User blog comment:Flagator24/Did TDA have the worst final two?/@comment-5790218-20170505223605

Okay, can we please stop hating over Beth for a moment and give her a chance? Like, everyone just keeps calling her a very boring character and finalist but, honestly, Beth did develop from TDI to TDA. All we got from her in TDI was her participation in Heather's alliance (that ended with a very boring and forgetable betrayal, I highly doubt anyone even remember how she called off Heather or even got amused by the scene, it felt like something that just needed to happen so they wrote it the laziest way ever) and her also forgetable curse, that only caused her elimination and didn't play a important part in her character, it was just there. I highly doubt you remember something memorable from Beth in TDI that didn't involve other character, something that was just her like Lindsay's calling out Heather or Gwen having revenge on Heather using the red ants, or even Heather's having her head shaved! Nobody forget these stuff, everyone remembers them and always think of them when you think of character development of these "major characters".

And them comes TDA, she takes off her braces and honestly, I can see a new person there! Beth was charismatic, she participated in the challenges and had a super close friendship with Lindsay (aside from her vote in that horror episode that was OOC of her), got a model boyfriend and hated Courtney. That may look bland and repetitive, but now she has traits we can remember of, that's where she got a basis and started to grow as a character, not just as a crownie-like background character like she was in TDI. She straight up ignored Heather in the second episode, she did her best to help her team during the challenges, she was pratically one of the nicest contestants there and that's what helped her achieve the merge, because nobody disliked Beth, damn she was one of the two contestants that never were in a TDA bottom two, Duncan went to three/four! She and Lindsay were very strong together, too, and they would totally have eliminated Duncan if it wasn't Lindsay's fault. And them, during the last episodes, after getting manipulated by both Justin and Courtney, she's still manages to trust people and be one of the nicest, she befriended a damn raccon and helped her enemy when she could have just left him behind and win, and she still won anyway, because all of the friend she made were on her side and didn't stop liking her. Even after that, in TDWT, she turns out to be the most vocal commentator and in the first aftermath she was the one to be on Bridgette's side when she had problems.

The point is, Beth most likely isn't the best, most strategic contestant the competition ever saw, but she deserved to win because even after being betrayed and used, she managed to be the nice farm girl she started up as, and now with a whole new layer of confidence the competition gave her. She made a fair game, she made a lot of friends and had a undying good morale (why else would you think she'd side with a enemy, that made fun of her best friend when she was eliminated?). Everyone justified Duncan's actions in TDA using a lot of specific events and finding extra messages in his plotline, so Beth also deserves to be seem this way. Stop hating on Beth and hate the screen hog Owen's return, she wasn't what ruined TDA's finale and she deserved to be here.