Thread:Fire Eater/@comment-25184575-20140213190421/@comment-1037137-20140215005353

Again, I think it's more how he's been used rather than the character himself, and most of the problems lie with TDAS, as his struggle felt like a real struggle in TDROTI, whether some will disagree with me or not. It's how he's used, really. And he was used very badly in TDAS, I can't excuse how bad it got with him between Mal and the reset button. And I guess it is a legit fear about what Fresh might do since all fans wanted was for Zeke to have an expanded character only so those jerks could give us a running middle finger for it. I mean, Fresh has a twisted understanding of the situation they've put us and themselves in. And they don't understand the unfortunate implications of at least some of their decisions. That's going to kill them if they don't start taking some responsibility for it.

Well that's no surprise, he already hated Mike and isn't secretive about that. But frankly, I'm not sorry to see Fresh get increased flak for this. They're a company that needs a serious and bracing sucker punch back into reality. We might as well use the momentum to address our overall outrage with the show's worsening direction, as Mike's not the only issue here, there's a lot of ground to be covered if you're going to address Total Drama's failure story from any angle.

I've had less impulse to really see what's been happening here lately and just hanging back a bit.