User blog comment:Webkinz Mania/Zoey Bashing Blog/@comment-24220314-20131129051548

I've been sitting in my room looking up at the ceiling for half an hour trying to come to odds with this character. She has a very weak personality and has very limited character interactions and the writers seem to treat her as a personal pet who they are willing to shove down our throats with such authority that we'll be coughing up her pigtails for a week. Which is the kind of character that makes me so bored that makes me stare up at the ceiling for half an hour, but as much as I try (and I swear I do) I can't help but like Zoey, and you are more than welcome to bash me for whatever justified reasons (not sarcasm) you guys wish but give me some time to explain? i guess.

One of the first reasons I thought I liked her was because of contrast. You need to juxtapose bland boring stuff with awesome exciting stuff so you will appreciate the awesome stuff all the more, but that argument is about as strong as a styrofoam plate under a monster truck, isn't it? And it certainly doesn't work out in her favor. You start talking about math while you're at a bar with some friends they certainly wouldn't want to keep you around.

The second argument I thought of is the small character arc that she had in season 4, which as a story enthusiast I can dig like a shallow grave. But I knew that wasn't it because good character arcs are well paced with slow burns that progress over time and Zoey finished hers in an episode and a half which certainly isn't enough time to appreciate it, even if I did think her going nuts was the high point of season 4.

But then I had it, the strongest argument that I could come up with, and the strength of this argument is subject to opinion (very negative opinions I'm anticipating) but the reason I believe I like Little Red Boring Hood so much is because out of all the nutjobs and one-dimensional characters this series has, I find her the easiest to project on to, or in other words, I personally find her the most relatable.

Because I realized that if I was a character on Total Drama I'd be the same type of camper she is. I too have a hard time making friends and any friends I did make would be the ones that I would stick around with so I have some allies. I would also do my best to help others out and try to make friends so I don't turn into a complete jerk like other certain competitors. It also was the way she performed in season 4 would kinda be the way I imagine I would perform, slipping by week to week not attracting a lot of unnecessary attention, and it's always good to be seen as a hero right? unless you relish villainy or something. I also have a tendency to go absolutley ballistic when I'm fed up with something and if i was a character and that did heppen to me, well. Alejandro and Chris' good looks wouldn't be in the safest condition if I got my hands on a tree branch, I'll tell you that.

Of course she isn't perfect. I'd think I would know what "The truth is in the art" would mean and realize when the person I'm in a relationship with (who has multiple personalities, by the way) is acting mean as some cause for concern, and the gullibility certainly grated my cheese to the degree that it's now melted on the world largest plate of nachos. But I don't hate her, or dislike her, or even have a neutral opinion on her, I do like her. But even that isn't saying much. It's like saying "out of all these pieces of uneaten pizza in the trash, I think this one is the safest to eat."

Oh, enjoy the bashing of my opinion, by the way. :)