User blog comment:AD744/Character Appreciation - Week 46: Sky/@comment-30567301-20171115215954

to me, it was pretty obvious from the start that this was their "rebound" zoey. not when it comes to actual personality traits, but in term of figure. they wanted sky to be the nice, athletic, pretty, objectively flawless in the eyes of a hormonal 11 year old boy the series is geared towards, yet she, in actuality is not really any of her positive personality traits by the end of the season in a very shock turn of events. she's widely considered the "normal one", but like everyone on total drama pahkitew island, she was driven to insanity. her road was pretty different than the others. we're introduced to her and immediately you could hear the groans from the fandom whining about "another zoey" which, in hindsight was a valid concern i suppose. anyway, she's pretty much a team player until skave starts to form which, is a very mixed bag for me. on one side, skave is very excellently crafted and provides a lot of shock value, on the other side of things, there's also how it came to be. denying that skave was pretty much like watching a cringy, poorly made love story before things got interesting would be a lie. quite frankly it was pretty hard to watch some of the scenes, especially when we were bombarded by sky having a dream containing things i wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. as for sky herself, she's not really an interesting character from what we saw, she's interesting based on her surroundings. is this neccessarily a bad thing? no. but it does mean that she is not able to hold up her own without others around to prop her up. however, she does have a sense of appeal when it comes to more of a "dry" humor (see: goths) as she's pretty much a self-parody of bland mary sues everywhere. the scenario is what makes her. being surrounded by psychos certainly helped her as her interactions with the likes of dave and sugar certainly made for enjoyable screentime when executed properly. when delving deep into her actions, it's pretty obvious that she WAS trying to be a good person; it's just that she got so fed up with the weirdos around her that she snapped, and not only did she do it with no remorse, she did it for her own personal gain. does this make her the scum sucking vehement demonic wh*re that most of the total drama fandom painted her out to be? of course not. it's pretty laughable how much people complain and complain about how characters like zoey, bridgette, and sky revolve around their love; and when the writers take them in a different direction, it's the WRONG direction, cause women are supposed to be perfect and flawless and nice at all times! she certainly has flaws, she's very obviously a indecisive mess who would rather let madness ensue before taking care of things herself and she also has a very big superiority complex when it comes to competition, a sore loser. these are all very enjoyable traits for me as a viewer, but were so downplayed in a way to whitewash sky as a angel protagonist, that i was left dry in that department most of the time. the way that sky was written really just shows the different standards for female characters to me as, sky not wanting to be in a relationship with dave was seen as so evil to put her up in the likes of courtney when it came to hypocrisy in the eyes of the total drama fandom. yet, characters like duncan and mike being barely held accountable for playing not one, but two women at once, whilst the fandom covers up their discrepancies in thinly veiled excuses of "courtney abused duncan she got what she deserved" and "i can't believe how ZOEY treated anne maria!!" it's not like she wasn't being led on and lied to by the first friend she's ever made. my closing thoughts on sky are really that, she's a solid character, i like her, but she's a subproduct of everyone else. on a season outside of her own, she'd be a snooze. and she still sort of WAS a snooze outside of the post-merge. however, sky is a character who works for a lot of different scenes. i wouldn't even be surprised to see a more antagonistic sky in the future (which will of course include more sl*t shaming by the fandom). her rocket to insanity was certainly an worthy ending to a bittersweet ride. best season: gee don't know best episode: hurl and go seek best moment: anytime she displays a negative trait most likely to: make it far again, once again be wiped out of a lot of her negativity, make up with dave and feel guilty for things she absolutely shouldn't where i would take her next: stop wiping out her negative traits as much and give her incentive to be a lot more competitive in a lighter tda courtney type of way.