Thread:Stryzzar/@comment-1037137-20141228235252/@comment-1037137-20141229050657

Her TDAS portayal is a deluded distortion of what she used to be, and made her an unsympathetic a** who was brainless, sappy, and once again unable to get her priorities in order even when the season looked like it might've finally been looking to straighten her out.

For the record, I am NOT against her trying to make amends with Courtney in TDAS. That was a major sore point for myself and others as a result of World Tour and there were many of us eager to see a meaningful reconciliation, which obviously is beyond the understanding or capacity of these people. I liked the idea, but the execution was sloppy. I don't hate the story, I dislike the execution and above all I LOATHE the destruction of the resolution.

Gwen did come off as overly self-conscious and overly sappy, two things she is not by law. A lot of her actions also lacked in logic and like so many others, was massively dumbed down just to pave way for that freaking Zoke plot that tainted so much. She barely resembled her gothic self in TDAS, which misses the point of her character almost entirely, lacking any of the wit or passive nature that personified her. And as you said, her interactions with the ROTI cast were really rushed, none of them really developing and perhaps even working in contradiction to herself. I mean you know how badly mocked Gwen is for befriending "The Trio"? I kind of see why now. Played out too fast and seemed to steal priority from anything else involving her.

And again, her attitude and lack of priority made her deplorable in TDAS. I was all for her breaking up with Duncan given the circumstances under which she hooked up with him which was when she seriously started coming off as a selfish a** of a character, but how the breakup ultimately took place, out of the blue and with no logical buildup to it actually coming to pass, and then rarely being acknowledged afterward made that a hugely dissatisfying moment in spite of my having waited for it for a while. It happened too fast and her reasons for it were stupid and barely explained. I was absolutely disgusted by her conduct in totally abandoning her reconnection with Courtney, she didn't even try to salvage things and came off as cruel and stupid as everyone else in that episode. And boy, did I want to smack her for her callousness, I still do.

As I've said many times before, you DON'T spend a whole season building up something just to wreck it later. Hard for me to take her side in an already deplorable episode when she's no better than anyone else or the person she feels bitter towards. Just another reason to hate that episode in my opinion. And to make matters worse Booty-ful dumbed her down bad, not even caring about the prior events I just mentioned at that point and actually handling bear dung to save her butt in the challenge? What was she thinking? That's not Gwen at all, that's someone who is both massively OOC and just asking for trouble. At that point I can't really say I felt sorry about her elimination, as disgustingly OOC everything was made just to justify it.

And her behavior in the finale, not caring about anyone who floated off anymore than anyone else, being all too kosher with her standing as one of the only people allowed to stay put on the ground, and again the really forced nature of her relationship with the trio, which I guess to the writers took priority over her reconciliation with Courtney which a whole blasted season had again been devoted to just to be thrown away...............Gwen was an absolute disgrace in this season, the writers just sodomized her completely. And for WHAT purpose, I must ask?

It's really no wonder why she's dropped in so many rankings in the past year.

Sorry if this came off more as a rant than anything else. But I just decided to unload all of my complaints about everything that annoyed me about Gwen in this one season. Seems to be the best way to just sum it all up, and I seriously needed to vent against how badly she's been handled. After the BS they pulled with her in TDA and TDWT, this was truly too much in TDAS and I don't blame the fans for pretty much losing faith in her after such a hot mess, I think people finally lost their patience with her on that one.