Thread:Fire Eater/@comment-24152851-20141126042007/@comment-24152851-20141218034011

I concede, it's definitely a really shoddy terrible purpose. These days I almost wish he was one of the famous 4 fodders out. That way he wouldn't have been derailed and might even be missed like them. But then someone who really likes to keep sparing him elimination takes over in the next episode, and all that BS ensues. I read on FB when Moon Madness had just aired it had the caption "Gwen and Duncan breaking up, and Cameron on the Villains Team? Is today opposite day?" I what they were trying to do was make things messed up as part of a kid's appeal. Well it sure as hell didn't work.

While I didn't hate Scott that season, even I thought he was severely overrated after how much love he got. He did nothing and just kept getting hurt for no reason, that's Tyler's job who is so much better at it. And then he keeps being an idiot and messing up his lines "Will you be my boyfriend" and suddenly he's at the top of the fanbase.

I was really surprised to see him go second, but part of me was really glad of it. We wouldn't have him floating past the merge again. Though I'm not really sure his absence in the season made it any better. He might qualify as Demoted to Extra, I think in Total Drama terms that applies to characters who become one of those supporting aftermath characters. I did add "Flat Character" to him though, since he has no characterization aside from being an idiot.

Yeah that one's definitely allowed. Quite a big deal has been made about that word before. It's only prohibited if you add "-hole" to the end of it. They didn't even pretend they were trying to give a purpose to him, he was even worse than Lightning as a floater, as even he talked to more people pre-merge. No one other than Chris even notices his existence. Topher can go like: "You're up baby" to Samey/Amy and they'll be like "Huh, who said that?", that's literally how insignificant he is. Can't believe they ditched Samey and Ella for him. Julie says she never hates a character, but she got a question whether Topher was a villain or antihero, and she was like "I'm not sure he's either, he lacks the villain edge that's required". That's as close to an acknowledgement of how pointless a character he is, even Sugar had more purpose than him. Placing wise he doesn't have a high chance, but he just seems similar to the kind of floating, aimless character they like to bring back for the sake of bringing back. We'll see.

Fair enough, back then I really felt Mal was wasted potential, but he couldn't possibly have had poorer execution. Justin just sits there and barely exists so you can ignore him quite easily, but Mal has to do so much damage while he's there.