User blog comment:Smv21/My Total Drama Season Rankings/@comment-4742462-20180516000710/@comment-4742462-20180516043956

It pretty much made a lot of the same mistakes that the last few seasons did:
 * Certain characters lasting too long despite their non-existent development (Rockers, Stepbrothers and Daters/Haters) and/or inconsistently flip-flopping personality wise between episodes (Sisters, mainly EMMA)
 * More interesting characters being booted fairly early (Geniuses & Vegans)
 * Villains that sucked at what they did (Ice Dancers)
 * "Heroes" that felt more like villains (Carrie & MacArthur)
 * Plots that are either hastily concluded (Stepbrothers becoming friends and Brody's crush on MacArthur) or even abandoned completely (Carrie & Ryan's friendship and Nomma/Nemma).
 * Too much focus on the stagnating romance plots, especially in the season's second half (Best Friends/Zoke 2.0 and Daters/Haters) to the point where I have a hard time considering it to be it's own separate series and instead just another season of the original (albeit with a new title).

But thanks to us living in a post-TDAS world, the season somehow mostly gets a free pass whereas it would've been criticized as bad as AS was if the aforementioned never existed.

Still slightly better than PI, but not by much.