User blog comment:Smartbook/What do you think of Dave?/@comment-4742462-20150107045938/@comment-25285054-20150108172630

Dave wasn't...derailed though. Not only is it hard to do that in a debut season, but there is literally progression to his mental breakdown in the finale. He was already clingy long before that, just moreso as as the season went along. He literally cries over her in episodes like This is the pits and Three Zones And a Baby, which was long before the finale (and an overreaction in the events that caused it.) Overall it's more like backwards development than derailment.