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I am Jayden-G, and I have been a fan of Total Drama since 2007, and reading the talk page since 2009 before joining in 2013.

Total Drama All Stars Review
I was excited for this season (though knew it was a mere excuse to have the screenhogs from both generations to be together). This season dissapointed me on many levels, though there were a few good things  about it. I am gonna go over all of the characters, storylines, and all of that.

Lindsay: There is not really much to say about her. Though I knew she was a fodder for elimination  before the show even aired, she was really lazy in the episode she was in. All of her story arcs were finished (relationship with Tyler, being somewhat smart, Beth), so I am kind of glad she left early. There was not anything else to do with her, and she made it far in the first 2 seasons.



Lightning: How is it even possible for him to be even more flat and annoying than he  was last season. Wouldn't he have been more revengelful for losing and his  father being dissapointed in him (which was only brought up in the finale of that season and never mentioned before or afterwards). But he was all about his muscles and arrogance. Thank the LORD he left as soon as he did.



Jo: I think she is the one of the only one to be the same character she was in a previous season. Still the cut-throat, overly tough and competitive  girl, and her minor conflict with Heather was entertaining enough. Threw Lightning under the bus after forming  an alliance with him, and her talk is better than her game (a bit pathetic as to how she was eliminated and now that I am thinking about it, her talk was as good as her game last season...)



Sam: I barely even remember him being in the season (probably cause he was a bad fit to be in the season), less so than his eliminated predecessors. I do remember him being the punching bag  of slapstick humor until his elimination, his game consle breaking being a non-factor, and him cheating which led to him going home. He had no storyline and was extremely forgettable.

Now that the elimination fodders that had no storyline are gone... We are going to settle and talk about the storylines chronologically.

The first storyline that was completed was Duncan and Gwen. They both were happy by the time TDWT ended, and were locking lips at the boat scene in TDROTI. Now Gwen is starting to get unsatisfied by Duncan, who desperately wants attention and to make Courtney jealous,as she is ignoring him who has been her friend since TDA for Courtney's forgiveness. At first, she wanted Duncan to tell Courtney to stop glaring at her, but he did not care since it did not involve him -_-. I don't see why at this point he wants Courtney's attention and I WOULD be more invested in Gwen's storyline more if her and Courtney had a friendship in TDWT like Leshawna and Gwen did, or Bridgette and Courtney, but that is not the case (they were friend-ish). Duncan saves her from being shot in the third challenge, but does not care that he got dumped 3 episodes later -_-, really? The actual breakup scene is extremely rushed and lacked any explanation. Duncan is struggling with his good guy actions, and ultimately going to jail for proving that he is still a badboy. While Duncan is one of my least favourites, I will give him that he did not annoy me much this season.



Now let's move on to Alejandro and Heather. In the second episode (after she was shocked by his return and the uncomfortable feeling of the robot), they both felt a way when neither bothered to text each other since TDWT (ignoring the scene where he is hugging her on the boat scene in TDROTI), and I found this very interesting. They tried to manipulate one another's feelings to bother one another and to see if they care (with him ignoring her, and her being extremely nice in that Moon challenge). This was very interesting and liked how they interacted, seeing it lead up into them finally going together, but then Episode 6 happened. They form an alliance so they can vote one another off. She finds the immunity idol, and after she hides it, he finds it and uses it for himself after she convinced eveyone in the team to vote for Alejandro. His vote only counted, meaning she was gone. He proposed to go steady at the Flush of Shame, but she refuses in anger of being voted off. She did not really do anything other than that, and Al's plot with Mal will be discussed later, if you counted his arrogance after she left a plot. So this storyline which clearly had some importance got thrown under the rug so badly, though they are now together in the finale, but the point is still there.



Sierra's Cam-Cody fiasco. I was looking forward to her returning the most, and seeing her do her independent thang in the first 2-3 episodes was really getting me interested, liking where it was going. She ws more cooperative, less obsessively crazy, and more authentic moments (especially with Cameron). Then her phone broke, with her sanity, as she became more and more delusional, thinking the others were Cody, calling and treating Cameron like Cody, acting creepier and more whiny than she EVER was, and was even stalking Cameron when he switched teams. In the end of TDWT, she was more calm, likable and all, and they continued that for the first few episodes, but then her plot turned back to Cody when he was NOT EVEN THERE. Speaking of Cameron, he annoyed me in the last episode. He was friendly enough to share his money with the entire cast of ROTI, and used his intellect of facts instead of cunningness to win but in his last episode, he followed Mike's disgusting plan to break Scottney up by kissing Courtney. How would he not know something was up with Mike when he studied him ALL LAST SEASON, and he would feel extremely guilty for having to do something like that,. This act kind of derailed him in some ways, and brought him down as a character to me.

Now here is where the major plotlines start, and here is the one I dread the most.

They are my least favourite couple for many reasons. First, it came right out of nowhere. She asks for an ally which really gots nowhere, than an eposide later she says something is missing in her life and conveniently a Scott bird shows up -_-. He likes her because she is pretty and bosses him around; WHAT, he LOVED being in control and got mad when he was controlled or had no power in ROTI, where did this come from. Anyways, she likes him because.................. no explanation, and they start caring for one another in an episode. Another reason why this does not work is because they have no genuine interactions with one another (their first kiss was extremely contrived and awkward in a bad way). There are no bonding moments for them, no substance, nothing. Not only does the couple not make sense, but the circumstances of the Cam-Courtney kiss is weird too. Why would she run up and kiss Cameron after her and Scott fell into the ditch, and he is right beside her? Wasn't she making fun of Cameron a few episodes prior? So they break up and hook back up, though he is still clearly upset through the next episode. In her last episode of the season (easily the worst of the entire season), she makes the chart, showing him as a rat. He is pissed at that and wants to vote for her, because he is sick of her trifling ways. After she is gone, he misses her and says she was not bad -_-. This couple makes no (...use your imagination...) sense.



Now that I already started talking about Courtney, might as well finish off her other plot; Gwen. I never really gave two cents about the whole triangle thing, and never unserstood why people said "Oh, why would she do that ot her best friend?"; they were not even friends (friend-ish, but not friends). So for the first 3-4 episodes, Gwen tries to apologize to Courtney, but it seems like she is tampering with her evilly. Gwen apparently misses their friendship (twitches eye) as she ignores her biggest friend since TDA. So from around Episode 5-7, Courtney is slowly starting to like Gwen again, and their friendship is official in Episode 8. They start to act extremely girly and stuff which would be fine, but neither of them are really that girly; they are not Katie and Sadie. Since when do they care about one another's looks? They are happy they are BFFS but the Camoern kiss puts a halt to it, since Gwen thinks Court is a hypocrite. Courtney later talks to her and they are all good....for an episode. Court's chart has Gwen 3rd place, making her upset and has no friends. Gwen asks Courtney to vote for herself to prove their friendship means something to them, and NOTHING IS EXPLAINED. I can not even believe they were not in the finale. Another plot point gone down the toilet with little ot no explanation. I am not even going to mention the derailment of the two characters and the inconsistencies.

Now we are at the most prominent and least interesting plotlines of the season; Zoey's relationship troubles with Mike thanks to Mal, and Mal himself. So Mike and Zoey are extremely happy with one another, and he embraces his MPD. They are good for the first 2 episodes, until Scott hits him over the head, causing Mal to erupt. Mal starts to break things like Sam's gam console, Sierra's phone, and more and Mike has trouble changing personalities. This happens up until like mid-season. During this time, Duncan recognized Mal as the head honcho of the juvie he was in, which leads to more questions than answers. HOW did Mal end up in prison? HOW did Mike deal with Mal for these years? WHAT is Mal's ultimate goal? WHHAT about a backstory to Mike period? Anyways, Ducnan warns Zoey, as she has her doubts too, but she chooses ot ignore them, and that is....it with Duncan and Mal juvie thing. Anyways, Zoey is winning challenge after challenge, god-playing (this makes somewhat sense with Al and Sierra because they at least EXPLAIN their suprise skills they have), with no explanation to where she got these skills from. Mal takes control fro Mike permanemtly in Episode 8, creating an alliance with Alejandro, and making Cameron his next target. So Al finds out about Mal being evil via sneaking into the production room, and hides the evidence that Mal tries ot plant on him that he rigged the votes for Cameron to go home. This puts him on Mal's hit list, and he fights to remain in the game. He warns Zoey, who is too mad that he did whatever he did, and believing that thanks to Mal. So that is 2 people who warned her so far. Anyways, she eventually finds out about the disk and FINALLY knows that Mal is controlling Mike. Not only are they extremely bland, and you dont give two cents about them, but there are so many loopholes and unexplained things. So the finale comes and Mike wins -_-. I know I skipped a few things with them, but their blandness and all of the other frustrrating ish above about the season are tiring me out. Mike's entire plot and backstory has no explanations, Zoey becomes the biggst Mary-Sue in Total Drama, and....... (goes crazy in room). I am so sick fo these two.

This season has so many problems; derailment of charactes, awful continuity, lack of explanations, abrupt storylines ending quicker than a wink. This season had potential, but took every flaw from TDI, TDA, TDWT, and TDROTI and made them worse. This season is the failure of Total Drama. I use to dislike TDROTI, but the ONE thing this seaosn taught me is to appreciate TDROTI (I should watch that to calm myself down). Good things about it.......... AleHeather are together, those one-liners are funny sometimes, the triangle is FINALLY put to rest. I needed to vent.

Total Drama Revenge of the Island Review
When Total Drama Revenge of the Island aired, I was not feeling it like I was the other 3 seasons, and it was NOT because they had an all new cast. A majority of it had to do with the 13 episode format that it introduced to the series. Another was because of the lack of interaction between the characters and the fact that a majority of them are flat and underdeveloped. After watching Total Drama All Stars, I learned to appreciate this season A LOT more quality and entertainment-wise. Let's start with the eliminaiton fodders.



Staci: She was literally made for us to be annoyed with her so she can leave and no one will miss her, and in that retrospective, a job well done. All she does is say that her family made and invented everything, which are all lies. She is a bad joke.



B : Well a common complaint about him is that he is a godplayer and silent, and.........that is cotrect. He is flatter than a pancake (personality wise, not physically) and only there to irritate Scott enough to be his first target. Next.



Dawn: Yes, while she lasted 5 episodes (equivalent of 10 episodes in a 26 episode season format), she does not have a story arc. She reads a few people's auras (Dakota, Zoey, Mike, Scott, Brick), and helps in challenges  but the problem is, she is to give insight on others and not herself. Her aura and her wicca stuff are interesting, but never adds any depth to her or make her more important to the show.

I am gonna cover the storylines buy the amount of importance and focus it gets, so I am gonna read Lightning now.



<p style="font-size:14px;">One of my issues with him is that he is a finalist, but had no plot (except his conflict with Jo and Cameron), but the issue is that those plots last 2-3 episodes at the most. I guess it is to make him an antagonist after Scott left, but the excutiuon is really bad. For the other 8 epousodes, he does absolutely nothing but be a bad comic relief and stay under the radar. His Jo-guy thing got old really fast, and lasted from episode 7-10, so he has half  season of doing nothing. Him not being given any depth until the finale where they expose him consantly trying to impress his dad (which was ONLY brought up in the finale and never mentioned again) does not help. He should left way before he did.

<p style="font-size:14px;">Now that I brought up Jo, might as well get her and her plots over with (conflict with Brick and Cameron).

<p style="font-size:14px;">When I originally saw her, I thought she was gonna be a carbon copy of Eva and in some ways, she is. The difference is that Jo is more calm, a strategist, and a bit insecure about her sexuality, ginving her some depth. Her and Brick bump heads because they are strong competitors, extremely athletic, and wants to be in control. There are certain things that implicate that they hae a minor attraction, but they focus on the healthy competition. The difference between the two of them is that Brick is a lot more noble (being his downfall in the competition) and Jo is more cut-hroat and underhanded. The conflict between the two is very well done. Brick is easily the most interesting character of the cast (though he is not supposed to be coughMikeandZoeyCough). He wnats to be in control and tough because he was picked on a lot in his childhood, but is noble instead of agressive, which ultimately makes him the better person. These two have more depth than most of the cast.

<p style="font-size:14px;">I thought of talking about Cameron`s conflicft with Jo above, but it is more about Cameron`s character than Jo`s. Cameron`s entire arc is about him making it out int he real world and out of his bubble and mother, which si done well enough... I guess. The biggest thorn to this arc is Jo, who constantly taunts him about being weak and will never make it through the season (meaning he will of course win). She uses and abuses him, until he catches on and votes her off with Lightning; beating her at ehr own game of throwing people under the bus. His conflict with Lightning in the last 2 episodes do not work because they never interacted until episode 10, and Lightning never wanted to get at Cameorn until Episode 11 where eh stole his invincibility (after he broke his promise to Cameron). Cameron is fascinated with butterflies, biology, and psychology, which helps him study Mike and finds out about MPD. My only issue with him is that he never really had a conflict with how harsh things werre for him, or it was not that focused upon.

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<p style="font-size:14px;">I think it is the right time to talk about Dakota and Sam. While I do like the concept of them, it seems to lacjk substance. So their first interaction happens in the 2nd episode where he htis on her and tries to impress her, while she thinks he is weird and unattractive. So she is voted out in said episode and comes back an episode later as Chris`intern. Now she is suddnely attracted to him....okay. In the 4th episode, he falls into a hole she dug up, and a bunch of animals eat him up as she walks away, not liking the feeling of guilt. He asks her for fashion advice in the 6th episode; they beocme a couple in episode 8. Apparently the base fo thie relationship is about them being technially dependant on technology -_-; I think the issue pseaks fo ritself. As individual characters, Sam is kind of a generic video gam addict, but Dakota is better than I thought. She is a spoiled princess, but is not a wiotch and does nto want daddy to do everything for her. She has big plans and plans outside fo Total Drama, using it as a platform to do anything involving fame (one of the only outside of Heather to do this). She is one of the better charactes of the flat cast.

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<p style="font-size:14px;">Let's talk about this season's antagonist Scott. It's like he is supposed to be a serious, imtimidating antagonist, but also a silly one (thanks to the Shark gag). So his method is to sabotage his team at each challenge and frames the other contestants to get the team to vote off said target. This plan is unique compared to his predecessors who formed alliances and manipulated others, and actually trying to win challenges. This si alright but he does not clean up his plan as well as he thought, and wouldn't people find his lack of effort in challenges, and constantly accusng others of sabotage and other things; catching on to hsi suspicious behaviour. Well no one thinks he is bad except fdor Dawn (who he gets rid of), and Zoey. Mike and Cameon had a bad feeling about him, but nothing more. As a character, he is not he is not one we love to hate because he is not that deceptive or engaging. We get little comments about him being a farmer, but it adds no depth to him. At least he was intimidating enough here and his plan worked, as he became so different on his second season. He is smack dab in the middle of the antagonists.

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<p style="font-size:14px;">And now we get to the dreaded love triangle. So when we first see the couple Mike and Zoey, they are already heavily flirting with one another. The only thing we know they have in common is that they like action movies -_-. It is glaringly obvious that they are supposed to be the second generation replica of Gwen and Trent, but the difference is that Gwen and Trent are not entirely (for Trent I said entirely) dependant on one another and have interesting things about them individually. Both of them though are extremely bland and boring, barely having substance. Actually, Zoey's is about her being alone all her life and stuff, being a small town girl, but that gets focus in like the first 2 episodes, and her final episode; being ocmpletely overshadowed by her relationship with Mike. This relationship composes of her being a damsel in distress, always geting saved by Mike (and being the only trigger for him to regian comtrol of his body -_-.) How can you have 2 people who have 1% of substance and expect an engaging relationship. The other thing that gets in the way of being with her is his personality disorder. He has 4 other personalities (ALL more interesting than Mike), and he can not control it, so he lies and gets Cameron to help him cover it from Zoey, which makes her minorly not trust him. I have mentioned many times that the portralal of MPD is deplorable, so next.

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<p style="font-size:14px;">I know that is not Vito, but whatever. So the incompetent relatoinship of Voti (The Situation) and Anne Maria (Snooki) is about her thinking Mike is an act, as Vito only appeared when they were alone (false). This is to create drama, but even 3 year olds know how this will turn out, sine Vto is an asset fo Mike. As soon as she is gone, it is never settled properly and dissappears. Anne Maria herself is all about her looks and being tough. She is neither antagonistic or selfless, but she has a few moments of where she shows concern and appreciation of others. She is more interesting than the 2 above, but has absolutely no substance, and is a flat character to be a mere plot device. This entire plot was handled badly.

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<p style="font-size:14px;">My biggest issue with this season is that it lacked any heart and substance. It is hard to get invested when there is practically nothing to invest in that is not black and white. Despite that, most of the plotlines are concluded properly, it is consistant, there are no derailment of characters, and some developed. Also, there is no bond with the cast, and barely any interaction between them that could build into osmething mroe (conflict, friendship, or relationship). While it is kind of entertaning and did wrap up the main storylines properly, the characters were developed and likable (only some of them), things were clear that they were not the same from the earlier days of the series.