I really hated Erik and then by the end he really was just kind of dumb but good at heart. Like this was kind of the perfect villian origin story.

Same, I hated him at the start for how horrible he was to the illegitimate kids but he went through enough personality transplants that by the end I kind of liked him. But who knows what would have happened next season, this show is the opposite of consistent (except making Ginger the awesomest–we’re lucky we didn’t see HER ruined too).