User blog comment:ChunkyChipackers/The Total Drama Contestants - Worst to Best/@comment-3003440-20140730153008/@comment-24152851-20140801002349

@Epic, I never said "you find no reason", I said Cameron haters keep inventing new reasons just for the sake of hating him. Why I say this, because unlike Mike and Zoey who have clear-cut, fixed reasons for their hatred.

People keep throwing out new reasons to hate Cameron, with a lot of them conflicting with each other. Here's an example just from this thread: David said Jo "carried" Cameron through the challenges and was the reason they won, but Epic just said Cameron was "usually the underdog" of his team who "wins a challenge for their team in an unpredictable way". But wait a second, didn't David just say Jo did everything for Cameron? Contradictory much?

As for Cameron having a terrible design and voice. I suppose you think Harold's a supermodel with a voice of an angel? There are plenty of characters with worse voices than him: Ezekiel, Staci, Eva, and you’re beloved Scott who has the most annoying laugh.

If you hate Cameron for being unoriginal and uncreative, does that mean if Cameron came first and Harold came second, then you would hate Harold?

I love Harold as well, and he was memorable. But Cameron was just given a different approach. They were focused on developing him, from a flawed bubble boy who got picked on, to finally standing up for himself in the finale. It was done nowhere near to the extent of Harold, yes he did develop in TDA and stood up to Duncan (which if you ask me punching a hole through a punchbag is sort of godplaying), it wasn't the predominant focus of a season, it occurred over the space of a few episodes. Cameron had a gradual development over the whole course of ROTI.

Scarlett being a copy of Cameron isn't my words, that's from the re:fresh blogs where they said "She is almost like a female version of Cameron (minus the bubble)!"

You can hate a character if you want that's your choice, I just don't tolerate the incessant, unreasonable bashing of a character just for the sake of bashing him. He's not the greatest character ever, but he certainly doesn't deserve hate to the levels of Mike and Zoey.

@David, Jo might have made herself in charge of the team, but she had little influence over most of the wins. If you watch all the episodes prior to her switching teams with Scott, a good half of the time the Toxic Rats have a clear advantage over the Maggots (Ice-Ice Baby, Backstabbers Ahoy) with Jo struggling to keep the team from losing, then along comes Scott who sabotages his team and gives the Maggots the win. It would be more accurate to say Scott carried Cameron than it would be for Jo. Cameron would have used his brains regardless (like he did in TDAS when he fired the leech slingshot, or in Eat Puke where he used his watch to disable the collars) and are you forgetting "Up up and away in my pitiful balloon" where it was Cameron who carried Jo to the end of the challenge (before betraying her) not the other way round. Jo couldn't even get past the first phase of the challenge (building a flying machine) if Cameron wasn't there and she probably would've been disqualified. You're saying if bossy jockette Jo wasn't there then Cameron wouldn't be able to function at all? Since when was a ruthless leader required for a nerd to be able to do anything? Harold, Cody and Scarlett have all shown to be able to use their intelligence on their own, Cameron is no exception. He can't help using his intelligence all the time, and would display it regardless of whether someone was forcing him to or not.

I am a very dedicated Marvel fan and have both watched the movies and have done a lot of reading up on that. Well for starters, if you're going to give me that "realism" rant, building an even building an Iron Man suit isn't realistic at all to begin with (even the one in the film), so don't be giving me that crap that Tony's is so much more realistic than Cameron's. The technology his suit displays is 20 years ahead of it's time. As to why it's made out of garbage. Might I remind you what the original Iron Man Suit was made out of, let's ask Obadiah Stane.

Obadiah Stane: "Tony Stark built that in a CAVE, with a BOX OF SCRAPS."

While Cameron built it in in a CAMP, with a pile of scraps.

As to his intelligence, have you ever looked into real-life bubble children. They spend their whole life in bubbles so they have nothing to do except for one repetitive task they become obsessed with. Fairly common cases are a bubble child will play video games, and will suddenly rank to top levels in the world. Well Cameron chose to read, and spending 16 years of non-stop reading he would have accumulated a lot of knowledge. Don't tell me a child could never do that, I have come across many cases of child prodigies doing amazing things. I've even heard of a boy once building a working nuclear reactor in his house. Cameron's intelligence could clearly make him capable of such a feat.

Your only justification is the amount of time he spent. Firstly I'd like to point out, Cameron didn't even make an arc-reactor, he powered his suit using a toxic marshmallow. All he needed to do was build rocket thrusters and a energy blaster, and assuming this is the same junk pile from a few episodes ago (where you can find a plane engine just lying around), Cameron probably already had all that stuff lying there. He didn't make it from scratch, he just repaired it. Ever heard of a show called "Scrap Heap Challenge" where teams take discarded broken appliances and make them into functional machines, ranging from within a day to a few hours (depending on what they're building), that's the same idea here. Secondly Cameron's suit is nowhere near as advanced as Tony Stark's suit. It has an AI housed inside, and can fire missiles. Cameron's can only fly and fire a bolt of energy. Before you bring up the magnetic pulse thing he could've made that using his watch.

Cameron did use practical applications of science (such as calculating the angle of the shot, and the EMP watch), that was just the peak of his intelligence. You think I’m just some dumb highschool kid and your science claim is so much more credible, well I major in science!

Yeah those similarities you just listed are typical of the nerd stereotype. Of course almost every nerd is gonna be scrawny, picked on and socially awkward, just like for the jock stereotype Tyler and Lightning are muscled and stupid. Duncan and Harold’s bullying was completely different to Cam and Jo's. Duncan tormented Harold for his amusement, while Jo viewed Cameron as being lower than her and kept on using him. It would be more accurate to compare them to Beth and Courtney (who used Beth in a similar manner). Capable of doing bad? Almost every hero has gone through that at some phase (Owen pushing Izzy into the slasher, Gwen and the whole boyfriend kissing, Cody wishing Sierra would die for half the duration of TDWT). The point is though Harold and Cameron are representative of two spectrums of the nerd stereotype, Harold's the physically talented geek who likes to show-off, while Cameron's the introverted nerd who keeps to himself and lets all the more powerful characters have conflicts while he watches it out.

As I have already explained, Cameron has had tones of practical applications of science, and the super armor is the one exception. But I have already gone into that above. Most of you saying Harold’s applications are more practical is just personal bias. And for the record Cameron’s character was about overcoming bullies throughout the season, Harold only had that plot for three episodes in TDA. His character was more focused on using his skills to earn his team’s respect, and trying to win over the girl he loved. For the most of the series he did nothing to try stand up to the bullies (he only did so in TDI when he eliminated Courtney and the finale 2 episodes before his elimination in TDA).

Unlike the Mike and Zoey hate-base, each Cameron hater keeps coming up with they're own set of reasons, and they don't correlate with those of other haters. That's my problem with you lot. You bash a character for the sake of bashing him.