User blog comment:TDWTisAWESOME/TDWT Love Triangle. Why all the Hate?/@comment-1037137-20150310191044

Personally, I really dislike the "It's called Total Drama" defense. It isn't an excuse when derailment is involved. And that's exactly what this was to the three people involved. I DID use to enjoy Duncan, but he never got any real comeuppance for his actions here, and Gwen and Courtney were both enjoyable again until this blew up, and just made both hateworthy to different extents. It was a further degradation of Gwen's character and it unraveled Courtney's comeback after her more infamous role in TDA. It was a deliberate and overblown distraction from everything else in the season, and I do not believe it was required to stir things up further, any drama that involves an outright degradation of one or more characters just to satisfy a plot has no business being part of the script in my book. And they have yet to make any honest-to-God effort to make up for the destructive outcome of that triangle. We're still flailing about with the three characters worst derailed by this, the writers don't have a clue or a care who they are or how to write them. It was viciously unpleasant and got in the way of everything, with other characters suffering for it as they got cast out to pave the way for Duncan's really unnecessary return. Alejandro was the villain and even if Duncan's presence and Gwen and Courtney's respective crusades against the other didn't unseat him from the role, you didn't need Duncan who already got a TON of screentime coming back solely for the purpose of setting off this powder keg. He became instantly hateworthy and stole the focus and spotlight of the season. By the time all of them were gone, the damage was done and it pretty much broke the fandom in half over it. Bitter debates still rage over this thing even after it is (Supposedly) dead now. Made worse in hindsight by the continued popularity of Gwent and Duncney ( I don't support the latter anymore ) and how eager they were to kill Gwuncan in TDAS, so what did we waste all that time for? Two seasons of this triangle BS and now I'm left to wonder why we had to suffer for it.

This season became enormously frustrating and unpleasant for this overblown mess and under no circumstances do I tolerate character derailment of any kind just to satisfy detracting plotlines like this. We could've used the break from Duncan and we could've given the girls the room needed to rebound from TDA which did neither any favors, as well as not letting other returning competitors be overshadowed in what should've been their time to shine, NOT Duncan's, the fourth place finalist and winner of TDI and TDA. And the reason it all happened was because of an order handed out by Teletoon's higher-ups. In other words, this was all the executives' doing, and it's not their place to pretend they are screenwriters.

I have nothing nice to say about this triangle and I think World Tour suffered heavily for it. It was not a necessary turn of events by any means, and it's when the show really became that much more difficult to watch.