User blog comment:Epic~00/In Defense of: Dave/@comment-25027229-20150322014554

If anyone was ruined for me in the finale, it was Sky, not Dave. Both characters became more developed, but I REALLY don't want to see them again after what happened. I know they'll be back in another season to repeat their plot and probably not resolve it properly.

Until the finale, I didn't care for Sky and thought Dave was annoying and not so creepy as he was pathetic. But once the Keith bomb dropped... Sky dropped to the bottom of my list and Dave rose by only a little. Dave gets bashed for being "creepy" and trying to "kill Sky," but I never once saw him trying to flat out kill her, just stop her and Shawn from winning. Plus, the only creepy thing he did was howl like a wolf in Episode 9, but that was more played for laughs than anything. But Sky on the other hand started out as the anti-Zoey. She was there to win and not make friends and I respected that. However, crushing on Dave, admitting that she liked him to his face, only trying to tell him about Keith twice, tempting him with a kiss multiple times, giving him mixed messages in Episodes 8/9, kissing him in the finale only to get him to help her win, and then coming clean only after she'd been caught really makes her unlikable in the long run. It's sad, because without each other, both would be much better.

This fallout makes both characters more human and I can appreciate the direction the writers took. Dave's fall from grace was handled well in my opinion and Sky was still given development, but the resolution to the whole thing was pitiful. Sky doesn't even have a line after the winner is chosen. She just sits and smiles as Dave is likely mauled on the island. I see Sky as a terrible person and Dave as the victim at the end of all this messy business. The only thing Dave did wrong was try to get with Sky and annoyed her when it was obvious it was a bad idea, but Sky toys with him emotionally through 9 episodes, though it was only her fault in the finale, get busted in the finale, doesn't own up to her mistake, and is treated like a hero? Ugh... I hate the Skave plot and I hate just talking about it. I praise the writers for doing a grey-morality conflict, just like they did with Gwuncan in TDWT, but they just can't handle it at all. Let's hope the writers can wise up and resolve this mess acceptably without making it worse.