User blog comment:Stryzzar/Amy or Samey - comparison/@comment-4742462-20150528155034

The best part about the twins was that they were voiced by Bryn. But even then, they totally wasted her since both of these characters are completely pointless when you really think about it.

I honestly feel the hate for Amy can be a bit extreme at times. I'm probably the only person who will publicly admit that she's simply neutral. But then again, she didn't legitimately make my blood boil the same way other characters from this season did like Max & Sugar.

I'm very conflicted as to whether I feel Samey is better or worse than Amy (the fact that I don't spell her name correctly should be telling of how little I care about her). As Jayden has pointed out time and time again, everything about her (even down to her friendship with Jasmine) revolves completely around her conflict with Amy (and vice-versa). I will admit that they clearly did attempt to give her something different by having the plot with her trying to be her own person... Only for it to get thrown out the window after two episodes for the switcheroo plot (which I'll get to in a minute).

When I first heard about the twins, I was expecting a switch to happen at some point (I'm sure everyone was). But what I was expecting was the more obvious with Amy pretending to be Samey. What we got was something that gave me the same vibe as Skave in which they were so desperate to try and do something different that they gave us something that would've made the more obvious and predicable plot look a thousand times better in comparison.

The switcheroo plot is what cripples Samey the most because of how it was created by blatantly insulting the audience's intelligence for a plot that ultimately became pointless two episodes later. Considering this season and All-Stars were both written at the same time, I wouldn't be surprised if they thought the audience would be dumb enough to buy this 'twist' and not call them out for it. And sadly, the fact that so many people applauded it for being 'epic' and 'shocking' essentially proved them right even though it was just as bad as Gwen kicking the leech bucket onto Courtney (which has rightfully been torn apart with how nonsensical it was). I refuse to believe that this 'plot' was the 'best' they could do for these two considering how insulting and manipulative it was. Then again, considering how this season was rushed through production with no rewrites or proof-reading whatsoever, it shouldn't surprise me that this (along with similar moments later on) managed to make it as far as being in the final product.

Overall, the twins could've been better if there had been any actual effort put into the season. And the fact that everything about them is dropped as soon as Samey is eliminated just goes to show how pointless they truly were in the long run. Only thing that could've changed with them not being there is one less moment of the season insulting their audience's intelligence.