Thread:Geo1234/@comment-5231983-20160806025321/@comment-27447405-20160807015226

Yay I am gonna barge into this thread.

Yeah I hate Cameron too, I despise characters that are what I call "flanderized underdogs" like him; characters that the writers are so focused on making them so unrealistically weak and helpless physically but ironically unrealistically intelligence. It comes across as forcing "he's an underdog" down our throats when he really isn't even a true one. A true underdog wouldn't be that smart or that helpless. Cody, Beth, and Zeke are examples of actual underdogs, they were never flanderized. Also, I agree Lightning's ending is better. Cameron's ending was just so cheesy; we knew he would beat Lightning with his brain, we knew everyone would be happy for him, and we knew he would be oh so sweet and share it with everyone since they're all his friends. (and this coming from a guy who still adores classic Disney films like Cinderella and still cries like a b**ch in The Fox and The Hound). I am so sick of the "sweet and kind brains come on top of the jerk brawn" stereotype so it was nice that they went the realistic route. Lightning wasn't even that big of a jerk, just overcompetitve and arrogant, but not really "mean." He even saved Cameron's life in the first episode.

In Lighting's ending Cameron was given proper character development outside the obvious "Oh he isn't a weak helpless but intelligent bubble boy anymore now he is strong :)" BS he got in his own ending. In Lightning's ending he learned a much more valuable lesson that winning isn't everything, and accepted his fate. And Lighting managed to avoid disappointing his father, and got to live out his dream of opening his own football stadium.