User blog comment:DeathBolt/What Made Total Drama All Stars So Bad?/@comment-24028957-20131201170504/@comment-1037137-20131202022237

Potential is key here, thank you CoGreen. Yes, this is about Potential. Brick and Dawn were two characters who many came to see as having that potential, unlike Staci who was designed as a first throwaway unfortunately and Sam who despite being likable was kind of a low-key sort of character. (No offense to anybody who is a huge fan of them) And if you read them in fanfictions, they can be incredible. All of them, fan writers have done amazing things with virtually everybody in these two casts. It's been the choice of the fans to exploit their potential. And depending on who you ask and about what character you ask of, it was the choice of the writers of the actual show not to.