User blog comment:PPPSSC/Ezekiel Is The Best (SATIRE)/@comment-3214036-20110210220611

But I will tell you that the Gollum-Ezekiel stuff was terrible, lazy writing and I'll tell you why. It is hardly brillant writing to treat a character like garbage until the point where they're not even recognizable as their former self. Giving him negative character traits such as being arrogant and delusional wasn't the "lazy writing". That stuff is perfectly acceptable and I never once expected him to be on the show the way he's portrayed in fan fiction. The "lazy writing" began pretty much after he was kicked off the plane. I liked the stowaway plot at first and would have been fine with it if he had remained human and actually had lines. Instead, the writers had him devolve into an incoherrent, bald, green thing seemingly just to spite his fans. And this happened just because he hung out in the cargo hold of a plane? Not only is that bad writing, it doesn't even make any sense. And the way they had his "plot" tie into the main one was from ripping off "The Return of the King". They didn't parody it. They just ripped it off, only replacing Gollum with Ezekiel and the ring with the million dollar case. So, that's why I feel it was very poor writing and I have yet to see any counter argument to make me feel the least bit differently.