User blog comment:Fire Eater/Call to Save Total Drama/@comment-23587492-20131203155526/@comment-1037137-20131203234748

Focusing more on the conflicts and far far less on friendships, every tension or drama resulting in a war rather than a reconciliation, negating positive character development, inconsistent portrayals courtesy of people like Ed MacDonald who have them acting in a manner that attributes to major mood whiplash with our without the needed buildup, keeping conflicts stemming from years ago going, constantly pitting the same characters against each other in the same old heated rivalries, making characters act OOC to justify a conflict (Ahem, the love triangle for instance), taking likable characters and turning them into jerks, that sort of thing. The show had a perfect balance between friendships, relationships, and conflicts in TDI. Again, that's lacking now. Trust me, it's there, and I'm happy to go into more detail when I have a moment to myself to go in-depth.

Look, that wasn't my only problem with TDA. But it still happened even as we try to forget it did. Besides, my grudge against the other seasons is much bigger than mine towards TDA, okay?

It's not a petty reason though, TDA's challenges sucked. As one friend describes to me, it felt more like a game show than a reality show competition. A cheap one at that. The challenges play a big part in supplying the show's thrills, plots, etc. And TDA's sucked, okay? So did some in TDAS.

It's not nonsense that the studios at partly to blame, even as us fans are to blame too. That's one count we both deserve blame on.