User blog comment:TDWTisAWESOME/TDWT Love Triangle. Why all the Hate?/@comment-1037137-20150310191044/@comment-1037137-20150310230054

The love triangle is a black mark on what would've been that much more of an awesome season, which was already a huge step up from TDA before this crap began to unfold. TDA suffered mostly because it was boring and because it messed with many then-popular and well-liked characters. TDWT went to the extreme with this plotline and was extremely frustrating from that point onward, and cranked up the constant meddling and taking of liberties with the characters to eleven. And it never answered for it. They never answered for it. Gwuncan might've ended in TDAS, but even it needed a much smarter and more sensible exit if they were gonna undo the aftermath of this debacle. But again, that just demands why we endured this at all. It's no worse than the very sloppy breakup of Gwent, something TDA still takes fire for even now.

Tom McGillis himself admitted this to be the case on YouTube two years ago, saying that Teletoon's creative department insisted on this plot point being included. Supposedly, to show that "young love doesn't always last" from what I have heard in past accounts. Seeing how this season seemed to try to justify the backwards actions of everyone involved in the triangle as it was boiling over, I find it to be laughable that they claimed to be trying to teach something meaningful from it.