User blog comment:Cody73/The good about TDAS (Yes folks.... THE GOOD)/@comment-25285054-20141110211741/@comment-1037137-20141111082026

As much as they pushed it with Alejandro at times, and as much as the fact that it was primarily the girls who he targeted and ultimately brought down is a bit....questionable in its implicatons, Alejandro whether you love him or despise him had a clear strategy and remain grounded in reality for the most part and they firmly established what he was capable of. But even he had his close calls and his struggles, even he was not without obstacles.

Mal on the other hand.........The crew literally had to dumb down the entire cast just to get him by. I don't know why they made this choice rather than doing the sensible thing and defining his abilities rather than relying solely on the fact that "he's evil", but it was a decision that violated all common sense. Almost nobody on this cast should've been this ignorant and this blind to what was going on. Not even Zoey should've been this stupid, especially since she was the one to get most of the warnings. Mal is more of an annoyance than he is a villain. He did not have a truly productive strategy, a lot of his actions amounted to little if anything, and anything that did was not of his own making, even after people start catching on to him nobody acts on the knowledge and just seem to forget about it altogether...........He's a Villain Stu in its worst and most heavily abused terms.

They had to dumb down a whole cast to make his plot work. That alone right there discredits him entirely. The cast of All-Stars is not this stupid.