User blog comment:ThomasVeggieDramaFan/Pahkitew Island: One Year Later/@comment-27329394-20150629031753/@comment-4742462-20150629032822

There are a million different directions they could've gone in with Dave that didn't result in something that came across as the writers desperately wanting to do something different and not caring about how awful the outcome would be.

The biggest problem with Scarlett Fever outside of Scarlett not being developed enough, is that the entire episode is screwed over by how much of a slap to the face the Anti-Climax is. And this is coming from somebody who considers it the only worthwhile episode after the first two.