User blog comment:YoungEezy27/3rd Alternate Ending?/@comment-3573655-20141006220931/@comment-24971793-20141007123723

Lol,

"Sugar's not a true villain, she didn't do anything besides being a little mean to Ella"

"She hasn't received her karma, she needs to be burned by lava like Al"

-> Realise how these two criticisms contradict each other? She didn't do enough antagonistic actions but you also hate her for not getting the same amount of punishment that other antagonists got. I admit that Sugar did less then the other main antagonists, she walked away without any real enemies. Ella still wants to be her friend and Sky got her "justice". Al, Heather and Scott made enemies and victims of nearly everyone and therefore received a ridiculous amount of karma.

"I'm glad i'm not the only one who thinks she's worse than Mal (at least you're supposed to take him seriously)"

-> That's what makes Sugar a better antagonist then Mal. You where supposed to take Mal serious. Mal was going to be the biggest villain ever, even Duncan was afraid of him. But he turned out to be a bigger joke then Max. An unintended joke, he got huge amounts of build up and zero pay off => bad writing. Sugar is well written, she was a milder antagonist cause she's supposed to be that way. She's just an overly competitive person who likes to play dirty when necessary. It's not personal, it's pageant! Though I admit that her plot with Sky could have been done better, we needed more then 3 episodes. Especially to give Sky's character a bit more substance. Unfortunately the writers decided to focus on our lovely Skave. The Ella conflict would probably also have worked better if Sugar's reasoning was made even more obvious, cause a lot of the TD audience seems to prefer premasticated food. But otherwise I don't think there was much to complain about.

This season didn't need a villain sue like Scott or Al. I think it would have actually suffered from it, especially combined with Amy, Scarlett and Dave who all wanted a shot of villainy as well. Four villains (five if we count Chris) in one 13 episode season. IMO the writers made a good decision by not overdueing Sugar's villainy. Besides if we got more of her you'd probably just be complaining even harder ;)