User blog comment:TheTDQueen2014/Who's the BEST and WORST Writer?/@comment-24245380-20141114044708/@comment-1037137-20141114070035

Superdawnfan, you have never said anything kind about Courtney, so you obviously feel very differently about what is widely accepted as her derailment over the seasons. Both this very, VERY sudden change of persona after all of that along with her stupidity are a part of that derailment. Both very unlike her TDI self and regardless of how you feel about her, there's simply not an excuse for how much damage has been done to any single character, her being by far one of the worst cases of a single character being twisted in and out on a constant, CONSTANT basis. Not unlike others that also includes Gwen. And there's never an excuse for pulling this sort of nonsense to satisfy a twist or plot point that only proves counterproductive to everything that has already been in motion, something that had been the only other clear focus for the majority of the season other than that disastrous Zoke/Mal plot. You do not invest an entire season towards fixing something just to wreck it all over again. This is one of the lowest blows they ever pulled and Ed MacDonald bears much of the responsibility for what happened, as do those who approved of what he wrote. It accomplishes absolutely nothing.

No, I'm not attempting to convince you to like Courtney or even forgive Courtney. You hate her? Fine. That's your right. But understand where the outrage surrounding this stems from. There's a billion things here that people both fans and haters of Courtney alike found wrong with this episode. This season was garnering much hate or dislike well beforehand, but it was this episode where things really got bad. And the remaining two episodes that followed only turned up the heat begun by this episode.