User blog comment:VeryUnknownFan/Holy crap. Mike SERIOUSLY WON?/@comment-29817311-20140328011505/@comment-1037137-20140328022544

The terms "Character Depth" and "Lightning" certainly don't go together in the same sentence. The guy had zero story, his conflict with Cameron was entirely last minute in a last-ditch bid to justify him becoming a finalist, and nothing besides his one-liners kept him going. And there essentially was nothing appealing about him whatsoever beyond said occasional moments of funny, but these alone do NOT make him a full-fledged character who justified the length of his run on the show. It's like taking a cardboard standee of Michael Jordan into your house and saying to your folks that MJ is in your presence. Lightning has about as much personality as a cardboard standee and if we're going to complain about TDROTI having a possibly sexist setup in its male vs. male setup, well Lightning is half the problem there. Seeing how he by whoever's hand actually did make it all the way through to the end when he had jack going on. And if everyone's going to complain about how some of the others never justified advancing that far and were riding on too little to even be considered as potential finalists, well what makes Lightning any less an offender in that category? Or is there something about the guy that nobody can bring themselves to hate, some unseen thing that has brought about this contradiction? Two or three boring characters who at the very least had a story, bad or not somehow doesn't have any leg to stand on against a guy who not only had a paper-thin personality who's sole schtick was that he was pure brawn, but also had literally zero story until the very last minute? That I don't get, folks. That I don't get.