User blog comment:MegamanZero0002/Battle Of The Newbies: TDRI vs TDPI/@comment-22535514-20140720052552/@comment-26897147-20140720130300

TDPI has gimmick characters compared to TDRI's one notes. At least the latter are mostly stereotypes. TDPI's characters were literally one note gimmicks. You got Beardo's beatboxing, Leonard's wizard chants, Ella's singing and interacting with animals which is just a ripoff of Dawn right there, and you also got the most gimmieck contestant of all...Rodney with his love fiasco, and that's ALL he ever did and when it got old, he got eliminated. These gimmicks hardly caused any character to develop. The only ones that that didn't develop where Sky, Sugar, Beardo, Leonard, Ella, Rodney, Scarlett, Max, Topher, and Amy...10/14 of the cast and a majority of them lasted long in the competition as flat characters. ROTI's majority didn't develop, but neither did most of the TDPI cast. And what's sad is how Sky, a finalist and was made to be the protagonist, never truly developed at all unless shunning Dave and putting the game above relationships count. There's more to be done with the ROTI cast, but the TDPI cast are about as one note as they are. Again, that's what I'm speculating.