User blog comment:TotalDramaFan82498/Is It Bad That I've Liked Every Season?/@comment-25213010-20150307020048/@comment-1037137-20150307022231

I think people understood Mal perfectly. They just wanted to butter everyone up for the Mike vs. Zoey finale, thinking everybody adored them. And boy did that end up backfiring. There isn't much symbolic intent to be found in something that was so insensitive in its portrayal.