User blog comment:Webkinz Mania/Project 10 - June 2017/@comment-460966-20170601040047/@comment-1396625-20170602191410

@WM That's sort of how I felt when I watched it, though since I didn't watch TDAS until ~2 months after it was finished airing (I didn't even know the season existed until then, as that was during my first 2 year break on the Wiki), I was able to go in with the knowledge that it wasn't a well received season (or episode), so it wasn't the type of momentum killer I'm sure it was for people who watched it the day it aired.

Since I was still active when TDRoTI aired, I'm able to remember how I and others received The Treasure Island of Dr. McLean, partially because at that point many thought it was the first truly bad episode of the series. It felt like inactivity increased significantly after that happened, and I've noticed that episode seems to bother the users who were active around that time a lot more than the users who weren't. That episode might be received better than a lot of TDAS episodes, but for me, I'll always remember it as maybe the worst episode.