Thread:Fire Eater/@comment-24152851-20141126042007/@comment-1037137-20141209025644

I expanded upon that entry which I originally wrote as merely a one-liner, but the explanation was necessary to add.

Fair enough, it applies more inherently to ROTI than to TDPI, a good chunk of that second cast was considered underwhelming or flat out bad, with the obvious two to three people being by far the most controversial of any featured characters to date. Like I said, Fresh will probably never hear the end of that, so it definitely applies there bigtime. But TDPI still had some notorious duds, I know almost no one like Leonard, Rodney doesn't have many fans, Beardo's got only a small following, and Dave and Sugar both attract enormous amounts of hate. Maybe not Mike level hatred, but still they're up there.

Regardless. I still don't trust him and the criticism he's recently received is pretty justified. The least he can do is not add so much frustrating things with his approach and actually keep the characters consistent and developing. Any good writer would know better. Please forgive my harshness.

I think that praise for Owen is a bit overblown. And I'd have to say it's pretty ridiculous that he's the "mascot". He's one of their weakest characters and to put him in solely for kid appeal alone is just cheap. I know that's how businesses operate, but doesn't mean I have to agree with it. He's 80% fart humor, I'll never get how that still holds any appeal and I'll never get what about him still draws people in. Owen's not an interesting character or a good character, mascot or not. I think the creators need to take a good hard look at just how little there is to him.

Not trying to be mean or aggressive or anything like that here. I'm just a very outspoken critic at times.