User blog:Tomas T/Top 5 worst TDROTI eliminations

After long wait this is the time for the 4th part of my "top 5 worst elimination" and of course it will be about the 4th season "Revenge of the island"

The eliminations usually have two aspect: the writing aspect and the story aspect

While the writing was pretty decent (most of the time) the story aspect was pretty bad. My problems with the eliminaions was more the way the writers told the story instead of "how dumb the elimination was"

Expample for elimination that was fine from the story aspect but bad from the writing aspect was the elimination of Leshawna in TDA. For the story telling aspect, it was fine because her elimination set Justin, Courtney and Duncan as the 3 antagonists of the season (yes i see Duncan as antagonist of the season and nothing will change my mind). And of course that eliminating her will give more screentime for other people who did not merged in TDI. But it was awful from the writing aspect. I mean Harold vote for the love of his life to save his nemesis just because the girlfriend of his nemesis told him to? it was bad!

This season there was some kind of sense in the elimination (most of them) but it doesnt mean i was pleased. Becasue i really dislkie the way the writers wanted to tell the story. So most of the eliminations here will be focused more on the story instead of the writing (unlike the former 3 blogs)

Toxic Rats were robbed in episode 1
Before i will talk about the eliminaions i really want to point thing out and talk about subject that not everyone talking about. In episode 1 Chris declared that the MM won the challange even though they did not. Chris said that the first team who will stop the bomb will win. this is was TR did: stopped the bomb. But Chris disqualilef their winning because MM faild and ruied the spa hotel. The reasul was the same as "I see London" where Staci eliminated. The reason i won't put Staci on the list or even on the dishonorable mention because she deserved to go because she was annoying. But Staci and the other rars were robbed and i think that someone should talk about it.

Ok people let move to the dishonorbale mention.

Dishonorbale Mention

 * Sam - Out of all the rats in this episode, Sam was the most usefull. He almost won the challange for the team. And he barly got any credit for this. It was pretty bad that in a team of four guys, only the three hotter guys with abs (in the cased of Lightning and Brick at least) who failed the challanged stayed while the geek guy who is overweight a little was eliminated even thoug he was useful the most. Actully Brick came with the idea with the fashin bomb that drove Sasquatchanakwa crazy. But in the end of the day, the three hot guys stayed and the less attracive dude was eliminated.
 * Dakota (2nd) - hate this elimination for one reason: turned into mutant. Thats it. Dakota turning mutant was the worst thing that ever happened in the history of total drama.
 * Scott - He was horrible person this season and i really disliked him. While he really had some good moment, his strategy made no sense (and still it worked). And he deserve to go. So why he is here? becasue his karma was too much. He brock almost all the bones in his body, a toxic marshmallow melted into his leg, a mutant shark mutilated him and he became paralyzed in the finale and nobody felt any sympathy for him (even Dawn or Zoey). Yes he is antagonist and almost every antagonist suffer from injuries. I can see the point when thing like this happened to villians like Alejandro or Heather. But Scott? its not like he went to killing spree of eliminations (like Alejandro). In total he elimianted only four people. Nine people eliminated before him, one of them twice (Dakota) so in total, out of 10 eliminations, Scott cause only four (B, Dawn, Dakota's 2nd and Mike). Scott's became paralyzed was too much and I really fall bad for him.

5. Anne Maria
The most random elimination in the entire TD history. More random than Leshawna in TDI. From nowhere the writers came with the idea of the diamond. Why this happened? They eliminated Anne Maria just to make exuse for Dakota to return to the game and become mutant? I mean, Anne Maria was integral for Zoke main drama. And from nowehre the writers came with this weird and random way to eliminate her. Just to bring Dakota back and eliminate her immediately. Anne Maria's quitting made her one of the only three TD contestants with zero votes againts them (the other two are Shawn and Sugar) and she is the only TD contestant who never voted for anyone. The eliminated was somehow fair a little bit (she changed her mind but Chris did not let her get off the catapult) but it was bad from writing aspect (keep in mide that i can see elimination as bad even if it was fair. not every bad elimination is unfair elimination).

How I would write the elimination: Not eliminationg her in episode 7. Keeping her to episode 8. Instad of Dakota turning to mutant (thing that 95% of the fans hated to see) the episode will focus more on the love triangle. Scott convinced Anne Maria to keep on flirting with Mike thing that annoyed Zoey. In the elimination ceramony, Scott and Zoey vote for Anne Maria. Cameron and Mike vote for Scott and Anne Maria vote for Zoey. Scott uses his chris head statue to avoide tie breacker and eliminationg Anne Maria. Thats it. Not stupid diamond, Not Zeke fall in love with Anne Maria, no Dakotazoid. Just regular episode. and at least this way will give a little breack from getting ride of the females so fast. Brick eliminated after Sam is the only point in the season when two males eliminated in a row. and still Anne Maria quited with Brick so we still have no two episodes in a row with zero female eliminations.

4. Zoey
Sometimes screenhoggers got bad elimination as well. "She Duncan"... oops i mean Zoey got pretty bad one as well. You see, Zoey was pretty fine in season 4. Not great but she was fine. After Mike elimination she became really likebale in my eyes and I could see her as finalist. And than she was eliminated. There are two main reasons why i hate this:

1. All male finale. if there was all female finale in TDAS/TDPI/TDRR i would skip this. But there wasnt so i wont. I mean this season had really poor treatment towrod the female characters. All of them (with the exeption of Zoey and Jo) were fodder. And if we excluding B (who never talks) the four character with the least lines are the four female who eliminated before the merge. Bringing a girl to the finale is the least decent thing the writers could do after the most unbalanced season.

2. Zoey was robbed and once again a someone floated his way to the finale (because Owen, Beth and Duncan weren't enough). Zoey herself sain in her last conffesion: "Just me or im doing everything while Cameron is a mutant bait". First it was Mike, Than Lightning and Now Zoey. Cameron is maybe one of the biggest floaters in the entire TD history.

How I would write the elimination: Two ways:

1. Not eliminating her. Zoey vs Lightning finale (this way she wont be finalist in TDAS and we could get better finale two).

2. Brick vs Jo in the finale so they can eliminate Zoey whenever they want.

3. Brick
This elimination is pure example for elimination that I hate more from the story telling aspect instead of the writing aspect. Brick was true her in the episode. He saved three people lives. He sacraficed himself to save them. So his prize is to be eliminated? Jo could easily dump Ligthgning and make alliance with Brick. Brick was true hero of the season and I was rooting for him from the begining. After the eliminations of B, Dawn and Sam, this elimination made me loos more hope for the season (the hope died after the elimination of the person whi will be number one on the list). And add insult to injury, he was crushed by Anne Maria. Am I the only one who find it funny that Brick never said a word when it happened and he was with the same face expression all the time and only moved his eyes?

How I would write the elimination: simple: not writing it. just scrap the idea of Cameron vs Lightning and replace it with Brick vs Jo finale.

2. Dawn
I really want to know, If you though Dawn is going to be number one and it suprised you she is not, pleas leave a comment :)

So the issue with Dawn is the fact she was eliminated so early. Why the creators created so weird (in good way) and special character just to eliminate her already in the 5th episode? to me it seems they gave too much though for early boot (thing that will happened again in TDPI). She was so special, so intresting, so cute and creepy. She wanted to use the money for good (and importent) reason. But the creators just backstabbed her and her fans. I mean who would do such thing to Luna Lovegood?

another reason that it was pretty unfair and weird how everyone immediately belived Scott. Scott was bad actor it was obvious it all was staged and he framed her. And to add insult to injury, she was stuffed into garbage bad.

Moreover, her elimination really showes us what the writers though about the females this season. She was eliminated in the 5th episode, eitght episodes before the finale. It wasnt even the halfway point of the season and they already got ride from half of the girls while only one guy left: B, who never talked and since the males were in an advantage of 7 compers to the girls with 6, B felt more like an extra instead of real contestant. You can call me femenist, you can call me SJW, call me whaever you want, but a lots of people felt the gender imbalance in this season.

How I would write the elimination: The hate and the tenstion between her and Scott could be great way for storyline for both of them so keeping her at least for the merge (or one episode before the merge) would be nice. Or bring some twist. While it seems Dawn is going home, Chris declare Scott is eliminated. After his eliminatiom Jo become the main antagonist for the rest of the season. Thig that lead us to Brick vs Jo finale.

Oh... speaking of Jo...

1. Jo
Wow... I really dont want to sound like snob, but I think saying Jo's elimination was bad it pretty original opinion. I saw only two people besides me who hate this elimination. And one of them is here on the wiki. He told me that Jo is amazing and he lost hope after she was eliminated. If you read my old post about "best and worst elimination from each season" Jo was the best elimination there. But I rewatch the season, some opinions were changed. And now I see it as the wost elimination.

Jo (to me at least) was the best player of the season. She was eliminated due one mistake (backstabbing Lightning and bully Cameron into allience). It was horrible to see such amazing game player fail this way. Out all of the merger, she deserve to be finalist the most. Mike (with all the irony) had zero personality, Cameron is floater, Zoey was damsle in distress, Scott had weird strategy (that worked. But still weird) and Lightning was fine but I could see him in the finale vs Jo. But Jo, she had amazing game. She did good in challanges, she knew how to control her team. Lets face it: even though the mumant maggots were the better team this season, they werent 100% on focus. Anne Maria cared most of the time about Vito or her look. Zoke just could not stop flirting with each other, Cameron was lame and Brick was pain magnet. Jo is the only one who was 100% focus on the game. And when the other's mind was distracted, Jo knew how to snap them out of it. She was pretty much the puppet master of the season.

Yes she was unsympathic person but she was so much into the game, and compers to other TD antagonist she was one of the least harmful. So out of all the mergers, she deserve to win the most.

but then, in her last two episode the writers just dumbed her down (much like it will happened to Heather in TDAS). Backstabbing her sole alliance and bully someone to form an alliance with her just to be backstabbed. Yes I know karma is a... you know. But to see her loose because of Cameron was horrible. After her elimination, I lost hope in the season. The best player left. Yes I know that most of the time the antagonist are good players but when they are taken down, the people who eliminated them were great players as well. But Jo eliminated by Cameron who was lame.

How I would write the elimination: not writing it. Let her make it to the finale along with Brick.

So This is was my list. I hope you enjoyed reading it and I hope I wasnt controversial to much (with my radical though about Cameron and all the gender debates) See you in my next post :)