User blog comment:Jam7/Bizarre Love Triangle: A mid-season follow-up.../@comment-1756703-20100824200054

Duncan is a fool. At the beginning of the third season, he had a girlfriend in Courtney who was hopelessly devoted to him despite the turmoil their relationship went through last season. She's as strong a player as he is (if not stronger), and together, they would have been an unstoppable force. But Duncan, being the selfish clod he is this season, threw that all away. First of all, he quit the show in the first episode for refusing to sing, despite inexplicably having no more qualms about it once he returns later in the season. That gave Courtney the sense that he abandoned her for trivial reasons, which hurt her. And secondly, he betrays Courtney by kissing his friend (and her friend too, as it would turn out) Gwen. That just devastated her and -- as Alejandro stated -- completely threw her off her game for the rest of the season.

It's easy to chalk up the sudden change in Duncan's behaviour towards Courtney as a rejection of her telling him what to do. But what he fails to understand is that she was only trying to help him advance far in the season because she cares about him, and she wanted to be by his side the entire way through. You have to remember that it's hard for someone like her to become genuinely attached to someone, but when she does, she becomes loyal to that person. And when that person betrays her trust, she becomes his/her worst enemy.

Look at Alejandro. He gained Courtney's trust, even if it was under false pretenses. And in the latest episode (Chinese Fake Out), she was so loyal to him that she helped him cheat even when it came to having to eat the "delicacies" put forth in the disgusting eating competition they had. There's no doubt in my mind that she would have done the exact same thing for Duncan had the circumstances been more favourable to their relationship, even if he's not as "perfect" as Alejandro.