[Lostie!]

Originally Posted by Jack_

I actually genuinely wasn't insulting any other forum members, I think the hate is receives is over the top, unjustified and ultimately, pathetic.

There may be some people who dislike him for the way he acts, and that is fine, what I'm addressing here is a collective shift (or rather actually, non shift) in attitudes towards him. The majority of people on this forum on launch night and in the first few days took a disliking towards him because it was assumed (and understandably so) that he would be the Mr Nice Guy that floated through to the final and didn't offer a lot to the show, and would be popular outside of these parts amongst the general public because of it. Then when it transpired that actually that wasn't to be the case, the same majority continued to hate on him. Therefore the poor kid can't win either way can he? Either he plays the nice guy we all assumed he would be and he'd be hated, or he acts normally as he is doing now and he's still hated. Quite frankly I think the only reason for that is for the most part because he is fat. Sure, not everyone will think that, but I think subconsciously that definitely plays a role or else why could he not win either way?

Fair enough, I assumed you were generalising all people who have an issue with Jack, apologies if I misunderstood.

And you do raise a good point about him being between a rock and a hard place, I do agree that there are some people who were always going to dislike him regardless.