User blog comment:TDWTisAWESOME/Your "Official" endings./@comment-26350151-20151024055512/@comment-26350151-20170127195351

Lindsay and Harold's roles in the season were short-lived and didn't last the entire way through. They come close to Duncan in terms of relevance and arguably do develop more than Duncan did but ultimately fall short due to their lack of ultimate impact, especially because their eliminations were so underwhelming to begin with. Even without that in mind, losing and skipping the last few steps of the season's story sort of does that for anyone.

Beth on the other hand was always just a side character; Lindsay's sidekick and for the most part nothing more. She wasn't relevant to anything worthwhile for a whole TWENTY-ONE episodes and only did things and became important once Lindsay was gone. That to me doesn't say "main character of the entire season", it says "shoehorned finalist's spot". They didn't build up Beth's development and impact at all, they just handed it to her for free at the last minute. That just doesn't work for a story.

Duncan got the most focus, the most story-related content (besides arguably Courtney, who's the main antagonist), and the most personal history with the season's villain. Duncan may be mean-spirited and a bully on occasion, and was definitely a threat to some of the other characters, but that's not what makes the difference between a protagonist and an antagonist. A protagonist isn't the main HERO of the story, it's just the main CHARACTER of the story regardless of morals and alignments. That's why Heather's the main protagonist of World Tour despite obviously still being a villain.

Duncan's an anti-hero at worst in Action and at the end of the day to me he was still supportable enough to win, and even if he wasn't he still definitely deserved to win more than Beth (who again, did literally nothing of importance for all but five episodes of the season; even Cody did more than that in World Tour).