User blog comment:TheDipDap1234/Sugar - a Good or a Bad Character?/@comment-31556666-20141029214510

Sugar's a difficult character for me to talk about. She's one who I'm pretty neutral towards. I started hating her at first, thinking of her as an unlikable gag character, with not really much redeeming factors to her personality. To go along with her disgusting humor and unlikable personality, there was her treatment towards Ella, which I found completely uncalled for, as if Ella was being tortured in some way for absolutely nothing.

After this, I started to like Sugar for a little while. What she had that other antagonists didn't was her natural way of integrating her personality into even inadvertedly doing certain bad things. I also started to find her pretty hilarious, being a unique creation of a character. In addition, I found her conflict with Ella one of the show's most interesting. It's the most iconically one-sided conflict right now. It was also smart enough to factor in both Sugar's pageant thinking, and Ella's optimistic thinking, clashing one another. Despite me previously considering her as not a good use to her team, rewatching the season, I started to to feel the opposite. Apart from Shawn and Sky, Sugar was the most useful member of her team. She beat Samey in A Blast From the Past, and threw the coin in the vending machine for her team to win in Mo' Monkeys, Mo' Problems (even beating Jasmine of all the hardworking people she could've beaten!). To go along with this, she was decent at strategizing in the game every once in a while. Sure she escaped eliminations out of sheer luck, but had she not made the Final 3, the season would lose most of its pizzazz.

In the end though, I settled on just being neutral towards Sugar. The things to like about her and the things to hate about her combine for me after everything. She got 3rd, which means she'll possibly be a future finalist, similar to other third place people like Heather, Owen, and  Zoey. In any case, we're seeing plenty of her in the future, and her future appearances will determine whether she's worth the satisfaction or not.