User blog comment:TheDipDap1234/Scarlett - a Good or a Bad character?/@comment-31556666-20141112201738

I personally, with 100% certainty, and with nothing stopping me from saying it, that Scarlett... is okay I guess.

I mean, I suppose she's an alright character. Certainly better than most of the PI cast by a long shot (Beardo, Leonard, Amy, Rodney, Topher, Dave). Unfortunately, I find her to be quite frankly one of the most overrated characters in the entire series. I was not expecting your blog series to talk about a character like Scarlett, who I know already will have most people in this comments section saying that they love her. But I admittedly just can't.

Let's actually look at what people even thought of Scarlett before Scarlett Fever aired. Many people, myself included, found her to just kind of not really be doing much, similar to Topher. Only interacting with Max primarily, she hadn't really stood out to me that much. After a while, I was wondering what her actual purpose was besides being the straight woman to Max's comic relief moments.

Her being evil was so obvious though, and it was something the show was really loving to do about Scarlett, and made her seem at least a little intriguing. People were already beginning to like her at this point, although there was still a few people questioning her.

And then once you get to Scarlett Fever, everyone's opinion of her changes dramatically. Here was many people saying that this was just the best episode of the season, maybe even one of the best of the entire series. As someone who finds Scarlett to be possibly the most overrated character in the show, I find Scarlett Fever to be one of the most overrated episodes.

Was it bad? No. It had some very entertaining moments, not even counting ones that Scarlett was in. The twist was as fantastic as I expected it to be too. But apart from Max's dumb elimination and Chris' attitude in the episode, Scarlett was one thing holding the episode back. Her plan was to... blackmail Chris into giving her money or she'd kill all of the contestants. Dark, but pretty fun to think about. But the problem comes when Scarlett is abrubtly defeated. Not that anyone expected her to come out on top by the end of the episode. They just dumbed her down completely towards the conclusion of the episode where Max of all people is the one who tricks her in the end. As a character who's presented as a cunning villain, Scarlett never did anything successful. Even if she failed at everything, I wished more thought was put into her being defeated in a more clever way.

And really, what more can actually be done with her character at this point? She's a one trick pony at this point, who's now being labelled as a supervillain. Sure, she's nowhere near being a bad character with an intriguing twist to her character and entertaining conflict with Max (I'd put her somewhere between the Top 25-30), but she's overwhelmingly overloved for wrong reasons, and I know that I'll be one of the only commenters who says that she's just average, while I bet that everyone else will just go on about how much they love her.

Geoff or Scott are ones that I hope are next. If you're doing this on a weekly basis, maybe you could give us hints each week of which character we will all be discussing next.