User blog comment:Tdwtfan555/13 Episode Format Not Working Out/@comment-11883116-20140208001551

Of course 13 episodes format is too short to develop anything well. Such short format is good for only a few reasons: However, in order to make a good season with interesting contestants, interactions, plots, etc. we definitely need more episodes. If 26 is too much for the creators, then what's about 20 or 18? Who said we must have only 26 or 13 (not counting the specials that are gone now and leave a huge hole between seasons)? Plus, we will have about 50 contestants soon! 26 episodes isn't long enough anymore (But of course not everybody has to compete in one season, unless it is a final season of the series).
 * If your favourite contestant gets eliminated early, you'll have to watch less episodes without this contestant.
 * If this season is bad-written and has more issues to hate, it'll end faster. In other words, boring season would be better not to have 26 episodes.

I hope 26 (or 18-20 as I mentioned before) will be back, so the old TDI-TDWT climate would be back! Fingers crossed!

But 13 episodes format is not the only thing that destroyed TD series. It was also destroyed by lack of reality. I know, TD has never been a realistic reality show - just look at the animals and many other things, such as too quickly recovering from serious injuries or having to wait so long for hairs to be grown back. But TDAS made something worse than before - scenes inside Mike's head. Ok, so we got Owen's stories before but these were much more realistic than something what changed psychiatry so much. I liked how Mike's MPD worked in TDRI even despite even in this season it was unrealistic. Seriously, whoever watched TDI and then TDAS knows what am I talking about. TDAS is far from reality.