User blog comment:Epic~00/Why Total Drama All Stars Was Such An Abysmal Season (PART 4)/@comment-27588345-20141030221457/@comment-4742462-20141031010120

@Bullbassaur, Part of the reason for why I believe retconning is the best opinion at this point is so that they can fix a lot of the mistakes from the past three seasons. One of them being having Mike & Zoey be more like the way Tom had originally envisioned them (Mike being someone people with mental disfunctions could relate to and Zoey being an actual hipster chick) before the writers screwed up their characters resulting in the ones we have today (playing Mike's MPD for laughs and Zoey being nothing like a hipster) even though I still like both of them to an extent.

Unfortunately that one reference to All-Stars at the beginning of Pahkitew Island is enough to throw the latter into the retcon bucket as well. My ideal Season 6 would have all of the 2nd Generation characters along with half of the 3rd Generation characters (Scarlett, Jasmine, Sky, Ella, Dave, Samey, Amy, and Beardo) as well as developing them more and making them more realistic by having it be 26 episodes again.