User blog comment:WreakerOfClash/Is Mike as BAD as we think?/@comment-25285054-20170820165032/@comment-22317052-20170822073432

I'm going to disagree with you here. The reason Mike's design is so simplistic is that it's supposed to be versatile and fit him as well as his personalities. Plus, most TD designs aren't too elaborate. Regarding safety, I mean, the contestants clearly watched the previous three seasons and saw the horrors Chris puts the contestants through, so they should have known that the show isn't safe - I don't think Mike made it much more dangerous. Also, he didn't "manipulate" the girls for his own sake: he never used their infatuation with him to progress further in the game. The reason he hesitated to tell Zoey the truth was that he feared she would not like him if she knew that he suffered from a mental disorder. This is understandable, a mental disorder was bound to build up insecurities inside him. It is also not his fault that Anne Maria was a moron who couldn't understand that Mike never liked her, even when he told her time and time again that Vito was just an "act".