User blog comment:BlueBarracudas555/The Return of Dawn/@comment-24152851-20150308012301/@comment-24152851-20150308154037

@Welly. Lol, it's okay. Not everyone agrees with what I say, but nonetheless I could've gone into a bit more detail. I'll clarify what I meant.

Thing with Lightning is he was barely relevant for the first half of the season. His conflict with Cameron came out of nowhere. It was done only to justify his place in the finale as the villain, since they kicked both Jo and Scott out. While his conflict with Zoey barely existed at all. They only had one episode of direct interaction. His interactions with Jo and mistaking her for a guy is about the only plot that he had prior to the merge, and other than that he was irrelevant comic relief. For a finalist, he has very little interactions, and doesn't even have a "everyone and" page.

What I meant by do nothing is, after a whole season, we still know almost nothing about Lightning. The only time we ever got some insight was 5 minutes in the finale, where we see he has a dad who he's trying to impress, but other than that he gave nothing in the whole season.

Now back to Dawn. She lasted less than half the time that he did, but she already had her interactions with B and Scott. Yes Lightning did squeeze in one more interaction than her, but you have to consider how much longer he lasted. Considering how long he had, he could've acquired at least 2 more major interactions, but he do much with all that extra time. If Dawn could've achieve practically the same amount of interactions in that much shorter duration, she could have done a lot more if she lasted longer. For a start, her conflict with Scott could've easily replaced Scott's conflict with Zoey, and tbh it would've been a lot more interesting to watch.