User blog comment:Brielle.winxz/My fav winx/@comment-29197449-20180320011317/@comment-29197449-20180320234414

I know that in the first season, Riven acted cruddy to his squad because he thought his skills were going unappreciated; he basically wanted respect and admiration without having to work for it. By that, I mean that he did little to show respect to his fellow Specialists (especially Timmy) but expected them to respect him. However, he mellows out A LOT from that point, at least with his wanting respect without giving it. His being thrown away by Darcy and realizing his mistakes was just that - him realizing how much of a jerk he's been. After that, he's been working on himself but still obviously had his problems like with how he still wouldn't listen to Musa in S3, leading to her questioning their relationship despite only being with him for what we can assume was one year.

Their relationship drama in S4 did feel real but, to me, that should've been the stopping point for them romantically. I couldn't stand how after Musa realizes that Jason was never romantically invested in her ('cause he was just doing his job) while also somewhat realizing that she was using him as more of an emotionally supportive male stand-in for Riven, she just goes crawling back to him. Crying about him much more over being worried even though he basically told her to trash her dreams just because he was feeling insecure over her male music producer. Yeah, they reconcile and Musa consoling Riven after Nabu's death was a really nice touch (out of everyone on the island, he was the only one who was crying), but I felt like they should've taken a break then. Have them work off each other as friends in S5 with Riven still pining for Musa since he spends the whole season trying to her a gift that shows his full appreciation, while Musa mulls over whether she wants to give him another chance. That way, her suspicions of Kelli would be somewhat more founded (but still pretty ridiculous if you ask me) and, if they didn't hook up by the end of the season, Riven could leave in S6 because he couldn't stand seeing how well Musa was doing with them being friends while he wasn't holding up so well.

The whole S6 thing was the main reason Riven and Musa/Riven fans were angry. They were less mad about them breaking up and Riven being written out of the show and were more upset with how any progress he made was completely trashed just to make both of those things happen.