User blog comment:TheTDQueen2014/Who's the BEST and WORST Writer?/@comment-24245380-20141114044708/@comment-1037137-20141114082324

Ask Ed MacDonald and the creators that one. They let this slip by, I'd love to know what their excuse is or what they thought this was gonna bring them other than outrage. They've been messing with her character and rewriting her persona so many times it's maddening. They've pulled this villain bull**** with her three times already, this being the least called for instance of it. Given the unpopularity of that decision with Action, the first time they did it, that ought to have been the end of it. So what in hell is going on here that they need to keep doing it over and over? That's what I want to know. Yeah, she's an iconic character of the series which means that they ought to use her and write her better than that. Yes, she's been insufferable during these villainous streaks, which is why they should stop aggravating her fans and haters alike with that routine. She's dramatic, but there's gotta be a smarter way to do drama than this, with her and the rest of them. This is just incessant. She had plenty of redeeming qualities when she first started out to balance with her very real edginess and then-less frequent mean streak. Even in TDWT she was improving vastly before you-know-what took place. It was real at a time.

Though I have heard from some that the creators themselves don't like this episode. Not making that up, was told that some months ago.