User blog comment:Fedora Kid/Saving Private Leechball Review/@comment-1734566-20130925073306

And another major thing I would add, which I forgot in the blog. Although I'm still looking forward to Mike's evil personality, I found a massive problem with him in this episode. Other than his somewhat bad-a$$ and funny at the same time confessional about "scary girls," the one thing he did in this episode was break Sam's game system. And, again, besides the fact that I genuinely felt sorry for Sam when he found out about it, it does beg the question: How the heck was that a strategic move in any way whatsoever? It's not sabotaging the other team like Scott did, it's not manipulating others like Justin/Alejandro did, and it's not cleverly planning out eliminations like Heather did. It was just...plain mean. I seriously hope The Malevolent One quickly starts doing things that are more clever and strategic, not just all-out mean. Otherwise he won't be the awesome antagonist we were expecting; just an obnoxious bully like Jo (in TDR) or Lightning.

With that said, this is the deciding factor that ultimately places this episode in the "Neutral" category for me.