User blog comment:Don25/About the couple Brick and Jo./@comment-30567301-20171113040110

don't really care about the toxicity part cause i mean, hell, it's a cartoon and they're also teenagers so i doubt they'd have a perfect healthy relationship that no one on total drama has had lol.

when it comes down to the couple, personally for me, it's a pretty unsatisfying to have such a enjoyable and passionate rivalry be broken up for shipping reasons. i don't really see where brick or jo would go next after forming a relationship and honestly don't really want to! even if jo were to experience character development, her basic code of ethics or toxic tendencies would still be intact, just like heather so if people were expecting some cinderella story it definitely wouldn't be that lol.

i see why people ship them i mean TWO (2) people OF the opposite sex?? who are also feuding in conflict but COULD SECRETLY LIKE EACHOTHER!!!! is the soap opera the audience is clutching their pearls to see. however, seeing this track record of shipping; i genuinely do not want to hear the excuse of the possible relationship being sustained by "if the character had development then it could work" cause, that makes sense for every character. it's the same excuse people make to ship their random obscure otp that are only their otp cause 1) it's their favorite characters of the differing genders and 2) the characters are both hot. we've already seen this quote on quote CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT to fit a ship which is another disaster within itself.

do i think jo x brick is an inherently bad ship? no; in fact i think any couple has potential if it's well written. could they be well written? of course, knowing those statistics though, i'm not very keen on experimenting with the idea that could easily lead to a slippery slope. but i'd be lying if i told you i wasn't more interested in seeing them as individual characters first. honestly, even if they got together i feel it would be more of a ploy to get development from either (likely brick's end) by having jo be abusive or whatever and they break up or something. either way, i don't really like couples in total drama cause i feel moreso that they always bring the character down instead of up, and the rare case it does it's widely criticized, yet again this is coming from the fanbase that still thinks shawn and jasmine are a good pairing so what do i know lmfao.