User blog comment:AlphaBeta25/Total Drama Super Slamdown Episode 23: The Big Bad Finale/@comment-1152668-20180322161003

Congrats on finishing the season! That's a huge accomplishment! I can't wait for Worlds Collide!

Favorite Episode: 15 - The Goriest Forest

Final Rankings:

Didn’t Do Anything Tier

21/22. Joel/Carmen

Boring Tier

20. Sarah - Generic Girly-Girl Character

19. Thteven - Just a dude with a lisp

Dissapointing Tier

18. Matt - Just a point in a love trapezoid that has a repetitive quirk and antagonizes pretty much everyone for no reason.

17. Karen - Solely existed as Thorin and Toronto's third wheel. Didn't do anything noteworthy without at least one of those two being present.

Underused Tier

16. David - As soon as he was becoming interesting he got booted.

15. Daniel - He was an interesting foil to Jim, but got eliminated due to plot before he could really explode.

Comedic Relief Tier

14. Andrew - Very Over-The-Top. If he was toned down, he could have some interesting plots in the future.

13. Lenny - Although not an original archetype, he served his role well. His unceremonious exit was also very charming.

12. Khione - Who can't relate in some tangential way to a germ freak? She was easily root-able, but got eliminated before she could do anything outstanding.

11. Agatha - Very well-developed with a clear cut characterization and solid interactions with almost all of the mergers. If she was taken in a more serious direction she would've been top-5 easy, but that ship has sailed. For what she is, she's great!

Potential Tier

10. Ben - Although he randomly decided to committed TD seppuku and ushered in a new era - a gag character, his gag appearance made me hungry to see Ben compete with some fire in his belly.

9. Zack - He was a very well chiseled antagonist caricature. If he wouldn't have been upstaged by Jim, I feel like he would've done great as an antagonist or even an anti-villain.

8. Abbey - The amoral detective with seemingly long-term plot lines gets blindsided by her own idol. The most shocking elimination of the season, for sure. I'm not sure it was worth it, though. Her giving her idol to Jim for some unexplained reason is very unsettling. Her demise bought about a huge shift in the season, for better or worse.

7. Ken - This poor dude. Every time he would get some story building up, it'd crash down immediately or never get brought up again. Lorelei bringing up a huge clue to his secret? Never goes anywhere. Abbey bribing him with his secret? She gets booted next episode before it goes anywhere. Becoming friends with David/Daniel? David gets immediately booted,  and he back-stabs Daniel for Jim? Friendship/relationship with Kiirston? LOL-ROCKS fall on him off-screen. He was definitely a well-crafted character, though. Hopefully we'll see him fully realized in the future, there were glimmers of hope for sure this season.

Screen Hog Tier

6. Jim - Creator's pet? Probably. Elimination Houdini? Absolutely! Jim is easily the most developed character in the season. We learned everything about him, arguably too much. As soon as Zack got whacked, Jim went from barely being there to front and center, almost non-stop. He certainly would have benefited from more than two cool-down episodes (6&7). His character traits had some inconsistencies, but were mostly well-established and kept clean. He had some fun moments, and I can see how people like him. Much like Sugar in TDPI, I personally can't find anything to connect with him.

5. Thorin - Not as bad as Jim when it comes to taking up paragraphs, but he was the only other character consistently getting focused episodes after he started doing stuff in episode 6. Karen completely orbited around him, Matt wanted to be him, and Toronto just couldn't get enough of him. He was too socially flawless for me to get behind him.

Outstanding Tier

4. Toronto - Wholesome Pain-Magnet that got robbed by Jim's unexpected return. His positive attitude was certainly contagious, even if he had an occasional mean-spirited jab (most of which were at Jim, understandably).

3. Lorelei - The most improved character for me on my re-read. She was always there, but never had an overbearing presence like Jim or Thorin. I believe she was the most consistently written character of the season, and was a very deserving finalist. She also had a diverse list of interactions, most of which were very entertaining.

2. Richard - He served the role of the merge boot very well. His interactions were seldom, but always enjoyable. The way the majority of the cast ignored was also a great quirk and very relatable to me, personally.

1. Kieirston - I love her archetype. Although her doing things in any given episode was a toss up, whenever she did something it was always fun to read. She always felt out-of-place and that made her a perpetual underdog. I was really rooting for her come the merge, and was heart-broken when Lorelei chose Toronto over her.