User blog comment:Epic~00/In Defense of: Dave/@comment-25097405-20150321012800/@comment-31556666-20150321153102

@Queen I disagree. There's a difference between how Dave and TDA Trent approached the game.

From what we saw in TDI, it's clear that Trent is fully capable of doing well in challenges but in TDA he chooses not to contribute just so he can impress Gwen. Trent is infuriating because this is a slap in the face to his past usefulness, and it makes him come across as a peachy pathetic character.

Dave on the other hand was already not really that good at the competition anyways. He was prissy, germaphobic, whiny, and has weak arms. There's no way he'd be able to do half as much as anyone else on his team. Besides, Dave still tried in challenges more than TDA Trent. Without Dave's random "secret weapon" of a banana, it would've been much harder to lure monkeys in Mo' Monkeys, Mo' Problems. Dave also opposed stupid plans like one's Leonard makes because Dave tries to contribute using his head. In I Love You Grease Pig for example, Dave already thinks Sky should be the last runner as that obviously improves their chances and he comes across like he is right. In A Blast From the Past, it would've been MUCH less likely for Shawn to be adamant about knocking Jasmine off the bridge. Dave telling Shawn that Jasmine is a zombie is one of the reasons Maskwak even won that challenge in the first place.

By all this logic, Dave is a FAR better teammate than Trent.