User blog comment:TheDipDap1234/Courtney - a Good or a Bad Character?/@comment-1037137-20141101173540

For the most part I've always enjoyed Courtney. Except for TDA where she admittedly did get pretty annoying, making her a villain that season was a stupid idea. But looking back, one positive thing I can say about her in that season is that she did restore some actual competitiveness to a season that suffered from having none of that. By TDWT by liking for her had been restored and I was enjoying her there as much as I did in TDI, and then that stupid love triangle undid everything. And ever since I've been rooting for her redemption and that of the other characters, Gwen being the close second. I think Courtney is a fun and strong character a lot of the time and she is undoubtedly a three-dimensional character, though I understand why she isn't as well-liked as she once was among some. But I do think she can be a great character, and can be a much greater one than these writers' decisions are allowing to happen. I have a certain appreciation for her competitive streak, but she's most fun when she balances that out with the sense of fairness and civility she had at strongest in TDI. You can have both sides to this character without going overboard with either half (Meaning, none of that BS in either Regatta or SMS, you know what I mean in each respective case). This is a character I'd love to see rise above all that crap she keeps going through in each season. TDAS had me thinking they were finally on the way to doing that, so that's why that season is their biggest screwover yet when not only did the rest of the season suck, but someone decided they just wanted to unravel her completely. I feel resentful that she keeps slipping back into that unlikable half that has been played up too much, but I still think she can rise past all that and find the balance again if they would just let it happen for once. Because this constant zigzagging with one character........Lay off of it, writers. I'm not fooling around here, give it a rest. There's my two cents since the question was asked.