User blog comment:DerpyandDawn/Character Opinions/@comment-1037137-20150314152504/@comment-1037137-20150314154338

In the most inept and the most thoughtless maner imaginable. They did nothing right or even showed respect for everyone else watching in their need to play her up for that one side. Some care and intelligence needs to be applied no matter what you're writing.

And he may have a very sound theory in that one, I would've liked to see her more without Mike around as a factor. Because it's her incessant and obnoxious connection to him that laid the mantle down for most of the rest of her problems. I cannot guarantee she would've been a great character by herself if Mike were never present, but it's pretty obvious that he's holding her back at least in part. And it destroyed what little credibilty she still clung to in TDAS.

I can still sort of enjoy her in some fanon, but as far as the canon goes, she's a bad character. She probably needs to stay away for a good long while.

This is the sort of price paid when you only focus on one side of your audience and neglect the rest..........And worse, don't consider any of the faults or implications in how you choose to write a character you are hellbent on keeping central in the spotlight, which is probably not something you should ever be doing. It's obvious what kind of insane bias motivated most of what they were doing with Zoey.