User blog comment:TheDipDap1234/Trent - a Good or a Bad Character?/@comment-31556666-20150329131821

Really, Dip? Your big return to these and it's one of the more boring ones? I'll try my best with him but his flaws are very obvious.

In TDI, I didn't really love or hate Trent. When I first watched the show, he was immediately not one of my favorites. That's not to say I ever hated TDI Trent or anything, but... what was the point of him besides Gwent? Now I'm not gonna be one of those people who say that that's all Trent did in TDI. Trent's pain in this season was actually pretty funny because it is inflicted on a character who at first is perceived to be some kind of perfect guy. So these kinds of gags for Trent are completely out of left field. He also managed to have other minor funny moments too, like when he called DJ mommy. Gwent was fine I guess. I don't really have much of an opinion of it since it's pretty by-the-book. Nothing bad but nothing really special.

The one issue I did have with Trent is that not only did his actual personality revolve around Gwen, but when he shown his personality outside of her, while he seemed mostly like a relaxed and patient person, one odd moment was in Up the Creek, where he... threatened to re-arrange Cody's face. Like, what? Where did that come from? All this was an indication of was that the writers simply wanted to just do anything with Trent.

In TDA, Trent was my least favorite character of the season by far. Just about every other character did one thing or another to make me not hate them nearly as much as Trent. There's just no build-up to this obsessive version of Trent that focused his entire attention on Gwen. Now you could argue that this is the first time we actually see Trent in a relationship so his obsessiveness is open, but I saw how he treated Gwen in TDI. He was not acting like this. The way Trent talks to Gwen in TDA is how Cody would talk to her. Placing them on opposing teams was just more proof that Trent just can't stand-out on his own.

I dislike Trent but unlike many others, I feel like there's some kind of hope with him. He just has to be less obsessive and annoying so much that it makes me have to bash my skull through a window.