User blog comment:Tdwwebbtfan/Mike: A bad character or just poorly written?/@comment-3394399-20170610125223

Oh my gosh, I never expected a follow-up blog for that. Thanks for making me more relevant!

Anyways, yeah, the problem with Mike is that this show is full of stereotypes and for a character with multiple personalities it's hard for it to not be offensive. I agree that his ROTI incarnation was maybe a little more popular before All Stars, but there's still some base level problems there with making a character's personality defined by a disorder.

For me, the biggest difference between Mike and Zoey is how much they wavered from what they were originally meant to be. Whereas with Zoey, we could've found a new Gwen in the loner indie chick, Mike was always meant to be THE MPD guy, so it's hard for me to find a way he could've been potentiall salvaged after that.

Personally I don't really care for Mike either way, he was in two of the most lackluster seasons of the franchise so it's not suprising for a lackluster character to be main focus in those. I don't really think he should return unless we really get to learn more about Mike himself, but from the scenes he's appeared in it doesn't seem like there's too much personality there anyways.