User blog comment:AGuyHere/Best and Worst Version of that Character: Heather/@comment-2212492-20150221062653

TDI: If you're talking about the flaw, the main reason that Heather managed to survive in most of the episodes is because I suppose the other contestants thought that they could ally with her (Duncan for example who actually did try) and in the earlier episodes, she was able to manipulate the males such as Cody and Owen and with them she was probably able to manipulate Izzy, since that's the way that Justin got eliminated. Another high point in Heather's character was that she wasn't boring, there was a lot of unpredictableness about how things would play out with her, especially the cooking challenge ordeal with Beth and Leshawna, which was one of the high points of the season. But I do agree that some people seemed to have forgotten how characters like Gwen and Leshawna vowed to vote Heather out but didn't, instead getting rid of Geoff and Izzy. TDA: I can't say I agree with what you said here, sure Heather might have not been the main focus in most of the episodes but you can't really blame the writers having made her talk so many times. She slowly and gradually developed and was actually improving her interactions with Harold and Leshawna, and heck she didn't even want DJ to leave. Sure, she still hated Gwen for making them lose but what suspicious player wouldn't hate her? I get where you're coming from though, but she didn't interact much with the other team because that was Courtney and Duncan's job since they were going to end up with them when the merge happened, this season was basically getting rid of the final three in order for some other characters to get development and that's why I liked it. Heather was also eliminated at the right time and the hair gag was kind of funny. TDWT: This was the turning point of Heather's character, she had finally completed her development here and I think the only reason Team Amazon was made and not eliminated was that Heather could try and secure alliances with all four of them, even if she did fail with Gwen and Sierra. And she was pretty unfairly treated by Leshawna, whom she secured a friendship with only to get a beat down. She turned into the anti-hero for this season since almost everyone seemed to be rooting for her after Cody got eliminated so that showed they liked her better than Alejandro. I can't say she was soft, like you said she was pretending to be kind because the other contestants knew about her tactics by this point and she was probably thinking of not taking any risks, since the outcome wouldn't be good. TDAS : Heather was probably the contestant who reached the farthest without being majorly derailed since the first five eliminated were the ones who got out of Total Drama All Stars safely. Her conflict with Jo was pretty hilarious to watch and her feud with Alejandro was also amusing. I also loved when Alejandro finally did confess his love for Heather in Suckers Punched with Jose because that was the right way to end things.  Not everything went well with Heather this season, she knew that she could have easily manipulated Scott but then Scottney had to happen so they never even interacted. And it doesn't seem like Heather to hide her idol in the challenge area, she'd check around to see if anyone was there before that or hide it someplace else which wasn't too obvious. And she felt a little out of character in the finale when she was flirting with Alejandro. And she didn't even interact with any of the new comers or Gwen since I would have liked to hear her take on the derailment trio.  So the rankings are: 4) TDAS 3) TDI 2) TDA 1) TDWT