User blog comment:CamperThirteen/In Defense of Courtney, Part I/@comment-1682821-20091231212409

Courtney's being bossy and obnoxious is a large part of why I do like Courtney! So she's not perfect... funny how a lot of these same people love Duncan, though, as if he were anywhere close to perfect....

Total Drama Action had a lot of characters coming out badly... poor, poor Trent.

If anything, me liking Duncan because of Courtney is more accurate than liking Courtney because of Duncan. Her liking Duncan certainly isn't what first drew me to her.

Ezekiel, along with Tyler, never really had a strong personality. Most of Ezekiel's fans seem to love fanon Ezekiel. Which isn't necessarily bad, except when he's confused with canon Ezekiel, who really hasn't done very much, aside from making sexist comments. Why should the other contestants have had to put up with him?

I mean, if we went that route, we could say "but Eva stayed awake the second longest on her team! All she did was make all the other contestants fear for their lives!" A lot of eliminations in the real Survivor have to do with getting rid of people they don't like as opposed to pure strategy, anyway: why shouldn't it happen here, too?

I find it funny how DJ never pops up in the "should've been eliminated first" argument. I mean, if you're going to say Courtney should've gone first because she didn't jump, couldn't you just as easily say it should've been DJ instead? He didn't exactly jump either.

Sprinklemist: I actually see it as Sadie having done less. The problem is, before Katie was kicked off, they were pretty much neck and neck (though not completely, and I ought to write about those differences at some point). Then Katie was kicked off, and Sadie did... almost absolutely nothing. Sadie had very little personality without Katie around. Katie without Sadie, on the other hand, we haven't really seen, and as such, I believe there's more potential in that direction.

Tdiandrockmusic2: I largely suspect that Katie, Sadie, Eva, Justin, and Harold don't get as much hate because they're not as popular in the first place. Some people definitely hate Katie and Sadie, but since very few people give them much praise, they don't feel a need to "spread the message of hate" toward them. Courtney has a large and vocal fanbase, though, and Courtney haters feel more threatened than Katie and Sadie haters, and as such, feel more of a need to spread the word and I'm guessing convince others to change their views on Courtney.