User blog comment:Zoether/Defending TDWT/@comment-10310224-20131102155118/@comment-1037137-20131103013824

They still had roles to play in the episodes they appeared in nonetheless. No they weren't as developed as the others, but they did just enough so that each character was distinct and to varying degrees, memorable. For the most part.

There was no point to a third team if it was gonna be annihilated before the merge. They ought to have mixed up the teams differently so Alejandro could pick off members of every team, rather than doing it team by team.

You say these characters had no room for any development, that's not necessarily true. Just because they weren't developed further in the final product does not mean there was no way they could've done it. What we see in any final product just so happens to be what they decided to do for the final product, it does not mean that there were not other ways to do things differently, and that goes for everything out there, not just Total Drama.