Thread:Fire Eater/@comment-24152851-20141126042007/@comment-1037137-20141206083037

I'm not too ashamed to say I liked her in ROTI, though that would probably change somewhat with another viewing one of these days. But she still had more moments in that season than she ever did in this should've-been-aborted season. She was absolutely dreadful in TDAS, being played up as the hero but coming across as a hapless moron the entire time, which makes her ludicrous winning streak even harder to accept as being even remotely possible. If Zoey were simply a boring character, that's one thing. But there's simply no arguing the lack of subtlety in how much they wanted us to like her, even if it meant forcing us to do so. And I don't even get why they played her up so much, they had way, way, way too high the hopes that Zoey would guarantee the success of the season alongside Mike. That only happened for those who are diehard Zoke fans, they were the only ones to get anything out of this.

It is very sady. The tragedy is she never had to be that bad. She never had to be such a big controversy. But with this kind of handling and writing, you have to wonder why more people haven't been let go for causing this mess that Fresh is probably never going to hear the end of.