User blog comment:Don25/For all who were and / or are still fans of Duncan./@comment-25285054-20171206185151/@comment-25285054-20171207015338

What do you mean it "only destroyed"? It saved world tour! Most people agree the character interaction focused, goofy episodes before that were at least fun but it lacked a central focus, it lacked ''drama. ''It was an arc that not only affected the three characters drastically, but it was something that practically every character could react to and get involved in in some way.

People like to push the idea that it "ruined" every character invovled. Not really? Duncan was doing what he always does, it was just the first time he was put into a directly antagonist, hateable light. Courtney? The plotline both made her sympathetic and allowed the writers to go back to her over the top humor from TDA in a way that made sense for her character and felt less sudden. And Gwen, well yeah she was a self pitying brat, but again, that's what she always did.

It was good for the rest of the cast as well. Tyler and Cody actually had somethign to do for once and Alejandro, Sierra, and Heather suddenly had interactions with characters they were ambivialent to previously in a way that made sense. This previously rather disjoined season suddenly had a core.

Overall I'm not going to say it was one of my favorite plotlines or was even 100% good, but I find it absurd to say that it had a PURELY negative affect on the franchise. It brought new life into a season that could've ended up as forgotten as TDA otherwise.