User blog comment:Stryzzar/Who is the Greatest Antagonist?/@comment-24291196-20140607073713/@comment-24152851-20140607095259

Thankyou Fireoverwater. IKR, I absolutely love when particular villains and heroes get paired together for a rivalry. Like Owen/Gwen and Heather, Harold and Duncan, Beth and Courtney, Cody/Sierra and Alejandro, the ROTI trio and Scott. I really thought that was the approach they were going for in TDAS when I saw the opening, but nup. As for Mal, there was so much they could have done with his character, but all that potential got wasted. I agree, he would have 10x better if he was paired with a proper rival. They really could have expanded on Al VS Mal to more than that one episode.