[Epic.]

32. Scott

*featuring me as Lightning not being able to understand a single sha-reason why Scott's been around this long

Now in all fairness I don't dislike Scott. But when I take a look at these NINE other nominees, he's suddenly trash by comparison and I don't know how I as the second last to save/cut was the one to get rid of him. He also should've been out much sooner, much like the other 9 I previously nommed when it was my turn.

This kind of bugs me a little, but Scott's RoTI debut is so swept under the rug nowadays, simply because of his AS portrayal being much better received. I make no reservations about it though; Scott in RoTI was AWFUL! Someone who goes out of their way to lose challenges just to 'give the other team a false sense of security' is not a threatening antagonist! And no amount of melodramatically brash confessionals about how evil you are can change that. Scott as an antagonist borders more on cringey rather than creepy.

And outside of being a poor antagonist, did Scott really have any other merit as a contestant? Heather, Alejandro, Courtney, Sugar, the Ice Dancers and even MAL all still had traits to them apart from being villainous when that role was their's. It makes Scott so bland and uninspiring for me, and him and Mike were the key offenders at ruining RoTI and making it one of my least favourite seasons. The amount of exposure given to Russell Hantz in denim was too much. What makes Scott's bland unlikeability more upsetting is the antagonists RoTI could've had instead of him. Jo or Lightning were much more entertaining as villainous characters than Scott ever was but for some reason he was still favoured and got all the way to the final 4 despite having ****ty strategies and no friends for the entire duration he was there.

He easily would be a bottom 5 character for me, but then AS rolled around and suddenly I and many others were liking him! He was funny, charismatic, and incomprehensibly STUPID, and in a season that was stupid already, he fit right in and was a welcome drab comic relief in an otherwise dreary season. But a decent season to follow on from an utterly abysmal one does not save Scott from this obvious cut, so I'd still say he's a mediocre character that's more of a 60-64 than a bloody 31-35!