User blog comment:Rhonda the stalker fan!/I DID IT!/@comment-1874924-20110521144706

I'm a little surprised that you're including Gwen, since you now have three Goths. Maybe they'll for a Goth Posse or something?

The main reason I didn't vote for which old characters should return is that I'm more concerned with how well a given character is written. For example, Gwen (Season 1 Gwen, anyway) is my favorite, and I like (Seasons 1 & 3) Courtney well enough, but I wouldn't have wanted either to be in TDA if I'd known what the Season 2 writers were going to do to their characterizations. In my own competition story, how well I like a given character actually has little bearing on how far that character will go. The alignment with which characters are popular in the fandom is somewhat closer, but that's more a function of elimination order following storylines than of any attempt to favor popular characters.

In any case, I'm looking forward to your story.