User blog:Raised By Wolves/Total Drama Action Challenge Review

Hey everyone, Raised By Wolves here with another challenge review blog. Welcome to Total Drama Action Challenge Review. Total Drama Action is the second season of the show, and brings back fourteen of the most popular contestants from season one to win one million dollars. All the challenges are based on movie genres, and take place at an abandoned film lot. Many characters got significant development, and this season is known for having no "fodder" characters; everyone was important in some way. Let's analyze the challenges and see if they correspond with the excellent development that many contestants got.

Monster Cash
Genre: Monster

Challenge explanation: The cast must race to the trailers while being chased by a monster; Find the key inside prop food.

Participating contestants: Beth, Bridgette, DJ, Duncan, Geoff, Gwen, Harold, Heather, Izzy, Justin, Leshawna, Lindsay, Owen, Trent

Winner: Owen Eliminated: None

This challenge kickstarts Total Drama Action by introducing the contestants to the abandoned film lot. The story is that there's a monster going around and terrorizing the film lot. This isn't Total Drama: Revenge of the Island, so the monster is actually animatronic. The monster goes around chasing the contestants all over the film lot. The goal of the challenge is to reach the trailers (about ten city blocks away, according to the contestants' estimation). The great thing about this challenge is that it allows us to get a great preview of the film lot, and see what's in store for future challenges. There's also some clever ways that castmates get captured, such as the buildings not actually being buildings, but just sets. Then, there's the second challenge. An eating challenge, so early into the challenge. It's not really an eating challenge though. All the food is actually props, and is unedible. The goal was to tear it apart and find a key. The winner gets to choose the trailers for them and castmates of the same gender. This challenge is just...what? I don't understand it. What's the point of tearing about food props to find a key? It's unnecessary, a better challenge would have been to hide the key somewhere. It was literally just a plot device for Owen.

Best Performer : Owen, because no one else even got a chance. Worst Performer : Geoff. It was a close tie between him and Bridgette, but at least Bridgette considered focusing on the challenge. Geoff didn't. Overall Rating : 6/10. The first challenge was good, but the second challenge was confusing and absolutely pointless.