User blog comment:AGuyHere/Can We Stop Pretending that Anne Maria is a Good Character?/@comment-31556666-20150809113418

There are several major issues I have with this blog.

For one, you claim Anne Maria has been done to death but is that really that surprising? All contestants in the entire show are stereotypical. And Anne Maria is one of those stereotypes where I feel she didn't become completely predictable with it. The traditional female jersey stereotype is a woman who only cares about themselves and is pretty vain towards others. This is not the usual thing with Anne Maria. She has shown to get along with others, including Cameron. But if she was a complete stereotype, she would've never given him the time of day unless he had good looks. Similar to Cameron, as a random example, how about when she stood up for Brick against Jo? Moments like this show that Anne Maria is not just looking out for herself. Do I even need to remind that she rooted for brains over brawns in the finale? Had she been a completely lazy character with no thought put in, she would be blindly rooted for Lightning.

She's also not dumb like the jersey stereotype implies, since she figures out a graveyard clue easily in Finders Creepers,  she catches onto Jo's manipulation, she's aware that Zoey accidentally nearly killed Jo once, and probably more examples. So not only is Anne Maria's intelligence balanced, but she's also selfless when she should be.

Furthermore, what you said in the blog is not all Anne Maria did. All that is is a really cryptic summary of her. Anne Maria had a conflict with Jo in all 7 of her competing episodes. Without Anne Maria, Jo would never have a foe to challenge her in the earlier episodes. Brick came close but it was kind of implied that Jo was reigning supreme over him. Without Anne Maria not being on the same level of Jo, she would just get to reign without anyone stopping her and therefore would not be balanced and would also be much more hated. Anne Maria is also proof, like her or not, that she was what made Zoke interesting. She isn't a villain in this scenario, but she is an obstacle for the relationship and without her, I'm pretty sure the couple would be even more unpopular.

And no, people aren't pretending to like Anne Maria. She is not liked for being more popular than Mike and Zoey. That makes no sense bearing in mind that a character needs to have qualities that make them liked in the first place. Therfore, there is an appeal found in Anne Maria. Not only is she balanced with somewhat three dimensional qualities in my opinion, but she's also been pretty funny. I know every character on the show is humorous at some point but Anne Maria has diversity in her humor which makes her all - around funny.

Also, you can't really compare Anne Maria and Zoey. Both are intended to be the complete polar opposite of each other, which is why two of Mike's personalities liked both of them. How is Anne bland exactly? She's not mad all the time. It sounds more like you're summarization Eva. Anne Maria is friendly to those she gets along with, and she didn't ever walk all over Vito when in a relationship with him either. She was only agressive to Zoey every time Zoey hit her. She acted agressive to Jo, but only after her buttons were pushed. Overall, Anne Maria is only agressive if provoked by anyone and it's usually for a good reason. And why dislike a character for having a personality trait. That's the equivalent of if I were to say I dislike Lightning because he's usually arrogant and dumb. But there's no explanation for me to have with an argument, enter like that. If you're going to dislike a character for their personality, at least explain why.

The biggest problem I have with this blog though us that it's completely biased through and through. I don't mind if you dislike a character, but the way you worded yourself makes it sound like your word is the only correct word. Here's some examples:

"Also Yes Brick and Dakota are two of the better characters from ROTI, but Anne Maria is not."

"Anne Maria is still a bad character and the likes of Brick and Dakota are so much better."

"Saying that Sam is undeserving and them bringing up Anne Maria just discredits anyone's whole claim. Sam is way better than her."

"ROTI characters better than Anne Maria: Jo Brick Sam Cameron  (not taking All-Stars in to account) Dakota Lightning  (although they are close) Dawn (Maybe) and probably even Zoey (again not ROTI, not All Stars)"

There is so much better ways to word opinions like this. Your words here don't really have much explanation either. I don't think Sam is a good character at all, since his significance is inferior to hers, his humor and personality are both repetitive and he never does any feat that makes him memorable for me. That said I don't really mind that he has fans either. That's me giving explanation to any claim I have. But from your wording you may have inadvertently implied that liking Anne Maria is sinful or something. I dislike Samey firmly, but I'm clearly able to see why it is that she is so popular.

Plus Anne was never a popular character to begin with. Her fan and hate base varies and based on that, I don't think she's the kind of character where her relatively big portion of fans should be complained about. Looking at the whole cast of that season,  I would only really call her the 7th- 5th most popular which is all in all average - above average. I still think Anne Maria holds up and I don't really mind that she has a good few haters too. No character doesn't have haters and Anne Maria is far from an exception to this.