Thread:Wxyzwwww/@comment-1037137-20140731032017/@comment-1037137-20141025214619

As do I, for the most part. Cody looking back wasn't always the most fun to follow. I mean yeah, I rooted for him back then, but the selection wasn't all that ideal to me at the time. I had a very different outlook of the Final Four back then from TDWT.

Totally. Owen had more of a personality in TDI, but that doesn't mean he was a strong competitor; he wasn't. He was probably the least focused on the actual game. Nice guy, not exactly threatening, but he didn't get far because of his own competence, that much is plainly obvious. And now he's just a human fart factory, and that gets old very fast. Lightning only gets a few really funny lines here and there, but he has no story and just barely has a personality. People find the trio boring, and I now fully understand why they feel that way. But Lightning's not a great deal better. I had him pegged for early elimination in the entire season. I was always shocked at how he just got farther and farther along right up to the finale itself. They didn't do anything with the guy. So I wasn't too upset when he finally got that early elimination in All-Stars.

Scott and Courtney. Oh, I thought you disliked Courtney and enjoyed Scott, guess I got it backwards. My bad, man.

Scott.........At best he was tolerable in TDAS, but I haven't got much higher praise to offer him than that. I still think he was kind of OOC, and that his devious edge disappeared too completely for me to buy it. Where did it go after the second episode? Sure the fandom no longer hates the guy like they did during ROTI, but it was still off to me. But you know, to each his own.

Me too, I do enjoy Courtney and sympathize greatly with her. She should've been in the TDAS finale, it would've been infinitely more entertaining. The fact that it was building up like it was her season for a good chunk of it, and that she until a certain unwarranted turn of events had some of the only really good character development in the first two-thirds of the season really does not help matters, made a lot of us feel screwed over, those of us who were rooting for her to at the very least get lasting character development this time. Also her romance with Scott was far too random to be taken seriously and is the perhaps the most preposterous canonical pairing, but the fact that it was put in motion only to be voided later also doesn't help. I don't see the logic in anything they did with that final delivery, that was insanely frustrating, and that's putting it in the kindest terms I can manage right now. But I digress, bigtime. As a longrunning and iconic characters of the series and one of the principal All-Stars, she should've been in the finale, or at least go out with a much grander finish by now. Makes no sense that she'd never make Final Three or runner-up, what is up with that? And for two people who's romantic crisis is as compelling as watching paint dry? And yes, up against the likes of Owen and Lightning, no less. She deserves to be a finalist, not those guys.

It truly violates all common sense. And I do genuinely believe it would've been a stronger finish had she made it that far. Instead we got the biggest screwjob ever if you don't count the Zoey vs. Mal finale as being worse. But again, I must digress.