Thread:Fedora Kid/@comment-24141224-20151010025528/@comment-1734566-20151010044731

And also, in regards to the question of where I'd rank RR characters in my overall TD Rankings...

I mean, let's just take a look at my Top 6 from RR - THREE of them are returnees who are already in my Top 10 (Noah, Owen, and Geoff). Geoff specifically DID move back into my Top 10, bumping off Scott, as a result of his time in the race. But then let's look at the other 3, and my Top 3 favorite RR newbies: MacArthur, Kitty, and Brody (who ties with Geoff since, let's face it, they're literally the same character). Obviously, I wouldn't put Brody in my Top 10 since Geoff is already there and has more precedence to be there with TDI before. MacArthur and Kitty...yeah, they're amazing, don't get me wrong...but it'd be pretty tough to put them in the Top 10 with characters who have been around for three or more seasons now. Maybe, at the absolute peak, I could see them both knocking off Scott and Gwen for the 11th and 12th spots, just outside of the Top 10? IDK.

But regardless, this season was practically FLAWLESS in giving adequate focus and development to pretty much everyone. For a season with a whopping 36 characters, that's an impressive feat. Contestants eliminated as early as the Hippies and Bloggers still got SOME kind of development that fleshed them out a bit. Really, only the first three boots got the shaft in terms of development. And at least two of the three were memorable in some way - the LARPers at least had the benefit of one of them being a returnee, so that's noteworthy enough. And the Tennis Rivals are still easily one of the most unique teams in their age, label, backstory, and dynamic - for a series which is pretty much 98% teens and young adults, two old guys who have a history as TENNIS RIVALS is definitely memorable enough in its own right.

So really, only ONE team got thoroughly screwed in terms of development and memorability: The Geniuses. And I will admit, I was shocked by that; I expected them to go far because A) I admittedly thought they were solid candidates to be the main antagonists (Scarlett-esque, at least). And B) One of them having Courtney's voice, I thought, was pretty much a guarantee to go far since, at first, I thought the people at Fresh had a massive love affair with Emilia. But clearly, their obsession was with Courtney herself, not her voice actress. So they were doomed to go in Episode 4, and their one-note running gag of ridiculously ostentatious, dictionary-esque language was never really that funny, on top of the fact that one of them didn't even speak until their final episode.

But again, for a season with 26 episodes and 36 characters to develop/focus on adequately in that timespan, this season really pulled off the seemingly-impossible.