User blog comment:Cody Kins TD Fan/Which is the Worst Season Finale: TDAS or TDWT? Note: PLEASE NO MIKE AND ZOEY BASHING!/@comment-2181164-20131208213843/@comment-23587492-20131209153457

Lightning is one-dimensional.

Lightning's humor and charm comes from the same reason people dislike him (perhaps similar to Owen).

Did he deserve being a finalists? Realistically, yes, seeing his skills and lack of empathy would have given him a major advantage in a competition like Total Drama.

On the other hand, let's ask that question through another perspective. Did Lightning deserve to be in the finale as a fictional character?

That really depends on your position on Lightning. He hardly received any character development; the only things we found out about him that wasn't initially revealed was that he can be very vengeful and he has a soft spot for his father.

Although, one might say that Lightning's base character was good and funny enough to be without character development. I agree with that to an extent. I'd much rather sacrifice character development on figures I don't like so that they can improve. But again, the same reasons I find Lightning to be a good and funny character are the reasons others find him to be an annoying and useless character. Haters might feel that Lightning needs the character development to improve on his bad character.

I find most fans and haters to have very valid reasons on their feelings toward Lightning, as both of them are nearly the exact same reasons, it is not that hard to understand.\

There's a very simple way to solve this drift: Lightning can go through character development for haters of him to appreiciate his depth, while also having him not receive character transformation and having his original character abolished so that fans can still enjoy him.