User blog comment:Rhonda the stalker fan!/Total Drama 30 Day Challenge: Day 20/@comment-1441098-20180720205333

Least favorite character is easily Zoey. I know consensus is that Mike is worse than her, but here’s my thing - sure, Mike was a poorly-written mess. Labeling a character “The Multiple Personality Disorder” is one of the most questionable decisions made by writers known for questionable decisions, and there’s no way he was ever going to be a good character.

But Zoey was just like... so, so poorly written that it made me angry. She’s pretty much every negative cliche of a female love interest rolled up into one character - with the writers telling rather than showing the audience she’s an “Indie Chick” and giving her like 2 throwaway lines about being lonely but not fleshing her out any further other than via her relationship with a guy. She’ll moan about not having friends but then instantly call people like Dawn weird and go back to obsessing over Mike, and then her whole “commando” turn was just... completely out of nowhere and unrelated to everything about her. That, plus the entirety of her TDAS run ft. 828181929 challenge wins, just felt like the writers were shilling her and telling the audience “Look how awesome Zoey is!!!!” but not actually giving us any reasons why, like the fact that she’s a pretty girl with a relationship with ~The Fan Favorite~ was enough. Every aspect of her personality (or lack thereof) was just lazy, nonsensical, and cringey.