Thread:Greenhatdigital/@comment-1141831-20140814004959

Hey Julie, I know you must dread hearing from me at this point, but I have a few QOD's (Questions of the day) to ask you; as well as a few suggestions. Many fans have been discussing the drastic and sadistic turn that the show's humor has taken over the past few seasons. Now us fans do realize that TD has always integrated violence and other more mature elements into its brand of humor; but since World Tour it has become less and less funny and more stomach-churning. I personally am a HUGE fan of violence, the first game I ever played when I was 5 was Mortal Kombat 4 to give an example of how used to violence in media I am at this point. The problem here lies that the sadism of Chris, cruel dialogue of others, and the injuries inflicted upon contestants and interns alike have all began to shove the character interactions, and the show's initial charm, out of the center stage.

I can not name a single person who liked the image of Chris starving the interns in SMS, well tbh I can't think of a single person who liked that episode to begin with, but I digress. Characters like Lindsay and Sam are funny when they are being their fun, interesting, and noble selves; not when they are being electrocuted or beaten to a pulp. Despite Scott being the antagonist of ROTI, and arguably the second most notorious character of that season, nobody took pleasure in seeing the karma overkill he was given; not only was his injury enough, but being mauled by Fang, put in the chair to be laughed at, and then having Chris say "Who cares? It's Scott!" definitely made a large amount of fans feel sympathetic towards the Redneck with a heart of gold.

My point, simply put, is this: Fans are being turned off by the lack of substance behind the sadism. Island, Pahkitew, and the first half of World Tour, were great because there was enough character interaction (Gwen and Trent in the Awake-a-thon, Sierra and Cody in Paris or the air balloon, and literally any scene that Jasmine and Shawn shared a conversation) per episode to counter it.

So now on to the request part. Is there any way that you can inform the writers of this tidbit of info? It would very much be appreciated if either the sadism were taken down a notch, or the amount of meaningful character interaction were turned up to counter it. As always, I wish you a wonderful rest of your day/night and eagerly await a response!

-Tobie 