User blog comment:VeryUnknownFan/Mike, Zoey, and Anne Maria discussion/@comment-1037137-20140821212351/@comment-1037137-20140821223547

Anne Maria deserves more credit, she was entertaining at times. Heck, she could make a good antagonist given the chance or a good antihero or something. She has her moments in Revenge. If her fandom is that small, then I must say she's a tad underappreciated.

The more and more I reflect on it, Mike has next to nothing about him, and nothing to work with. They give this character so much inflated hype and yet we don't know much about him at all. We really don't. As if his mutual attraction to Zoey is enough to make him worthy of our investment.........No. It does not work that way, you need A LOT more than just that to justify a character's presence. You can't have a character who's whole existence in a season leeches purely off of that of another. And Mal was just a doomed idea from the start. Foolish move to actually go through with that and not even try to make him imposing. And I'm still really frustrated by how even as the main antagonist, NOBODY caught on until it was too late. He doesn't play as an antagonist, he plays as a pure annoyance. If Justin's pathetic, then Mal is just a plain disgrace.

Hopefully all that backlash puts him away for a long while. I am completely opposed to anymore Mike for the foreseeable future. It would be foolish on their part to continue making excuses for how much they forced this zero-note character to the center stage.

TDAS was a perfect chance to expand upon Zoey and answer for some of her flaws in Revenge. Instead, they played up her flaws and yes, godplayed her. Even I call serious bull on how many times she won in that season, nobody has that kind of winning streak in this series. I do still think though that if she were to come back alone, without Mike to interact with, it would help her a lot. And even with the odds acknowledged, I do kind of hope to see that sometime just to see whether that would happen. And tone it down and play her as a normal and developing character with some more hints of her archetype and drop the godplaying completely, that was totally unnecessary. One can hope, but time will tell.

Yes TDPIScarlett, believe it or not, Mike still has a following. I can't explain it either, bro. After TDAS, why anyone would stand up for him is beyond me.