, never got this level of shit thrown at them in any of the episodes they've been in.

And let's not forget the level of continuity errors this had. Like how Courtney being in 5th ISN'T the farthest she's ever made, making it to 4th in Action. Also there's the issue of her being lactose intolerant, meaning she couldn't eat that ice cream even if she wanted to. Oh and suddenly Chris, the man who doesn't bat an eye if his interns die, starve, or get eaten by bears, suddenly has standards in not feeding them Courtney's ice cream, but changes the rules specifically so that she'll lose.

FUCK YOU.

This episode was so bad, that people who didn't even care about Courtney, Gwen, or their friendship could see the pile of shit this episode was. In a good story we can blame a character for their actions, but in a bad story we blame the writer and this was a BAD story. Within the first TEN MINUTES this episode rendered everything the season had been building up and developing since the first episode of the season completely and utterly pointless. Fucking brilliant!

This episode is so f'ing horrendous and adds to my belief that you could literally wipe all of All-Stars from continuity and nothing would change. Seriously, nothing. Courtney and Gwen aren't friends, Zoey and Mike are still together after overcoming their issues (AGAIN), Heather and Al are still whatever the hell they are, Duncan's still a douchebag, and nothing of value developed from any of the other characters to warrant mentioning. Nothing changed from the ending of World Tour except maybe Gwen and Duncan splitting up, but since this show likes to split up couples between seasons that's no big deal.

TL;DR SMS SUCKS AND IT KILLED ALL-STARS FOR ME! IT IS THE COMPLETE PITS OF WRITING AND PROBABLY THE WORST EPISODE IN THE ENTIRE FRANCHISE!

Sorry for that, but I REALLY needed to get that off my chest.