User blog comment:Epic~00/In Defense of: Dave/@comment-25297892-20150320165707

I liked Dave in the first two episodes, then I felt something going more and more wrong with him, his character revolved too much around two single things: germaphobia (fueled on by the continuous gross acts of Shugar) and Sky. Besides that, Dave was nothing than a shallow version of Noah mixed with Cody, and like Trent an undefinable character in a cast so full of gimmicks...still likable, by the way. Hurl and Go Seek (and the finale 2) was the cherry at the top of the worst this character could have inside, his bad luck in love and (judging by his videotape) in life, too, was his main trait providing for an unnecessary painful concentrate of tears and drama..to the point to be just ridiculous. Never saw a character cry and whine so much in two single episodes, neither Sadie. This isn't drama, it's just a tragedy.

As of Dave himself, his character (for the few he worked solo) is interesting and pretty realistic: the idea seems of the typical loser frustrated by his bad luck in the life, anxious and paranoic, that as soon as he joins TDPI suddenly feels to have reached the peak: finally he wins challenges, and what seems the most important, he gets a girlfriend. His approach to Sky is insecure, kiddish and rushed just for this, also like Ella he has his moment of "fairy tale", giving to what is a simple crush the same value of...a definitive perfect pair...with the result to be possessive and obsessive with Sky.

Under this point of view Dave gives a realistic portrait of "Young love issues", it's what come next to ruin him. The Writers should have stopped here with the fantasy, making Dave to quit literally forever with this all once the illusion was over. Instead they decided to make him return just to get the FINAL STAB from Sky, a Sky, that like many girls in real life, kept things confused and never said the truth. So, the "Normal Guy" turned into the exact opposite of his label. Critic decision that doomed Dave to the same destiny of Ezekiel (quite close to) and I creep thinking of HOW he will return after this experience. In any way, they would ruin him more, considering that if he heals from his madness, he will be another Trent that or gets a triangle or gets the bottom of dimenticance, if he doesn't, get ready for the next main villain of the series, that could be psycho as the last seen, considering what he did at the end of Pahkitew just for Revenge.