User blog comment:TheAmazingTurtle/Why Pahkitew Island is so great/@comment-26910203-20150821205437/@comment-4742462-20150822025927

And my rankings would be:

1. Island

2. Revenge of the Island

3. World Tour

4. Action

5. All-Stars

6. Pahkitew Island

Action at least had more effort put into it than both halves of Season 5 (if you go by Fresh's dumb logic that All-Stars is 5.1 & Pahkitew Island is 5.2) and has clearly proven overtime to not be the worst anymore, but I'd still put it in the bad category.

And as for some of the other things you mentioned:

Yeah, I'm pretty much convinced that this season wouldn't have been praised as much had it not been for All-Stars coming first. In theory though, All-Stars can make anything that comes after it look good (despite my rankings).

I'm part of those who like Scarlett Fever (one of only three good episodes that season for me), but the ending really does ruin the whole thing. As you pointed out, it's like they wrote themselves into a corner and went "Deus ex machina!" which resulted in something that was an absolute slap in the face that gets way too much of a free pass with how insulting it is.

I'd honestly rather eat my foot before calling Sugar a villain because she was just that bad. She also kept flip-flopping between "Comic relief" and "Villain" which further added to how hard to take seriously she was. The whole villain thing also feels like a last minute decision in order to try and justify how far she'd gotten for no real reason than riding on the coat tails of being a female Owen. And yeah, eliminating Jasmine is so much of a slap to the fact that I can't even... Once again, it's like they wrote themselves into a corner and the only way out was to insult the audience's intelligence once again that season.