User blog comment:Glenn31/Character Appreciation - Week 10: Cameron/@comment-31556666-20170305163930

Cameron is absolutely the most over-exaggeratedly overhated character I've ever come across in this show. The only possible complaint you can make about him in ROTI is that his win is very predictable as his development as a whole. But like... half of the TD storylines are predictable as is, it's not really that overblown terrible like it's made out to be. The hate he gets in AS is also completely and utterly ridiculous. "Cameron was bad in AS." Like yes thank you for the obvious viewpoint but almost everyone did something that was pretty awful during AS, Cameron included. Why should he be getting all the flack and be on par with Mike and Zoey at that?

I spent too long defending Cameron in this comment so I'll just move on to what I like about him and say that in his first season he served the role well of level-headed normal person who had appropriate reactions to the weird things around him, much better executed than Zoey was in this season in that regard. His interactions with Anne Maria, Jo, Lightning, Scott, and even Zoey were all pretty great ones. I don't really mind that he won because honestly nobody else in the merge would've fit anyway. Zoey did some two-faced awful things, Jo, Scott & Lightning are villains, and Mike is Mike. His win is harmless and there's nothing that bad about it.

I'm not saying Cameron is a great character or anything. Several characters served the underdog role better than him and yeah he was pretty awful in AS. But I just feel bad about the hate he gets too. Some people only dislike him because he's friends with Mike and Zoey, which I find a little unjust. People shouldn't be judged by association. Cameron is a nice person, Mike and Zoey are PORTRAYED as nice people (as false it is), so I don't see what's so bad he's friends with them. He shouldn't be an add-on to the hate those two receive because sometimes he gets brought into hate towards them without him really doing anything.

Best Season: Total Drama: Revenge of the Island

Best Episode: Up, Up, And Away In My Pitiful Balloon

Best Moment: Eliminating Jo