User blog comment:FlynnUsername/Some Alternate Options for Each Seasons' Finalist/@comment-1376932-20170521233728/@comment-4742462-20170523225022

Shawn, like Lightning, isn't exactly finalist material.

It takes guts for somebody to admit that! Though I agree, Shawn always felt like an obvious first boot who somehow became one of the show's most overrated "Protagonists"/finalists.