User blog comment:ArtDraw12/Say something positive about/@comment-31556666-20161204002624

The love triangle is by FAR the most underrated TD storyline out there. I felt enamoured watching a kids show tackle such a dark yet realistic subject matter and it made complete sense through and through. It all started back when Duncan got with Courtney, and Gwen got with Trent. Then in TDA, you had the whole Gwen vs Trent team business with Duncan being on Gwen's team and Lindsay being randomly in the mix for like 2 minutes too lol<3. Then there was clear flirting with Duncan and Gwen since they're just naturally banter together. Knowing Courtney, it's clear that Duncan ~is so gonna get it~. Courtney then debuts and shames Duncan but yet has a crush on him (...Wait when did they break up, what?). After it is confirmed that Courtney essentialy wants to change every single aspect of Duncan's sense of style, hair, and even his entire personality, she gives him this big essay of what he should change to in that episode that had the worst F4 ever. He feels annoyed, votes her off and betrays her. She freaks out but votes him to win anyway. Then they get back together so yay. Then they continue to be the most toxic relationship ever. Like, if they were a married couple, at least one of them would be dead before 50.

Then in WT, Duncan, Courtney, and Gwen are all competing together again. Duncan quits cause he hates Frozen, before making a dramatic return halfway through the season. Courtney does her usual bit of slating Duncan yet still somehow being attracted regardless. It was at that point Duncan had enough and kisses Gwen all because of a busted lock. Then Tyler randomly gets in the mix (lmao) and then gets blackmailed into revealing the whole thing to everyone!

Now a common complaint with the love triangle is that Courtney and Gwen get way more of an insulting than Duncan did. And I guess I kiiind of agree. But to day Duncan got off lightly is just wrong. He repeatedly got physically harmed for his wrongdoing. He got beaten up by a bear and nearly eaten by it, got a one punch knockout from Cody that gave him a black eye, got kicked in the crotch by Courtney, got zapped by aliens, got beaten up by a kangaroo, and probably more. Yes he got slightly less, but this is meant to be a positive blog. The point is, he DID get repercussions for what he did.

The love triangle itself made complete sense from all points of view: Gwen kissed Duncan because she's had that romantic tension with him for ages, Courtney got insanely and violently mad because it was an understandable thing to be upset by, and Duncan kissed Gwen because he was going out with an abusive partner. The three of them all do bad acts, but it's all three dimensional and understandable and I just LIVED for it. It's like something you'd see in one of those Netflix dramas. Fantastic TV for me.

So besides me thinking the entire love triangle and it's set up made perfect sense, it in and of itself was entertaining. See, I liked the first half of WT because it was comedic and had all these fun goofballs to watch and it was just fun because you could watch an episode relaxingly knowing Team Victory would obviously just lose. But I mean, come on. You couldn't just do a 26 episode season where it's all this comedy apart from Alejandro being the odd one out. The love triangle reappearing balances things out and makes someone like Alejandro mesh better.

To be completely frank, the love triangle is a top 5 storyline, was fantastically well written and it SHOULD be acknowledged.