User blog comment:KidLego09/Jasmine - Is She Overrated, Underrated, Or Neither?/@comment-24971793-20141110175932

This really is a hard question.

I don't think she deserves credit as being the best written character. Her biggest flaw IMO is that her character felt a little overworked, a bit too many things going on. I mean she's an educated survivalist, she's australian, she's an amazon, she has the superpower of hypnosis, she's claustrophobic, she grew up feeling like a "freak" (insecure), she's emotionally unstable (somethimes a great and smart leader othertimes foolishly impulsive), she has a short fuse, she's domineering,...

She didn't need to have those hypnotic powers. The claustrophobia made sense for her but since it was so lately introduced and she already had so much going on I think she could have done without. I feel like her being insecure over feeling like a freak felt kind of awkward since she competed in a cast where she was one of the most normal and relatable characters and it didn't mix well with the domineering part of her personality. So I do think there where some issues in her characterisation (sometimes less is more). Don't get me wrong I love her and think she's one of the better written characters. But not the best. There are some problems and they're mostly ignored since 99% of the people (including me) love her. But on the other hand she doesn't get as much praise as characters like Dawn or Ella do/did. So I'd say she's just a little bit overrated.