User blog comment:TDWT: Planes, Trains, and Hot Air Mobiles/Duncey vs. Gwuncan/@comment-24971793-20140702124055/@comment-1037137-20140702191802

She was loyal in that season to those she genuinely considered her friends and knew she could trust or tolerate. That wasn't very many people at that time, but she still did have a profound sense of loyalty to that handful. I'm not counting every individual with whom she had a mutual or friendly interaction with in Island, I'm counting the people whom she was the most open to and accessible to. And to them, that loyalty ran pretty strong until Action began to unravel things.

Yeah well being so passive about being openly blackmailed is where her character really began to fall apart, so that proves my point about her in Action. And after all she and Trent went through together and after how much they expressed genuine sentiment for each other, for it to suddenly not matter a damn that suddenly is bizarre, even for her. And Trent's worst crime was going overboard in trying to make her happy, that's not quite as heinous as cheating on her with Heather which was later found to not be even true. Not even a true last-ditch effort was made on her part to keep herself and Trent intact before she decided to just go straight for the bamhammer. The first person on the island she felt a hint of affection for and started bringing out her softer side and this is how little it meant in the end when they broke it off? It moved way too fast.

No, but her flaws in Island are in keeping with her character and feel much more believable than a lot of the crap she gets herself involved in almost immediately after it ended. So much so that people are questioning whether she's even the same person anymore or hell, even goth. I'm not even trying to say that Gwen isn't capable of making mistakes, of course that's not true, all of them have. but her actions in, well, Action and World Tour feel absurdly foolish for someone like her who despite being a loner knows what can and inevitably will come of the kind of things she ultimately ended up doing. Even in those seasons, the edge she had as a cynical and reserved but vulnerable goth girl really began to wear off. She knew that she had set herself up for the fall on multiple occasions, and yet she did them anyway and really got it handed to her from all sides each time. Gwen makes mistakes like everybody else, but in Island I never took her for a fool.