User blog comment:TheDipDap1234/Sky - a Good or a Bad Character?/@comment-31556666-20150405194554

I just dislike Sky.

Complaints that people make will probably be that she was in a stupid relationship like Skave and betrayed Dave. But that's not even my main reason for disliking her. When you watch moments in early episodes where Dave and Sky don't interact and Sky is on her own, what does she even do? Her only plot, up until Dave's elimination, is Dave. The fact that she lasts so long, yet has to have most of her screentime be interacting with her crush makes her boring right from the get-go.

Her fans say they like her because she cares more about the game than relationships. And that she's a real go-getter. I honestly couldn't care. That concept seems nice but Sky actually ruins it because she is Sky. Her voice acting heavily ruins things like her saying "I gotta win this!" Her voice is so monotonous and dry that I can't even cheer when she's talking about winning and all that other stuff. Her lines are also really cheesy, so I have to listen to dry voice acting on top of poorly unoriginal lines.

Even though Sky is full of corniness, she doesn't even develop with her weird lines. When Sky enters in not much of a memorable way than others in the first episode, she leaves without even developing. Sky doesn't learn anything from her experience. This makes her largely inferior to Shawn, who developed much better than she did. When Sky leaves, she has a smile despite causing a load of damage to Dave's brain. So even when Sky does something impactful, it's hard for me to even remember her because she bores me so much. Even worse, with her poor lines, bad exposition, and lack of development, even worse is that for the first nine episodes, nearly all of her lines are to do with either the competition or Dave.

To coincide with these major flaws, there's Sky's plot with Dave. I've sort of already established why I'm on Dave's side in this stupid mess, so why am I not on Sky's? Simple. Because unlike Dave where he has multiple confessionals to establish his thought process of doing weird actions to Sky, Sky barely ever does this. There are so many problems with her interaction with Dave. For one, Sky and Dave know that each other are attracted to the other as it's easy to detect. But it's said early on that Sky is more interested in the game. But does she tell the person who had an obvious crush on her? No. How is Dave even to know this? He kept going after Sky because he thought she was just as interested. How is he to know she cares more about winning when she doesn't even interact with him?

And don't get me started on the "But" line. Sky had hundreds of chances to finish her sentence. All it comes off across is that she's leading Dave on. If he's saying that the "but" can mean anything, I'm not surprised that he comes to that conclusion.

Do I even need to talk about Keith?!

Since we mostly just get Dave's perspective, when I see things like Sky yell in Dave's face and make him cry, I just get confused. Because there's absolutely no build-up to this. Sky loves Dave but then she yells in his face? Sure what he said was a bit drastic, but she was even worse saying "You will never be my boyfriend!" She doesn't even look sympathetic towards Dave when he cries. When she's up for elimination in the Bottom 2, her confusion just shows how little responsibility she takes for things.

In the finale, even though Dave previously cried because of her, and is the reason she wasn't even eliminated in Hurl and Go Seek, she's still mad when he comes back to help her, and even manipulates him into helping her out. That's just a horrible thing to do. And if you're saying Dave is an obsessed freak (which he is sometimes), you need to realize Sky didn't get this impression for the first 8 episodes. Both are extremely civil to each other. So one experience between the two causes this completely rushed build-up?

You know what's really bad? When arguments about Sky are being said, people immediately argue about Skave. Cause that's all Sky's plot is. Sure she had something with Sugar but remember, that was all to do with the thing Sky talked most about: the competition. Sky just doesn't do much to set her apart.

In PI, Sky is the only real fully normal person in a cast mostly made of gimmicks. Some like how Sky is the straight-woman to this, but since I don't see much of a distinguishable personality to her, it just makes her a tad unnoticeable to me.

Jasmine is just a superior Sky. Still athletic, but more likable, a far better relationship, more interactions, and steadily consistent. So what would I even want Sky for? She just comes across as a waste for me.

I don't care if Sky has flaws. What are they? Being a manipulative callous person? Definitely not much when it comes to game performance. I don't care if Sky is athletic. How do you manage to land perfectly on a robotic crocodile? How do you randomly pull a rope out of your pocket and swing over a cliff? It just makes me appreciate the flaws of other characters more because of this.

Sky is also inferior to many characters. I found Dave funnier in the two-sided attraction and also much more paced. I thought Shawn was a much better developed finalist. I think Jasmine is an all-around better character. I just can't get behind Sky at all.