User blog comment:Jam7/Jam's last-minute TDAS predictions/@comment-1376932-20130910064457/@comment-3024023-20130910071349

Personally I think they screwed up to different degrees.

Courtney was bad in TDA but she showed more improvement in TDWT.

Gwen's character started to show signs of antagonism during TDA and then she exercised that ability some more in TDWT.

Duncan was ok in TDA but did a 180 on me in TDWT. I was surprised more by his outright hostility towards Courtney after being away for most of the season and after having 2 seasons of "friendly" and love/hate conflict with her than his attraction towards Gwen but the latter too was surprising because the first was hard to swallow.

I think it's perhaps something like the above reasoning that could explain why the characters are placed in the teams that they are in TDAS and because the writers want to separate Courtney and Duncan once and for all now and to add some more drama and friction to the techinally love LINE (not triangle, unless Duncan becomes more of a butt and tries to get Courtney's attention again in TDAS) that plays such a big part of the series.

As to the second point - Idk ~ The above conflict started with one kiss in the span of 2 seconds in one episode and stretched for the remaining few episodes of the season. Drama can happen quite quickly and without warning on this show and can label you as either a hero or villain in that time just as quickly xD