User blog comment:Bowen567/Explain your opinions on.../@comment-31556666-20161211193715

I really can't stand Cody in WT and it's not for the reasons you think it is. Many would say he was carried by Sierra, or that he was fairly under the radar or that he wasn't very interesting, and while I agree with all of those that's not what my main issue with Cody is, though all three of those I firmly agree with.

Sierra was introduced as a competitor to the show and one of the reasons they made her a contestant was to give Cody his own stalker as karma for creeping out Gwen two seasons ago. Gradually as the first few episodes progress, Sierra starts to creep Cody out more and more, also being on the same team as him. She steals his toothbrushes, follows him everywhere, sniffs his shoe, and other gross things. And I accept all these things would annoy or creep out almost anyone. What I can't stand is 'Cody's treatment towards Sierra. Cody was a clearly horrible person who toyed with the emotions of a clearly emotionally unstable person. Don't believe me? Let's actually look further at this.

Sierra spent the entirety of the two-parter on a plane and in Egypt with her favourite contestant. From her point of view she's just been in a fantasy; meeting her dream man from her favourite TV show. And not only is she meeting him, she's travelling the world with him! She's going on a plane with him, exploring tombs with him, and singing with him. For Sierra this is a dream come true, and she feels like it's fine for her to have no filter. So she blurts out inappropriate things to Cody constantly that are coming purely from her mind, causing her to be impulsive in the things she says. Her first conversation was her telling him she dreamt she saw him without a shirt.

So Sierra spends a good 7 episodes not counting the aftermath following Cody around and just being a completely emotional mess around him. And what does he say? How does he react to this? What does this so-called main protagonist do? ...Absolutely nothing. Rather than giving Sierra even the most REMOTE hint he's not interested, Cody instead hides from his problems and just lets Sierra do her thing, and he purposefully took advantage of these emotions she had while trying to look like a victim. It was pure unadulterated d**che behaviour and it was all intentional by him. Don't believe me? Take the scene in Slap Slap Revolution for example. Cody doesn't want to wear an embarassing outfit in front of Gwen, and to take an easy way out, says this :

"Psst, that outfit would look really.... hot on you" ~to Sierra~

That's horrible behaviour. He knew something like that would get Sierra's hopes up and did it all to get himself out of a situation. Now obviously he gets karma for this right after by wearing the outfit but it's still an awful moment cause he's portrayed as some kind of victim when in reality he's just a bad person.

After victimising himself and not facing his problems at all for a long time, Cody & his team lose after a long time in the Amazon. And as 3 votes for Heather are cast awful 1 vote for Gwen, Cody does a horrible act; voting Sierra off. He does this whole speech in the confessional that she's bugging him and made him realise he didn't want a stalker girlfriend. On the surface it's a great moral for people not to get their hopes up about relationships. But this is Cody so it's absolutely horrible. If he had these problems with Sierra the whole time, then what the F**K was he doing this whole time??? She was buttering him up constantly while also clearly making him uncomfortable. If you have a problem with Sierra, then TELL HER. Just TELL HER. It's not like Cody is shy or anything. HE SNIFFED GEWN'S HAIR.

What happens following Cody's BLATANTLY underhanded and hateable action is very interesting. Sierra is beyond shocked at this action like anyone with a functioning brain would. Cody never gave her any indication that he wasn't interested, EVER. From her point of view, her world was completely turned upside down and I don't blame her at all. This poor girl got completely taken advantage of and was essentially in an emotionally manipulative relationship. And since she's full of confusion and shock, all she can do like anyone else would in the next episode, is give this pr**k a cold shoulder like he so rightfully deserves and then bawls crying. I truly felt so bad for her cause she just didn't deserve that at all. Anyone could see she was trying to impress Cody and that's all she wanted. He should not be afraid enough to the point where he's afraid to tell her anything.

Cody FINALLY comes to his senses and tells Sierra he's not interest- no never mind he does another deplorable thing.

"Ok, this day has been terrible. You know why? Because you're not bugging me."

This is a pretty awful moment. Cody comes clean with Sierra but not completely clean and it's so confusing. He... wants her to creep him out? It doesn't make any sense. Would it not make more sense to, y'know... tell her you're not interested??? He pretty much tells her to act like herself again, which predictably leaves another load of episodes where Sierra thinks she's being a really caring and loving person, because nobody will tell her what she's doing isn't ok.

Come merge after the whole love triangle business, after we get the #Blainerific Blaineley debut we get a wedding-type challenge. And because Cody has completely caused Sierra to think they're a real couple, she tries to propose to him over and over again only to fail. She finally succeeds and he finally gets emotionally tortured after torturing her emotions for a long time, getting married to her. And because Cody is a literal scuzzball, he continues to b**ch about Sierra, this time to Alejandro & Heather, and like an actual good person, Heather tells him "Shut up and tell her". And guess what? He still doesn't! Despite him asking her for help, her giving him advice, and then him following through. And he also once again manipulates Sierra by manipulating her into helping him in China by having her ride a f***ing pogo stick while he rides a donkey. Then we get another awful Cody line after Heather questions his morality as a human being; "You've gotta pick your moments." I've picked a moment too. It's one where you die and Sierra doesn't save you for the 5467894 time.

After this Cody like... tries to tell Sierra that he's not interested but after one failed attempt he just kindaaa gives up and votes her out again. He's a snake of a person. It took him a whopping 20 episodes to tell her anything and it didn't give her any information to begin with. And after all this he's still portrayed as in the right while she's some kind of hapless weirdo. Later episodes include her saving Cody's life many times and him betraying her another two times like per usual. He's just an ungrateful a**hole who doesn't deserve this kind of affection at all. Even he knows what she's done form him and it just doesn't matter to him. If this was Gwen it would be a completely different story. The longer I see him the worse of a person he is.

In summary, Sierra repeatedly tried to get on Cody's good side as hard as she possibly could and saved his life about a dozen times and even though he knows all this he takes the decision to consciously b**ch talk her and purposefully votes her off a whopping 5 times. He's a completely terrible person and him outlasting her is just awful.

But do you know what the worst part is? I completely related to Sierra here. In real life there's been more than one person whom I've been sort of friends with but tried my absolute hardest to impress them and make them see the good in me and normally the other kind of person would either not take any of what I say, or be a d**k back and have everyone still like them anyways, both equally as bad scenarios and both things that Cody does to Sierra. He was a completely rude bully to her and them playing it off as him being a victim to her craziness is just disgusting tbh.

Look I'm not saying Sierra is sane. Cody has every right to be afraid. lol But do you know what's worse than a stalker who tries too hard and follows your every move? The instigator of the stalker who consciously does nothing to stop them. Cody was a terrible person who didn't deserve to last the entire 26 episode run

Heather: You and I have a similar problem Cody: Really? Which escaped mental patient are you married to 😒😒😒

JUST TELL HER