User blog comment:Fire Eater/Call to Save Total Drama/@comment-4758157-20140115103133/@comment-1037137-20140116035847

^^So what, you endorse the hatefulness of TDWT, is that it? I'm sorry, but I cannot sympathize with that opinion. It was crass and it was wrong, and it was character derailment at its worst. I will not pretend I understand why something like that gets a pass, the reasons I've heard for the defense of it have not been convincing. And giving it that much leniency does not help address the main problem with this series, and that is character development. It's supremely negative and that's why I've panned the very idea  that they went through with it. Besides it was the work of some backwards executives who don't understand that it's not their place to write for a show, as they are not writers themselves. And it was just one of plenty of things that made that season awful. Again, for all of its defenders, a vocal hatedom for it still exists.

Bottom line, it's not part of the solution, it's part of the problem. Now let's get serious about tackling the problems before these people dish out anymore wrecks from this series.

Well Exusia, you definitely hit upon some of the points as to why it was controversial, and it very much was. Even with all the fans the season apparently still has, even with that it still was a major controversy at the time. A hugely divisive season for many.