User blog comment:Epic~00/Why Total Drama All Stars Was Such An Abysmal Season (PART 4)/@comment-24971793-20141030161213/@comment-1037137-20141030180134

The way it all played out was played far too straight and genuinely for them to even justify this outrageous twist. I mean, she actually admitted to Lindsay thinking that Gwen was her friend, and seemed upset about the whole thing. And this was when she was talking to Lindsay, whom she's never gotten along with, she has no other reason to admit such a thing but she did. Not exactly something to gloss over.

They devoted a whole season to all this so where the hell did this come from? And did they forget that it was MAL who was supposed to be the villain? They didn't play him like a villain, they just made up excuses for him to get by. This was one of them. And in case the writers forgot their own plot, Mal was the villain, not Courtney. So what was up with this turn? The decision to make her a villain in TDA was never a popular one anyway. Back then this might've made sense as much as that season sucks, but in this there was no justification for it. Might've made more sense if Mal constructed that thing himself and tried to frame her with it, might've made Mal a little less of a farce in his role.