User blog comment:Flagator24/Did TDA have the worst final two?/@comment-1854897-20170505214013

TDA was flat out horrible prior to the debut of Courtney and following the return of Owen. They butchered Trent, Geoff, Bridgette, and Gwen horribly, literally drained Owen of all likability, and forced Beth despite everyone wanting more of Lindsay and Harold, who alongside Duncan, were the best characters of TDA, but they were eliminated before the final 4 leaving us with basically the SAME final 4 from TDI (Duncan, Owen, Mean Girl, Outcast). Not to mention the pacing was god awful. 15 people in 26 episodes. Every other episode was a non-elimination which meant it took forever to progress and it was just extremely slow. It is the ONLY final 2 in history to have absolutely no chemistry with each other so their interactions were just not fun to watch. The ending I prefer is Beth's but her winning did absolutely nothing for her character in later seasons and she's the only possible winner that just feels so unsatisfying. Her storyline was "I have no braces and have a boyfriend and I hate Courtney", the latter of which Lindsay was portraying much better. The final 4 should have been Lindsay, Courtney, Duncan, and Harold and any combination of the 4 could have been an AMAZING final 2. Owen comes back to screen hog to the final 3 and take out Lindsay and Harold, the best of the whole season.

Another issue is the lack of a real antagonist. Justin had potential and when they realized they failed to do what they wanted to do, they created Alejandro who was just better Justin. Courtney's beef with Gwen and Harold weren't explored at all cause her entire thing was she was mad that she was unfairly eliminated and to keep an eye on Duncan. So I wouldn't say she was a villain, she was just a drama queen. Leshawna was the target of all hate for a good chunk and then that died down. Geoff was easily the antagonist of the Aftermath Show. Owen was brought back to be an antagonist and failed. And Heather was taking a backseat for TDWT. The lack of a real true villain was a huge downfall for me. It had a few good episodes and we got to see a lot for Beth, Harold, and Lindsay as well as continue seeing Duncan cause we all looooove Duncan. Ya see, all that I could forgive. The slow pacing, the lack of a villain, Owen, the butchering of character, all of that I can forgive. What I cannot forgive is the fact that if you take this season out of the rest of the series, it wouldn't change ANYTHING. If you went straight from TDI to TDWT it would have been the same shit as adding in TDA in between. It did nothing in the grand scheme of things and it doesn't matter how badly written TDAS was and how eccentric (for lack of better words) TDRI and TDPI were, TDA did NOTHING for the characters and all the good development it had for some characters wasn't ever brought up again in TDWT or TDAS.

Total Drama Action not only had the worst final 2, but it was the worst season in history. And the worst part is it didn't have to be horrible, but yet it was. At least the updated animation was nice, but it has nothing on the new animation and I can't wait for TD6 to see the original cast with updated clean animation.