User blog comment:TDWT: Planes, Trains, and Hot Air Mobiles/Duncey vs. Gwuncan/@comment-24971793-20140702124055/@comment-24971793-20140702194755

If Gwen is very slow and cautious about who she get's intimate with. Then it does make sense that she didn't display romantic sentiment towards Duncan before the TDWT season. She learned that she had some things in common with Duncan and found him a cool guy in TDI -> she became very close friends with him in TDA -> and she fell in love with him between TDA and TDWT. So it sounds like she stayed true to her character, since it took so long for her to develop a crush.

For Duncan, as said in my original post I don't think he ever really loved either of them. He commented in TDI that he thought Gwen was hot and when he noticed she had feelings for him in TDWT he took advantage of it. He was bored of his relationship with Courtney. Jam7, I also think Courtney and Gwen came to the realisation that Duncan didn't love them in All Stars. But that doesn't take away the fact that the whole storyline about Gwen going through so much effort to win back the trust of someone she was never friends with to begin with was absurd.

The lovetriangle shouldn't have happened, I hated it. But that being said in retrospect it was predictable and I didn't find it character derailment. Although it could have been more believable if they gave it a bit more time to develop. I'll admit that, it might have been more rushed than I remember :p

About the loyalty thing, I still don't see it. Nothing ever tested her "loyalty" in TDI, yeah she stayed friends with Leshawna but there was no conflict in TDI that could have seperated them. And she didn't really have that much interaction with Bridgette.

I agree about the blackmailing and throwing challenges. It was nothing for her, and yes she did get derailed over the seasons and even within the first season.