User blog comment:Zoether/Wake up Courtney fans/@comment-24600224-20131012010400/@comment-24600224-20131012181151

A debate is defined as a discussion in which two participants arrive at different conclusions, viewpoints, or positions. The fact that we have different opinions centered around Courtney qualifies as a debate. I'm not sure why you disagree but that's more or less a minor issue.

Courtney is not manipulative. She never once did anything to control or manipulate anyone in the show. Her antagonistic (or villianious, if you prefer that term) nature is entirely attributed to the fact that she's a beast of a competitor who will do anything to win. For what it's worth, I think it would've been interesting had Courtney been eliminated in lieu of Ezekiel. I think that CxD's relationship being founded and formed in TDA would be much more intriquing, plus Ezekiel would have gotten some nice development. In any event, you can't really say that she would've done something manipulative to get someone elimiminated when she was never shown to be manipulative and in fact volunteered to be eliminated instead of the intended person on multiple occasions.

Ezekiel's comments where not helping. Moreover, they were taunting comments that did little to sympathize with Courtney's position. It's akin to having you lose a game of musical chairs due to someone very clearly cheating by stealing your chair, and yet everyone tells you to get off your high horse for commenting that it wasn't fair.

You're missing the point. If she stayed behind, she would've lost the case which meant that Duncan broke his leg for absolutely nothing. That's worse than leaving him for the money, in my judgement.

Um....what? Courtney could've cut the rope before, during, or even after Owen pulled them off. Now you're just making excuses of why Courtney didn't cut the rope while ironically accusing others of making up excuses of why she didn't.

The TDI special did little to mitigate her claim. She wasn't compensated for her lost time on the show due to her unfair elimination and the canadian justice system apparantly agreed with her.

I think it's fine logic. People generally attack others (usually verbally but occasionally physically) if they are prevoked. That's actually the definition of provocation. What part of "treat me with respect and I'll treat you with respect" did Duncan not understand?

That's called lying, but it's still considered persuassion. She didn't kiss boyfriends, she didn't sabatoge the other team, she didn't steal MP3 players, she didn't make someone kiss a pole. What did she use again? The power of suggestion, but it's really just wordplay. Again, Harold could've come up with a strategy by going to Leshawna about Courtney's threat and together they could've easily formed an alliance to get rid of Duncan, which was the intended eliminatied person anyway. The fact that Harold didn't demonstrates that he just didn't have the strategic mindset that Courtney has. In any event, it doesn't mean that Courtney's manipulative in the sense that you're tryign to demonize her to be.

If he didn't die and if by your own admission it's irrelevant, why would you even bring it up in the first place?

She may not have trusted Duncan but she couldn't deny her feelings towards him and neither could he. Afterall, when Courtney loves, she loves hard. She just wanted to set up some ground rules because of Duncan's first offense. Many couples do this. It's nothing new. It's just overly emphisized, of course, because it's a cartoon.

True or False; Lindsay went up to Courtney and told her to her face "Tyler is my boyfriend,".

Zoey is still a threat to her gameplan though. I can understand your reasoning if Courtney threw the challenge just to eliminate Zoey as that would be akin to Scott's strategy, the fact that she didn't means that she held off on Zoey until she has the opportunity to eliminate her. She'll probably get a boost in fans if she eliminates Zoey anyway. Nobody likes Zoey.

What are you even talking about? I'm talking about the bridge tower where Justin was thrown off of. If anyone's at fault because of the danger, it is Chris because Chris is the one who sets up the rules and therefore it is his responsibility to make sure it's safe.

Not an excuse. Just justifiable.