User blog comment:TheDipDap1234/Sky - a Good or a Bad Character?/@comment-27588345-20150406001448

Ok, I know there was already one big blog post about how much Sky absolutely sucked as a character, but I think I'll give my opinion anyway.

Truth is I never cared for Sky in the first place, not even when we saw the storyboards. And to be honest, out of the final 3, she felt kinda just there. Sugar had her pageant queen schtick and Shawn had his zombie thang, but Sky............felt just there as the season dragged on. Heck you could take her out of episodes 10 and 11 and nothing would change, she's just that irrelevant for those two episodes. Of course, irrelevancy for two episodes doesn't neccesarily equate to a bad character.

However, a character's actions and personality IS what defines them, and Sky is a character of.......really questionable actions. FIRST OF ALL, it's hard for me to like her when all she does is talk about winning, usually characters like her have some sort of rivalry or friendship. Sure Sky had Dave, Ella, Shawn, Sugar, and Jasmine. But Skave was the only interaction involving her, that lasted the whole season. Sky and Ella had some friendship the episode before and of the latter's elimination, however the kicker is, is that said friendship comes out of nowhere, and Sky never defended Ella against Sugar (you could say Dave didn't but he and Shawn did hold Sugar back from beating Ella up in episode 4.). Shawn and Sky had such little interaction between a final 2, that it's not even funny. Sky and Sugar's rivalry only lasts a little over an episode. Sky and Jasmine barely even talk to eachother. SO basically Skave is Sky's only major interaction, which is bad for a finalist, and a (possible?) protagonist. Other than that, all Sky really ever did, was either talk about winning or just act as the only sane person when Dave couldn't play second fiddle to her. UNFORTUNATELY, she's still boring, and really has no point in being in the episodes after Dave's elimination, why? Because after he's gone, all she is is a blank slate with little to no personality, while she did have Sugar, said rival is enemies with everyone, and I find it hard to believe she wouldn't have had the same rivalry with someone else.

SECOND OF ALL, her voice is just.....ugh, it's so.....bland and generic, I don't know how to describe it. And sometimes when she speaks, she sounds so nasally and whiny, it gets annoying after a while.

ALSO, there's her main interaction: Skave. Did I ship Skave? Yes, it was my OTP for the cast WHEN the show aired in Italy. Anyway, Skave is a mess, there I said it. It's a giant paint blotch (not as big as Zoke's) and it's just....there. The main reason Dave developed a crush on Sky, in the first place was because she calmed him down while he was having a panic attack. Kind of sweet in a way, and unlike Zoke, it actually has some sort of basis for it happening. In the next couple of episodes Sky and Dave automatically act even more open and friendly towards eachother, then they did in the first two, where Dave practically acted as if Sky barely existed, because y'know, Leonard.

Honestly this sudden friendliness between the two kinda comes out of nowhere, but not so much on Dave's part than on Sky's. Sky says in the 2nd episode, that she's here to win and not meet boys (the irony is strong in that statement.), however on the next episode Sky's practically crushing on him, and up to this point, the last major interaction between the two comes up with Dave thanking Sky for getting water for the team.....yeah. ANYWAY, let's skip over to episode 5, where Dave interrupts Sky while she's trying to explain the "but", however the "but" itself could've really been anything, it could've been "but I'm trying to focus on the game" or something like that. Who knows if Sky actually planned on telling Dave about Keith? We get no indication of what the "but" actually was, but even when we do hear of it, there's a slight possibility that Dave just assumed that the boyfriend was the "but" and no real confirmation from Sky about it, at all.

Anyway, skipping from that over to episode 8, Sky starts acting like kind of a jerk. Jasmine ultimately wants Sky to focus on the game instead of Dave, I'm not mad at Jasmine as I am at Sky because Jasmine just wanted Sky to keep her mind off of Dave and focus on the game. The bullhorn incident comes to mind when it comes to Sky's jerkishness, basically Dave tries to help Sky, Jasmine tells her not to be fooled by him, Sky throws bullhorn in his direction, betraying Dave, even though JASMINE never said "Throw the bullhorn at him, Sky!" Basically, I started to kind of dislike Sky after this...but then came episode 9:

BASICALLY, Sky acts like a bigger jerk than before, treats Dave like absolute s*** causing him to eliminate himself for her, because even though Sky treated him like absolute dog poop, DAVE STILL LOVES HER! Which to be honest, Dave really should have given up on her and gotten Ella, but it's his decision, just saying it would've cause a lot less emotional trauma on his part. Basically, after Dave acts a teensy bit cocky towards her, SKY yells at him in front of everyone, humiliating him and making him cry. Now, she didn't need to do this, she could've just pulled him away from the others and talked to him in private. The way she did it in canon, was cruel, and honestly I'm surprised anyone sympathized with Sky at that particular moment. And when Dave gets angry at her and asks her why they can't date, SKY REFUSES to tell him anything, leaving the poor guy heartbroken, and says "No" to him. And on the contrary to those of you saying Dave stalked Sky, this was the last time they interacted excepting the former's elimination! Also, Sky escaped elimination only because the guy still cared about her despite what happened previously.

Anyway, on to the finale....oh whoopy, basically SKY manipulates Dave to do her bidding by kissing him and asking him out on a date, well ok it's to make him cooperate. Anyway, Dave becomes bald, and figures out about Keith. AND TO BE HONEST, why didn't Sky ever try telling him earlier than this, like you know, EPISODE 9?! This pisses me off, never mind the fact that Sky nearly kissed him, flirted with him, asked him out on a date, and EVEN ADMITTED TO LIKING HIM ONCE! I don't know about this, but doesn't cheating on your boyfriend, kind of, you know, make you look reaaaally bad? And as for Poor Dave, who in his last two episodes can't catch a break, he ends up reacting as anyone would after figuring out that their mutual crush had a significant other. With pain, sadness, anger, and confusion, although only the anger part is ever really demonstrated (but pain and confusion is kind of implied, and well sadness...anyone's going to feel sad after that.), but considering what he just went through, can you blame him?

And what's Dave's fate? To be eaten or mauled by a bear, but enough about my favorite TDPI male, back to Sky. Basically Sky not only acts like a jerk, she throws a temper tantrum too, when she and Shawn are stuck on a cliff that Dave purposely rose up so they both wouldn't win. HOWEVER, unlike Shawn, Sky acts like a sore loser, and causes the cliff to collapse, threatening both their lives. And her ending is soooo boring and has such little differences, that it's practically forgettable, and the only difference is her holding the briefcase. Sky had such little to like about her here that it's hard to root for her at all.

How does this relate to Sky being a questionable character? Although Sky seems like a nice person, the things she does make her look out to be a b**** and rather unlikable. And no, I don't dislike Sky, but I do think that next season she needs serious redemption!