User blog comment:Kanon 1988/Are the sisters liked/@comment-31556666-20161219122808

The Sisters are probably THE most liked out of all RR teams. I've only ever known 1 hater of them and even still it wasn't her original viewpoint.

Honestea though I think they're two of the most overhyped and over praised characters the show has ever had, their only competition for me being the likes of terribly written characters like Dakota or Samey that still somehow have a fairly big fan base overall. Now the Sisters aren't bad characters but what is there about them that really made them be by far the most popular team in RR? Kitty herself I'd say is the 3rd most popular character in the history of the show, only behind Lindsay and Heather

To me both are fairly fine chapters with Kitty just being marginally better. Emma's ok but I really don't see why her fanbase is so big. She had this weird inconsistency in the first few episodes where they didn't exactly know how to write her interactions with Kitty properly. One minute she'd be snide the next minute she'd be questioning Kitty's usefulness. All this was done as foreshadowing for when that awful couple Nemma happens and Emma stops focusing on the game but the problem with this analogy is that it would imply that Kitty was useless too in the first few episodes, which didn't happen. Ok in the first episode it did for two seconds, but not only in every other one did Kitty NOT be useless, but she was also actually useful. So Emma's jump to not contributing much doesn't work at all as a role reversal because Kitty never went through this phase anyhow. Then Nemma was just an awful relationship where both felt so disconnected from the season with how slow paced they were in a RACING show, so the whole thing just comes across as wooden, gross, and I don't care about it. Then Emma is good for about her last 7 episodes but it's not like she's this amazing character or anything. She's just kind of more normal, down to earth, and funny. I mean I liked her interactions with Devin and the Ice Dancers? Other than that she is far from a decent character.

I liked Kitty but there really wasn't much special about her for me. The first few episodes just involved her either taking a selfie or proving to her sister that she's way more of an asset than she thinks. The second one is fine but it's basically all Kitty was doing as she had to deal with this honestly incompetent sister of hers. Then she helps Carrie with Devin or something but idk that's made more memorably by Carrie for me. Then Nemma happens and I don't know why Kitty was still so popular. Ok so she helps them get together and tries teaching Emma how to go about love properly, but it's halfway into the season now and it seems more like Kitty's inferior sister is the more significant one story-wise. Kitty is kind of just some middle of the road person. Which I don't mind, after all I like RR Owen, and it's probably why him and Kitty are back to back for me RR-wise, but people need to recognise she really wasn't all that important for a good chunk of episodes. All she was doing after getting Nemma together was trying to calm Emma down, which again doesn't work so well because Emma's way too over the top to begin with.

Then people say in the last few episodes they develop some kind of bond with each other and get closer, and I gueeesss that's true? I don't know it's never really put in the forefront of any episodes so it's not too important for me. I'm already watching the Daters stand out in their varied and very complex arguments. I'm already watching Carrie act like me. I'm already watching Police Cadets look like amazing future winners, and I'm already watching the Ice Dancers do about 5 storylines in the space of 2 episodes. The Sisters are just so overshadowed and so general for me, and it doesn't fit the more fast paced format of RR, which is why teams like Daters, Cadets, or Ice Dancers work so well for me in the first place. Theyre not bad characters but they are far from being anywhere near the best for me. I don't think I'll ever understand why the Sisters are the most popular team over so many others that deserve that title and I don't think I'll ever know either.