User blog comment:Smartbook/Characters's fanbases/@comment-1037137-20140822012433/@comment-1037137-20140822015046

I'd love to disregard that season's existence entirely, it's a disastrous addition to the canon. But yeah, probably best to ignore it in ranking characters, as its killing point is its character treatments.

True that, Mike's been thoroughly ruined by that season, and I would gladly join any protest of his return if it were even considered. He wasn't that hot a ticket in Revenge either, looking back on it now.

But the characters have been faring poorly for a long time, that's something else to consider. Never really got over Gwen's negative transformation or that of so many others.