Thread:Fire Eater/@comment-24152851-20141126042007/@comment-1037137-20141217182917

No problem, man. I know how it is.

That's fair enough, and that's good policy man. Too bad there are so many OOC moments for so much of the cast to have to work around and struggle to put up with. Still the most critical problem with the series, it should not be happening this frequently with one show. But I really appreciate your unbiased means of viewing everything that unfolds here, seems to lend you a pretty clear perspective of all the goings on in this series. That being said, in Cameron's case, even if you count those as actual purposes, they were definitely terrible, and really worked against his character badly, and seeing how he's arguably the least hated member of the Trio, that was an especially unfortunate blow against Cameron. Still, if you took Cameron out of the season entirely, not only would it spare him from the damage he sustained as a character, but it would also not affect much in this season at all. Sierra would pass off her obsession to somebody else (Which in itself was an equally atrocious flanderization of Sierra) and we would never have had those fakeouts with Cameron. Him joining the Vultures and Mal trying and failing to eliminate him both amounted to virtually nothing at all. They didn't add any new drama or substance to the story, they just sort of happened and then were just as quickly forgotten and disregarded. So it was even less effective than Al's crusade against Owen as an actual, relevant plot point.

Yeah, Scott had no purpose, and I'm sure I don't even need to get back into why. I don't get why we are still swooning over him and Lightning, but I digress.

Thanks, because I can't stand the guy, LOL. And I didn't feel bad to see him go second in All-Stars. I felt that that was an early elimination that was way overdue. Yeah, you've summed it up perfectly, he can get a laugh out of us sometimes but in essence, he really has no character, and even less of a story, which probably should land him as Demoted to Extra on TVTropes since they seem to play the trope pretty straight 90% of the time. That's essentially all he felt like, an extra. An early boot who for some reason was not booted early.

Well then hopefully you won't be seeing him or his ass again (Is that okay to use here too?) seeing how most people these days write off pre-merge losers as mere fodder now. And Topher lost his chance to usurp the show from Chris so he's pretty damn useless now. But why waste our time getting upset? He was a gimmick, a bland and largely uninteresting one at that. Probably unfair of me to talk since i haven't seen all of TDPI but you know what, whatever. You're pretty much confirming everything I probably did expect from the guy. And I don't much care for seeing the asses on the guys, so he doesn't even have that advantage with me. Hopefully you won't have to put up with much Topher in the future, I think you're in reasonably good shape on that count.

Perhaps not. Unless it's someone like Mal, who failed to prove he had any real part to play in this series and yet is such a blatantly obvious favorite of the staff. That's when it's time to take action. But for someone like Justin, nah.

Though honestly I'd rather have suffered through more Justin than someone like Mal, who actively harmed the progression of the season with his very presence in ways not previously thought possible. Justin didn't help TDA, but at least he wasn't Mal. But that's just me anyway, I do get where you're coming from.