User blog comment:TDWTisAWESOME/TDWT Love Triangle. Why all the Hate?/@comment-1037137-20150310191044/@comment-1037137-20150311024408

The broadcasters have had way too much creative input, and Fresh is being held hostage to it. Fresh is not blameless, it's their writers who put together most of what we see, but some of the worst ideas seen onscreen or the ones to cause the worst disputes are not all of their design, it is in fact partly Teletoon and CN's faults as we both have acknowledged. They shouldn't have to be held to all of these demands, especially the ones that have only backfired and stripped away more of what made the show special. Not even their freaking theme song is safe, cut down from a full minute to twenty seconds because CN feels the kids can't sit still for a full minute. Yeah, listen to "I Wanna Be Famous" again and you'll probably be saying BS to that logic too. And who knows how much of what blew up in TDAS was their suggestions? For all we know they could be responsible for a lot of what we saw implode. Lord only knows, but at this point I say they should back off and leave the crew to do what they have been entrusted with while they themselves stick to their jobs instead of trying to do someone else's.

Fair enough, I was just using them as another example in the discussion as to why the whole "young love" message had already been fulfilled elsewhere well before this dreck came on.

Yeah, nobody is looking to Total Drama for moral guidance, especially not in the wake of these things and after the reset button debacle, they have no right to even suggest they are in a position to be instilling that. Whoever's responsible for the crap we keep seeing in this, bottom line is that messages like these are going to be inevitably lost in all the nonsense they pull regularly, so they shouldn't BS us like this. TDI was the only season where things were ever that "clean", when something like that would not be lost in the context of all the insanity and zaniness that was ongoing at the time.

Duncan's ties to their plots definitely had that effect on them in part. I don't like how he's so intertwined with them, as it has been abused astronomically, and now all three of them are a horrific mess. I never got his ridiculous popularity in the wake of crap like that even after all of this time. I always hated how he dodged karma too. Sucks because again I did not always hate him. But I'm never going to make excuses for something that has had this kind of a damaging impact, and so I have not. They simply went too far with a lot of his usual routines. He needs to be downplayed, I wish he had been downplayed in TDWT, I was all for him not being around in the season as he had already won. And I didn't even hate him yet at that point. It was only after his return I became completely fed up.

Scott's coming back for sure eventually. Whether he hits screenhogger status or not remains to be seen. If he does, I'd like to see something productive done with his character, something that is sadly rare among the screenhoggers owing to how badly they are often written now. Sky is a new character in a new cast who is very likely to come back eventually. She and the rest of the likely returnees of that cast are now wide open for derailment. Be very afraid.