User blog comment:TotalDramaFan82498/Is It Bad That I've Liked Every Season?/@comment-1037137-20150306083152/@comment-1037137-20150307204159

Perhaps not. But it could stand to be truer to the spirit of that season, where they really had every element in synch and working off each other brilliantly, where character development and story was treated seriously even as the surrounding drama forged onward, and with a relatively semi-realistic feel even with its occasional over-the-top and cartoony touches thrown in for good measure. There probably won't be another season just like TDI, but I'd appreciate it if they were more serious about keeping it true to what the show was when first introduced, not morphing it into someone else's vision for it that constantly works against that. All towards much shallower ends. It's been contorted into something where their mindset almost seems to be that you can throw whatever random nonsense you can together and expect it to fly without any hitches or drawbacks just because it creates drama, even if that drama has so often proven just straight up stupid, incoherent, or offensive. They've forgotten all the essentials behind the science to Total Drama, and now everything is wildly unbalanced, with a disastrous toll taken on character, plot, and consistency. It's a toxic way of thinking that now dominates so many of its sequels.

TDI promised a lot more than what its followups have delivered. Whether that's by this deliberate distortion of what it was, ineptitude, or just a flat out lack of care in their work. Okay, so we may not see another TDI, but if it were more serious about staying true to what made that so fresh and appealing, maybe it would not be in the state it's in now.