User blog comment:Stryzzar/Who is the Greatest Antagonist? (Part 3)/@comment-5221692-20140704180238/@comment-1037137-20140705003527

Too many unfortunate implications about MPD which is very real for some people. And he couldn't have been more weakly executed as a villain. He didn't do much at all and everybody was written to act uncharacteristically stupid around his presence just so he could slide by to the finish without any struggle. I think it's pretty obvious they just really wanted that Mike vs. Zoey finale, everything else in the season was reduced to an afterthought, and consistency was blown out of the sky. Even I have to agree with the masses that it so was not worth it. That was too predictable a setup for a finale, and the entire Mal arc is beyond lazy.

Mal was just a straight up bad idea. They made him such a massive focus of the season and yet did practically zilch with it.