Thread:Fire Eater/@comment-24152851-20141126042007/@comment-1037137-20141209071115

Well then I hope you won't be too offended that I did add him to the Scrappy section on TVTropes on.......Well, the Scrappy page for Western Animation several days ago. Criticism of him, like or not, has been pretty intense due to his position as one third of the infamous trio. But it definitely is appropriate to call him a base breaker as well. You are probably correct that his hate base still isn't quite as unanimous as that of Mike and Zoey, who take more heat than any other single character in this fandom. Which is a truly impressive (And unfortunate) distinction to bear in a cast that's grown this large. Anyway, I can still defend Cameron's role in ROTI personally, he wasn't really as bad as his hatedom claims him to be there. TDAS is an entirely different story, and I've definitely lost my motivation to rush to his defense as a result of it I'm sorry to say, but perhaps the hatedom for him gets a little too intense when it takes both his seasonal runs into account.

The character wrecking in this series is definitely its worst and most infuriating problem. And there needs to be a bracing effort to eliminate that matter in future seasons. And to do whatever is possible to fix the mess that presently stands. But I digress, the gimmicky characters is still a silly element to have allowed in, I don't like it when characters are designed and created only to be extras or dead weight. That's the kind of thing that made Staci so forgettable, one of the earlier gimmick characters. Nobody in TDI was a gimmick, even Ezekiel (Pre-mutation) was not someone I'd call a gimmick when he was just a normal human being. While I am glad to hear that character wrecking was not one of the issues with this season that I admit, I still haven't watched yet, what they did to Dave and by extension Sky to a lesser extent is still evidence of how much the problem still persists. Dave seemed to have a decent-sized fandom upon his debut and is now one of the most divisive characters in the series. And not in a good way. That really does seem to be the only other thing besides said gimmicks that tarnished an otherwise decently-received season. But yeah, after All-Stars which utterly wrecked so many popular characters, anything that doesn't resort to something like that in anywhere near the same degree probably is gonna be better received.

Yeah, I hope my criticism of the writers doesn't bug you too much though, I hope it's not too much of an issue. I'll try not to get too heavy handed with it in our chats if necessary.

He had no part to play in TDA, and bringing him back to stir up trouble for the finalists was a moronic move that didn't pay off. I'm guessing the writers had written themselves into a corner and needed to salvage what they could for the second half as this thing was dragging out. Still, I think quite a few have argued him being a spy was against his nature. And sure, he made a decent contrast to the others in TDI and actually had a few more engaging moments in that season where he actually did compete seriously, but that ballast to his happy-go-lucky self has since been discarded and now he's strictly comic relief, of the stale kind at that. Fart humor can be funny, but if you're solely doing fart humor, you're gonna get annoying very fast. It's like Batman and Robin's overreliance on bad puns. And again, his last cameo.........Worst abuse of his brand of bad comedy yet. If Owen absolutely must make yet another really unnecessary return, then put some meat onto his character and his presence. Fart gags alone shouldn't be the bare minimum of what we settle for with this or any character.

P.S. Sorry for being extremely talkative and longwinded, I know all too well that I lay it on kind of thick. Force of habit, I can't help it. ^^;