User blog comment:TDIFan13/Dave and Sky vs. Mike and Zoey/@comment-24152851-20140711064804

While I'm not going to say Mike and Zoey was done well (very shoddy writers as usual). I think there was a reason why they chose to go for more "normal" protagonists for ROTI. Looking back at all the past protagonists: we've got an obese, flatulent streaker, a loner with bleached hair, a lawbreaker with a knife fetish, Ugly Betty's third cousin, a stoned nerd who thinks he's a ninja, a midget who's a creepy stalker, the creepier stalker of creepy stalker, and a shriveled shrimp who broke his back because a butterfly landed on him. Anyway, after all these fairly extreme, unusual stereotypes for prev. protagonists, I think it's understandable why they felt like it was time to make the protagonists more "normal" and by extension "boring" (those words often come hand in hand, don't try to deny it). It was not done well, but the original intention was understandable.
 * Disclaimer: For anyone who feels offended by my description, they are intentionally exaggerated, and I just bashed some of my personal favorite characters as well.