Thread:Fire Eater/@comment-24152851-20141126042007/@comment-1037137-20141202020923

Exactly. He was never a hero, and for those many claims that he isn't villain material, that's all bogus. That's all borne out of an incessant need to defend the guy for some silly reason. He may be too lazy to advance to the level of the other antagonists, but the guy clearly has an antagonist edge and clearly could be a villain if the were to become one. It's all there, the guy has no honor or nobility left in him. He is perfectly happy doing wrong just for the laughs he gets out of it. So any claim that he could never be a villain or doesn't have the characteristics of one is bull in my opinion.

And yes, had he been antagonist in Courtney's place, that would've solved a lot of problems. Say what you will of Courtney, everybody has many times, but in TDI she was more virtuous than Duncan and more honorable. And the decision to make her an antagonist was and remains a deeply unpopular decision. Duncan at the time fit the bill much better and would not have been so much a derailment of him as it was for Courtney for sure, as it would have been simply fully realizing the obvious villain factor the guy does in fact possess to a considerable extent. And you're also right, he was a big floater.

This is why I have a deep distrust in Fresh, they don't act like the professionals they insist they are. As far as I'm concerned, they're deeply unprofessional and don't take their work seriously enough to justify them even being here. A lot of them are the wrong people for the job.

Hopefully not, but whatever the case he did bring out her bad side and that has been sticking for too damn long. So screw him and Duncney for that. She was a lot more fun when she was the more honorable one of the two. Most people will say the same thing when it comes to her current persona next to her original persona. And Gwen, holy crap, why can't they get her right? I mean damn it. They've screwed up so badly on both girls that it's literally impossible not to comment on how bad they've been first and foremost in any derailment discussion. Because they've easily had it the worst. As for Gwen and Cameron, them remaining simply friends is okay but Gwen would've taken more time to associate with anybody including him, and that should've been the case here. She wouldn't be mean to him, I don't think, but she would take her time regardless.

Perhaps, but wait a minute, she was devoted to Trent right up to just before the breakup. I don't recall her taking any really strong interest in Duncan beyond a friendship level at that point either. And again, it was not until the TDA special that she first experienced and confirmed an actual crush on the son of a gun. I guess I will have to reexamine that page later.

Either way, Zoey was undeniably and unquestionably stupid in TDAS. And that really played against her winning anybody over who disliked her in TDROTI, if anything it only made her a bigger annoyance and a bigger Scrappy to the series. And sucks the common sense out of how she could possibly win so many times with so little effort and make the finals on top of it all if she's really that lacking in insightfulness.