User blog comment:TylerSurvivorFan/What If Ella Received All the Hate?/@comment-25297892-20141017223206/@comment-22535514-20141018141558

You said it so well Tamoti. People actt like the first generation cast had a bunch of characters who decveloped so much, and that really is not the case at all. People tend to foget that they had 78 episodes (pre TDAS) over the 13 episodes the TDROTI and the TDPI cast had (not including TDPI).

TDI had a lot of people that were filler and people who had nothing going on to last so long (DJ, Cody, Owen, Leshawna....kind of, and I am sure I'm missing a few more). TDROTI and TDPI got rid of the fodder earlier than later.

Ella did not even learn that Sugar disliked her, so she did not develop in that sense. She was literaly the bootleg, half developed Snow White from the very beginning to the very end.