User blog comment:Jam7/Welp... this episode blew./@comment-5956575-20131122133720

Okay, here it goes...

Despite not liking Courtney much at all, this episode clearly tried to make her seem lower than ever. And unlike Jam, I do in fact hate TDA Courtney's guts, but not enough to have her character suffer like this. The abomination that was this episode was atrocious, a monstrosity to say the least. This entire season was building Courtney's character up with her two most important relationships with Gwen & Scott. And as weird as her friendship with Gwen was & how rushed the Scottney couple got, along with it starting to derail into a mild rehased version of DxC, it was good character development for Courtney indeed. Courtney may be a horrible person, but certainly I among anyone can realize that she is a great character (like Duncan, Heather & Alejandro). Although this season had many things wrong, Courtney's development was one of the things they got right.

Her & Duncan's development were pretty amazing this season with their own storylines finally not involving one another. However, Duncan's story was left back at the start. I was sad, but I was thinking, "At least Courtney is getting the development she not only needs, but is what could build her character up stronger." So when this recent episode came crashing down on us, I was real disappointed that the writers (*Cough* *Cough* Ed MacDonald), pretty much made her the most unlikable person in the world. I may not like her, but I could tolerate her & started gaining respect for her as she was developing nicely. This episode destroyed all of the redeeming qualities Courtney had left for the sake of eliminating her. And like many others have said, they all expected Courtney to leave, so why couldn't she have just lost the challenge and gotten voted out via Mal without the destroying of the character? It amazes me to see that these new writers not only completely ignored all the previous seasons, but they didn't care about trashing a character. No character deserved to go the way Courtney's just did. That is why I feel sorry for Zeke.

This season was definitely no All Stars season. An All Star season for me had: Duncan, Owen, Trent, Harold, Noah, Geoff, Alejandro, Brick, Scott, Ezekiel (normal) & for the girls: Courtney, Heather, Lindsay, Gwen, Izzy, Beth, Dawn,Eva ,Bridgette. And having 26 episodes would allow for maximum character development amongst all of these characters. I have never seen a character (other than Zeke) get thrown away so horribly. Almost makes me regret watching this season. I'm ready for Pakihtew at this point. If there is another season with the originals, they are going to need a good set of characters, along with 26 EPISODES, and WRITERS that are willing to take the time & effort into correctly developing them. Thank you.