User blog comment:ChunkyChipackers/The Total Drama Contestants - Worst to Best/@comment-3003440-20140730153008/@comment-24152851-20140731013715

You hit the nail perfectly, everyone will excuse any damage done to their character in TDAS, by saying the season derailed them. But if it's a character they don't like, they just say what they did in TDAS was always what their character was like.