User blog comment:BlueBarracudas555/Discussion: Characters that everyone else hates that you LOVE./@comment-4742462-20150731165315/@comment-1037137-20150801001324

@CoGreen2.0 No need to apologize dude, that was all my bad. We all got a little hotheaded back then, yes. But don't sweat it, we're cool. :)

Wow man, you said it. Just a smokescreen for Mal's ineffectiveness as a villain, and that is one of the killing blows of this season. We got the mass character derailment coupled with the astounding stupidity of everybody in the face of this "threat", or not even in the face of him, that only accelerated that derailment. If you got to dumb down everyone to get one character by and basically treat them as irrelevant once that is done, then that's probably not something that should've made it in. That's an idea that was just doomed. Why should so many characters have to suffer just to pave the way for one (or two), and made to act out of character to amount to such a meaningless outcome?

That makes sense, I actually have met people who would like to see a mix of Scott from ROTI and TDAS, because people actually like aspects of both versions. And you know what? I think they could work together if it's done carefully. He definitely gained a lot more fans in TDAS, probably for the reasons you stated. And to be fair......While he was very awkward at times, he wasn't that offensive. I mean I could've done without some aspects of it, but Scott is definitely not the Achilles' Heel here. Gotta at least give him that, and he had a handful of memorable moments, ones some of us are okay with remembering.

Yeah, TDAS turned nearly everybody into a sad shell or parody of what they were. And backtracked many of their characters greatly. The development and consistency just aren't there. If the Zoke glory train is not what ticks people off first, then surely these godawful character treatments do.