User blog comment:ThomasVeggieDramaFan/Pahkitew Island: One Year Later/@comment-5221692-20150629033452/@comment-5221692-20150629040049

... Mike's innacurate portrayal of MPD is a VERY legitimate reason to cast shade on TDROTI. TDPI never crossed any lines like that, so I give that season credit where credit is due.

She still acts nothing like them to be honest.

I'd rather have interesting gimmicks that serve multiple purposes on the show than one-note characters that provide little to no NEW, ORIGINAL stories and entertainment. All of TDROTI felt overdone and used up before. Nothing felt new, other than the mutants of course, but I personally didn't care for the toxic theme of the season. That's just my opinion.

TDROTI also felt very slow and sluggish to me for a 13 episode season. TDPI was very fast paced, which was good, since the fast pace gave time for EVERY character to shine in the limelight each episode, even if for a little bit. Not every character had a relevant moment in each episode of TDROTI. Heck, Dawn didn't become relevant until the episode of her elimination. Lightning didn't become relevant until the FINALE.

TDROTI felt like it was just a bunch of one-note characters meant to shout out to certain celebrities or famous people.

Good point on the editing for the toxic spill. They DID fix that. You know what else they should have fixed? Mike.

Say what you will about Pahkitew, but if you firmly believed it was that rushed, then give it some credit for being that great of a season made in such little time. The fact that TDROTI is, in my opinion, not as good as TDPI AND that it took more time to make than TDPI just goes to show that time input doesn't always dictate quality.