Thread:Ttowen/@comment-1037137-20140814200637/@comment-1037137-20140814220831

This character had a much stronger sense of honor in Island and even the first half of World Tour in spite of her overly competitive and impatient nature. Her worst traits began to take over the more time she spent with Duncan, as she became obsessed with him. But finally in TDAS she puts him behind her and expresses regret over how things worked with Gwen despite her open bitterness towards her. Why would she admit something like that to Lindsay who she also doesn't get along well with? All signs pointed to it being a genuine admission. She's no saint in All-Stars anymore than in some of her other outings, but she hates the villain label too and is cast much more like her Island self in the second act. Hotheaded but capable of being civil and even sociable. And aside from the Mal fiasco which was obviously what they were the most obsessed with in the script, Gwen and Courtney's reconciliation is the biggest subplot of the season, and the one to receive the second-highest focus. And it took three years for it to finally happen. Sure, you don't have to portray them as best friends, but reconciliation alone works fine. Would've made more sense to just let them finally bury the hatchet on cordial terms if the friendship element seemed played up a little too strongly in some episodes (And admittedly, it was at some points). But they finally achieve all of that, and then this miserable piece of crap pulls this twist out of nowhere and undoes ALL of that, and villifies Courtney as an excuse to humiliate her in the cruelest way possible. Come on, they did all of that in Action and World Tour's second half, what purpose did that serve here to play it a third time after ALL of what came before? And once she's been reduced to a total wreck, the season carries on like you're just supposed to forget it ever happened or mattered to anyone, right up to the last bitter moments of the finale. And frankly I'm not too happy with Gwen either as a result of this mess either. And overall, it's just an insanely cruel and mean-spirited episode (Don't forget that the interns were left starving to death offscreen as well). Possibly the cruelest I've ever witnessed.

Fresh TV, it does NOT work that way! You get us invested in something for that long that had considerable support and then you abandon it out of the blue and expect the masses to just look past it completely? Get this straight, it does NOT work that way.

They say they do the things most conducive to the story and the drama that comes with it. It's crap like this that makes me call complete bull**** on that. Because they openly blew away one of the only redeeming factors in this entire mess. It should be no surprise that this episode is where the backlash really became widespread.