User blog comment:Fedora Kid/Total Drama All-Stars: Thoughts Going Into This Season/@comment-1756703-20130822113657/@comment-1756703-20130823014153

Duncan was the one who cheated on Courtney and drove a wedge between Courtney and Gwen's budding friendship. He was the antagonizing factor in the love triangle. If he's not going to be remorseful about that, then I'd prefer to see those two girls reject Duncan entirely and reconcile as friends in TDAS.

Also, how can you say that Courtney never changes? Compared to most of the other campers, she's undergone some of the more notable changes from her original design. In TDI, she was originally a polite but uptight girl who became more competitive as the season went on. In the episode in which she was eliminated, she underwent a drastic change in personality, only to revert back to her previous self after becoming the victim of vote fraud thanks to Harold's interference. In TDA, her competitiveness was kicked into overdrive, and she became much more feisty and ruthless than she was before. In TDWT, she was originally hostile to cooperating in a team again, but mellowed out over the course of the first half of the season, even to the point where she became friends with her teammate Gwen. She even owned up to not being perfect and "messing up" during one of the confessionals in Newf Kids on the Rock, which is clear character growth for her. The only reason she didn't remain that way was because of what Duncan did to her later on in the season.

Come on, you're watching the same show as me, right? Yeah, you're obviously entitled to hate who you want to on this show, but your reasons for singling out Courtney have never really been clear or fair. You rag on her for not changing, when in fact, she's one of the more complex characters out of the original campers. For the sake of comparison, you bring up Gwen, who I would argue hasn't changed very much since the first season. The only changes we've seen from her has been the revelation of her immaturity and, dare I say, selfishness in handling her own personal relationships, whether it be with Trent, Courtney, or Duncan. This isn't to say that she's a bad character; far from it, actually. But back in The Aftermath: II, she said she learned she would be "straight up" with people from that point on, due to the fallout from her breakup with Trent. But she didn't really learn. Where was this "straight up" demeanour in TDWT when she hesitated and hesitated to tell Courtney about her kiss with Duncan? Or here, let's pull out another example. Back in Search and Do Not Destroy, when she saw Heather kissing Trent, she experienced major heartbreak when she saw another girl kissing her boyfriend. Did she not draw upon this experience later on when she kissed Courtney's boyfriend? Nope. All she cared about was herself.

I think Gwen is actually due for some personal growth. She needs to redeem herself for the way she acted towards Courtney and towards Trent. That's why I'm predicting that Duncan and Gwen will split up in TDAS; it simply can't end happily ever after for the two of them due to the way it began.