User blog comment:MegamanZero0002/TD Antagonists and "Karma"/@comment-35640410-20140610175127

I personally don't hate an antagonist because they get a character I like eliminated (ESPECIALLY if it's clear that character is meant to be a straight up filler. Unless I feel like the character could have gone a little farther, that's a different story). However, I will hate an antagonist if I feel like they get whatever they want (*cough* Mal *cough*), especially if it results in characters having to be dumbed down or it just happens out of the blue, or I feel like they're strategies suck. Here are my feelings for every antagonist so far:

Heather - She will always be my favorite, like alot of fans out there. I really like how she planned out her ways of causing eliminations and various drama and she really got alot of people contestants eliminated by working hard.

Justin - He may have not really gotten many people eliminated, but you know what? Looking at TDA now, it was clear he was meant to be a filler antagonist. While I do think he could have done better, I like how he also played the role as being a comic relief antagonist and constantly kept losing his beauty charm and was upset with it, and his sneaky side really gave him alot of good development. It was a shame all of this was wiped away next season and he became his TDI self again.

Courtney - A little Mary-sueish as an antagonist, but let's be honest. From the beginning, she was "Little Miss perfect." I actually liked her as an antagonist cause it actually acted canon from last season (she decided "I'm not showing my nice side anymore!" after her unfair elimination) and showed some more skills she had to be a good game player. I think it was clear, she was meant to be the real antagonist this season. Like Heather, I do feel she worked hard to get some of the contestants eliminated, like getting Harold to vote off Leshawna agaisnt his will. Not as hard, but still fair enough for my taste.

Alejandro - Well, I like how he got alot of people eliminated, but at the same time, I did have some flaws with him. I feel like his strategies of getting some of the girls eliminated (Bridgette and Leshawna) just seemed too much of something Justin would have done. Also, up until the last minute, it feels like he had absolutely no flaws whatsoever, which made him really stuish. I still felt he was pretty stuish in All-Stars, but not as much.

Scott - Did not like him as an antagonist. In fact, it felt like he had no purpose of being a character except for being "the season's antagonist." I did not like his strategies of throwing challenges because I felt that was just weak. He does get some credit for causing some real eliminations like Dawn's and Mike's. I like how he got some real development in All-Stars, but of course, still keeping his villinous ways.

Mal - This guy was such a joke. Seriously. They had to dumb down the characters to make him look like a threat and his strategies..... no. Breaking people's stuff? Really? And he barely even did much to begin with until episode 8 or 9. I could easily tell he was there to kill people (or, at least, at first that's how it seemed like it), but of course, he failed at it since we can't have characters except the interns killed off.

As far as karma goes, I don't really mind it. Some of it can be pretty funny like seeing Heather lose all her hair, while some of it can be a little cruel (like trapping Alejandro head to toe in a robot suit, covering up his image and what little he can see of the outside world), but all in all, that's just how the show was. Every antagonist (except for pretty much Courtney) gets something to them in the end.