User blog comment:TheDipDap1234/Courtney - a Good or a Bad Character?/@comment-2091662-20141103182921/@comment-1037137-20141104082600

I strongly disagree. See, it's that among other things that I think make this season way overrated. Stuff like that caused problems in the long run, it caused bloody fan wars and controversy. And not everybody was onboard with that decision, one that was not even made on logical grounds. So I don't believe it deserves that rating, I have never understood that.

No. In all three of the first seasons, their interactions were few and far between. You had that episode in TDI, yes. You had Castaways and Yeti, but that's it for Island. They were apart for 3/4s of Action, and nearly a full half of World Tour. So there was not enough time spent together, even when they were on the same set, for something that lovestruck to develop. Not even close to the time spent together with Gwent and Duncney. Their chemistry as Gwuncan is so superficial. And after that, it's purely kissing. People didn't like that that's all that Geoff and Bridgette did, so why this gets a pass never made sense either. It was mostly smooching, never talking. So no, I'm not kidding.

Out of nowhere, it never happened in TDA and then suddenly in the TDA special she's obsessed with him? No, more substance is needed than that. They barely explained the reasons for said sudden attraction.

No. That is not true about Gwen. She was not the selfish type in TDI. And not even in TDA, in TDA she somehow grew foolish and impulsive, but not selfish. TDWT is where she became selfish. And boy-hungry. She liked Trent, but was more in control of herself than that. Gwen wasn't usually the one to act so impulsively in Island.

It was far closer to her TDI self than her TDA self, that's the balance they found again only to wreck again. Hence, 'derailment'. If TDA was her derailment in the eyes of most, then what happened in the second half of TDWT also qualifies, regardless of how justified her heartbreak and feeling of betrayal was, because they just went crazy with that.

Well that's one thing we agree on, but the triangle still had a role to play at least to an extent.