User blog comment:Smartbook/Forgotten Friendships on Total Drama/@comment-2091662-20150303203628/@comment-1037137-20150304191416

^Well that's why they need to rethink their gameplan. No reason not to have these no matter who you're aiming this thing at, and how they do it doesn't even make any sense. And hey, we're still here, us older fans are still here. To forget that is absurd, not to mention killing off the size of its audience, wouldn't you want to have some of every age group watching if it's proven possible before? I'm sure there were plenty of kids tuning before they decided they "had to" crank up how far they were willing to go to talk down to that one group. They call it a kids' show, which was a distinction that was not entirely true early on as it was hardly a typical kids' show at one time. And other shows on right now or have been on had big success appealing to all sides, while their efforts in appealing to just one has resulted in heavy backdraft for nearly every aspect that suffered along the way. Logically they should be pursuant of all sides if they know it can be done and if it has been done before. And this show had a lot of success with that in the old days. So there's a lot about the present logic that just seems off.

The friendships is an element I'd think you'd want to keep at least some of. It was one of the main things that made earlier seasons interesting to watch, no less than the romances, rivalries, and all that jazz.