User blog comment:AGuyHere/Is there a season where the post merge is better than the pre merge?/@comment-25285054-20180103070636

This is probably an unpopular opinion but I think the end of TPDI was better than the early episodes. The earlier part of the season had almost no focus, too many nonsensical plotlines coming together at once and a crippling "characters are irrelevant until their elimination" format.

When the cast was more limited, the focus on the remaining characters, especially Skave (and Sugar to a lesser extent) brought it back down to the grounded wackyness feel of the older seasons. It was an incredibly dark story an abusive relationship told through a surreal filter and it just felt like I was watching Total Drama more to me.