User blog comment:LoganParvatiTD225/Was SMS Courtney's well deserved TDA karma?/@comment-2091662-20150717194743/@comment-25027229-20150717225747

How is it Ed MacDonald's fault? He didn't write the plot himself. The creative team did. The writers just write whatever the team tells them to write and give the scripts back for review. If you can blame anyone for anything in the series, it's the creative team as a whole, not one person who was following orders for a paycheck.