User blog comment:Gogogadget831/Every Episode of Total Drama Reviewed: Episode 101 - You Regatta Be Kidding Me/@comment-31556666-20150818133259

I honestly found this episode worse than Moon Madness and one of the worst episodes I found, not just of the season, but of the series. I thought it was so bad that it's in my bottom 5 episodes ever.

I don't know how, but the episode was just as flawed as Moon Madness, yet wasn't even guilty pleasure. For a while I struggled to actually figure out why this is since I sort of enjoyed Moon Madness but I think I eventually figure it out. This episode takes itself much less seriously than Moon Madness. Moon Madness introduced a lot of new twists/storylines and that's what made it funny. It didn't realize how dumb it was.

In this episode, Duncan got eliminated, but for a character who was winning back love, couldn't he have got eliminated in a better manner? The entire arc Duncan had was having the opportunity to become heroic, when he exposes Mal. He was the reason Zoey realised to even question Mike. So for a character with that much importance, couldn't he have got a better send-off? It's bad that it was bothersome enough for Duncan to revert back to his old ways, but what made it worse was just how unfinished Duncan was overall. He never has a showdown with Mal, he never proves that he's heroic, and Gwuncan gets no resolution and remains irritatingly one-sided. I sort of liked Duncan in this season, but had he completed himself,  he really could've been something good. One of the most wasted characters.

And Duncan isn't the only one. A few others were pretty offputting. For starters, Courtney and Gwen were very cringey to watch. I don't really know what emotion the show is implying with the Gwen and Courtney scenes. Is it a joke that we're supposed to laugh at? Are we supposed to be happy at watching them reconcile? Is the show intentionally creeping us out? Why  would Gwen have a unicorn dream wth?

Cameron continued to bother me and is a consistent reminder that he should've went sooner. There was some kind of arc with him this season where he's accidentally villainous but it's so rushed and seems more like a rip off of Gwen's storyline from earlier in the season. The rushed nature is especially apparent when he attaches Scott to a fishing rod so he can use his flapping in a helpless manner in order to speed up their boat? What the heck? That's a horrible thing for anyone to do and Cameron was the last person I expected to do this. I know he's intended to be accidentally villainous, but anyone with a functioning brain would know that what they're doing is wrong. Not seeing him get flushed and saved from elimination AGAIN was very angering.

Zoey's stupidity was especially annoying in this episode. She deliberately attaches herself to a pole to get eaten, just so she can see if Mike will save her. Or you could just oh I don't know, confront Mike? Horrible plot convenience and after Duncan, Izzy, and even Mike tell Zoey there's something wrong with Mike she is still completely blind to everything around her. She got worse with every episode since this.

Mal was just annoying. "The engine won't start." He just continued to be a bad villain. Mike's brain sequences were just ugly too and seemed more like space for the episode to fill. And he broke into his real self hearing Zoey call his name. Ugh, annoying cheesiness.

Everyone besides Alejandro and Scott grated on me. One of the worst characterized episodes ever. In a way the episode is sort of the set up for the bad things in future. Mike travels through his brain this episode and in the finale finds the reset button. Gwen and Courtney act like Katie and Sadie, which led to Courtney's SMS derailment looking worse. Cameron gets a new arc that built up to a bad moment in the following episode. Zoey gets rescued by Mike which causes her to revert back to trusting him constantly in subsequent episodes. I HATE this episode.

4/10