Thread:VeryUnknownFan/@comment-24152851-20141021060259/@comment-24152851-20141021231149

Oh. So it's like the group who despises antagonists other than Heather? I think generally younger fans, or new fans to the show will like the nice characters and hate the mean ones, but most eventually come to hate Mike (and Zoey). I feel as though every Anne Maria fan went through that phase you described: hate her because of Snooki and how mean she is, but later like her for how much life her character has.

It just seems shallow to love a character just for being dumb and spitting out funny lines, even Lindsay's a tad overrated, but at least she has more depth than Lightning who we knew nothing about other than his father.

Well I also feel that judging the cast on its own, there is no contest with ROTI, as half of the TDPI cast are so excessively gimmicky, especially the males other than Shawn. In fact, other than my TDPI top 6 (Shawn, Scarlett, Jasmine, Ella, Samey, Sky), I'm not really a fan of any of the others, every other character is either foddery, annoying, or Dave, with maybe Beardo being the only one I'll cut some slack. Though in the season's defence, they did get rid of most of the ridiculous characters quite early (with only Sugar, Topher and Max overstaying their welcome). But I have to agree with those ROTI haters to an extent, that ROTI had too many problems plotwise, and had far more character wrecking than TDPI did (with only Dave getting it hard). So season wise, TDPI might rank a bit higher than ROTI due to giving the important characters mostly solid plot, but cast wise ROTI is the clear winner.