User blog comment:Epic~00/In Defense of: Dave/@comment-24971793-20150320214725

Dave was the character I was most anticipated about before the season aired, so my pre-season favorite I guess. I liked him the first half of the season but when they put him on the 3:10 to Crazytown train they lost me. I know that it's not derailment since his decent into madness happens gradually and the signs that he had a darker side where evident from the start. But it still feels strange and forced to me. I think the writers just wanted to push Sky as a protagonist/hero of this season and therefore they decided to make Dave as unlikeable as they possibly could: bald (ugly), weak and homicidal. Because if he would have remained how he was in the beginning (a pessimistic, blunt but still decent guy) then Sky would have come across really bad in the last episode which would have tempered the joy of her win. I would have preferred if they didn't do that and just kept it realistic... but what's done is done.

TLDR: I've always liked Dave's concept, and he had his good moments. But it seems like he joined Trent and Dakota in the "characters that got sacrificed/wrecked for their love intrest" club, so I worry about his future (if any).