User blog comment:Don25/Why many Courtney fans, do not we want her to be a finalist?/@comment-4726418-20171227141409/@comment-25285054-20171227233153

Well for one thing, you're treating yourself as the voice of Courtney fans when in reality the vast majority of them 100% want her to win a season.

Also, I don't see the correlation between a character winnng and them derailing. Most of the characters you listed as examples went down in quality because they were overexposed, not because of the fact that they happened to be finalists.

The examples you used really dont work as evidence to this theory anyway. Alejandro and Heather were derailed? Since when, Heather was exactly the same in TDAS outside of a few dumber moments, Alejandro was just slightly more vunerable. Mike, Zoey and Beth didn't even reapear after their finale seasons so you cant argue with they were "derailed after their finale season" and in the case of zoke, people dislike how they were portrayed beggining to finish so it has nothing to do with derailment. Lightning? He was exactly the same but he got out faster.

This whole "finalst curse" thing you're trying to push just doesn't make sense and has little basis. You're connecting the dots in an overly circumstancial way, "I don't like how these characters were written and they're finalists, so being a finalist is bad!" Personally I wouldn't call a single character you mentioned derailed, except perhaps Gwen. The way the fandom just uses it as a knee jerk reaction to any plot deveopment they don't like has really drained it of any meaning