User blog comment:IronBloodAika/How Sundae Muddy Sundae Could NOT Have Sucked/@comment-24152851-20140901024207/@comment-1037137-20140901043716

I know, and there are only so many characters among the screenhogs that have been exploited and constantly rewritten at every turn at the insane rate that Courtney has been, and frankly it's become excessive and lacking in any sense, structure, productivity, anything. It's been entirely counterproductive, and no single character should be exploited and constantly interchanged to the nth degree like that. That includes characters like Gwen, Duncan, and so many others who have just hogged the screen only for the payoff to turn up empty and frustrating. It is pretty insane how the writers do have them constantly jumping all over the place and/or simply not developing meaningfully. It gets confusing and annoying, everybody was a much more balanced character in the first season where they all had their good traits and their flaws that played out hand in hand believably and realistically. Now we got a "Writer of the Day" thing going that's become all too apparent, where too many clashing plotlines and flat out bad ideas are crashing into each other and confusing everything we knew about everyone and everything from the old days. It's just crazy, sorry if I'm rambling.

Yeah, it's momentary drama vs. the long term productivity of the surrounding stories. They're thinking in the short term, not the long term. And somehow managing to contradict themselves constantly as a result of that mindset. And in focusing almost exclusively on drama, including toxic drama primarily, they've neglected all other elements to a disastrous degree.

That was TDA, if they did that once and left it to that, then okay. Still was a bad idea, but it'd be excusable. Wasn't exactly the favorite season of a lot of people anyway for like seven dozen other reasons. But that was years ago, leave that in the past and get some consistent and hopefully positive again for both Courtney and the other characters. There are just some routines you shouldn't keep going for longer than they have to, especially when they've been shown not to resonate well with those who are watching.