User blog comment:ThomasVeggieDramaFan/Pahkitew Island: One Year Later/@comment-25166946-20150629161652/@comment-4742462-20150629195502

To be fair, it's also hated for other reasons such as Dakotazoid, Scott being the worst antagonist by that point, and the overall setting of a radioactive island full of mutated creatures (yet most of these people were perfectly fine with a 100% fake island full of animatronic animals).

Ella is the only truly gimmicky character from this cast that I liked. Scarlett did feel gimmicky in her last episode although I don't really see why Jasmine is gimmicky.

I honestly think it would've been better had we just gotten no male protagonists because I thought it was hard to root for Shawn both due to his gimmick and how he treated his relationship with Jasmine.

The only male character that possibly could've come out of this was Dave. Too bad they plopped him in a horrid plotline that was essentially the writers being so desperate to try something different that they didn't care how abominable the outcome was.