Thread:Stryzzar/@comment-1037137-20141116014513/@comment-1037137-20141123030450

Yes, it absolutely was. And it may have almost completely destroyed Cameron's credibility in the fandom, as there's a lot of prevailing hate for his character now, even more so than in Revenge. He's no more safe from the flak he gets than Zoey or Mike are. And yes, the episode was set up for failure the moment they decided "Let's give Feral Zeke his own episode, as the 100th episode, at that". What part of the complaint about this joke dragging out too long do they not understand?

You're absolutely correct, character-killing episodes are totally inexcusable. And that's the message that needs to be sent to Fresh. Because they are far too content risking total character destruction for drama that's lacking in any intelligence, meaning, craft, or purpose. There are rules for how to do drama properly and clearly they don't understand that.

But even if Courtney wasn't completely wrecked in SMS, I don't think an ice cream-making challenge is very clever or funny. It's really stupid in this setting actually, and made worse by the fact that the interns were deliberately starved as the setup for the challenge, and they don't get fed at all. Distasteful and idiotic does not begin to describe how any of it played out. At best it would've been a tolerable, if still stupid challenge if you didn't have those other crimes committed in that episode. But it's still one of the dumbest challenges I've seen in this series.

True. You gotta give Laurie Elliott credit, her contributions to the season were nowhere near as painful as the efforts of the other three writers, and it seems she can actually get in one or two good episodes with the right effort and material to work with. And you are probably right that most of it wasn't her idea and that she was simply working with what had been handed to her. Who knows how she really feels about Scourtney, or Sierra, whatever. Her episodes weren't particularly strong, but they were nothing close to offensive, which is where the other three writers fall.

They were really milking that "Duncan's a softie" plot for all it wasn't actually worth. XP You know, a fighting challenge isn't exactly an appropriate place to be setting up a running gag as your opponent.

Zoey fighting Larry? Hey that actually might've been cool, seeing how she nearly got eaten by him once, something I'm sure the haters wouldn't have minded seeing. XD Alas, even this episode didn't know what to do with Zoey so she was in an unusual instance, a sideliner. Weird choice seeing how much she was groomed as the ultimate fan favorite. = /

Okay, I concede, some of the matchups were weak.