Thread:Ttowen/@comment-1037137-20140802192156/@comment-1141831-20140804135259

I feel you on that one, Zoey is one of the characters I REALLY want to like. They just keep making her so inconsistent and make it painful to watch her on screen now. I started to like her again at the beginning of All-Stars...but then we got the Clueless Zoey who spent every confessional wondering about Mike acting odd and making me slam my head into a wall. Mike was still redeemable before All-Stars...but then we got the attempted suicide instead of getting the hell off of the island, him doing literally nothing to justify his finale placement as he was inactive for half of the season, and of course the reset button which stands as the biggest middle finger to mentally disabled people. It's the same thing with Sierra and slightly Alejandro, Sierra was completely derailed in AS; that is why I had to painfully move my favorite girl near my dislike pile...I made the neutral one up just to keep her and Duncan from being hated. Duncan could have been great in AS, he spent the first part helping Gwen, went through a redemption arc, but it all fell flat because they wanted to say "lol nope!" at the very last second. Alejandro was easily the second best antagonist of the series...they could have shown him to have so many more tricks up his sleeve other than charming ladies and his strength, he really isn't all that creative. He walked on his hands for far too long, and although he got revenge on Heather, it was still pretty cheap. The only real hightlight he had in the season was defeating his brother Jose, and that took 30 seconds. Signing an alliance with Mal, that was disbanded at the start of the next episode no less, and the fact that he refused to show anybody else the tape, relying on just warning people who don't trust him, were definitely his lowest. They also made me lower Al.

It would have been semi-justifiable had the two say, you know, worked for it. Zoey spent her time getting immunities because of Mal and Mike was inactive and replaced by Mal. Meanwhile, Scott and Sam worked their asses off in AS, Sam was very noble and willing to go to Bony Island for letting down his team. I honestly thought that at the beginning of the season he would be the underdog for that reason. Scott on the other hand became a lot more sympathetic, and his wanting to be a good boyfriend and gentleman redeemed him quite a bit in my eyes. Plus he actually tried to warn Zoey of Mal, Revenge Scott wouldn't have cared to do that while he was going home. Courtney worked hard as well and I was rooting for her to be in the finale until Sundae....Ugh the worst episode of the series. I finally start liking her again and that happens.

I will continue to try...sadly there are just to many people who blindly accept things the way they are, or worse...actually like them. There are so many people who honestly loved All-Stars AND Action. I don't know how but I've seen those who have AS as their favorite season.

My season ranking, I'll expand upon it when I release it later, goes like this:

World Tour (First Half) Island Pahkitew Revenge World Tour (Second Half) Action All-Stars

I separated World Tour as it is the only season in which such drastic changes happened exactly half way through the season, thus making it possible to rank them differently.