User blog comment:LuluTDFan/Who is the most overrated contestant?/@comment-2091662-20131218215055/@comment-1037137-20131218235310

That's kind of an extreme interpretation of how Gwen broke up with him. And besides, in that episode he was using her to make Courtney jealous. Call this bad writing, call this a crappy plot device. TDAS is chock full of them. Call it as bad a buildup to a breakup as the "buildup" to Gwuncan was when it actually got together.............But I can understand her frustration with his behavior strictly going by the context of that episode. And I wish I could say that seemed like out of character behavior for him, but honestly it doesn't. And Gwen's TDAS persona was closer to her TDI self than either of those two seasons were. In those seasons she was pretty much derailed, and by TDWT she had pretty much been made "stupid" and selfish. Neither were defining traits of hers in Island.

How is a show where most of the contestants actually survive these suicidal challenges realistic? And I frankly don't see a single thing wrong with the mutated island setting, I don't buy the childish argument on that count. The first three seasons of Total Drama were not particularly realistic either. Besides, limiting oneself to the laws of reality tends to harm creative potential in an animated series. Granted, the "creativity" of most of the post-Island seasons is hardly worthy of being called creative half the time, but I applaud mixing things up a bit, as it gave a spin to the challenges taking place on the original locale. Many have said that the challenges in TDAS, where the island returned to its original state, were not all that creative. But I'm not trying to knock TDI as that's still by far the best season. But things needed to be mixed up a bit when they returned to the island in TDROTI.

I feel Mike's MPD was better handled in TDROTI. In TDAS, it did sort of approach offensive territory when the finale did what it did. But I still can't say I expect a realistic portrayal of the disorder on this show, let alone any other cartoon in general. This isn't the first to do it, and I think the complaint is kind of like criticizing a cartoon for having the obligatory "stupid" or "moron" character like Patrick Star or something. They don't get branded in quite the same way despite being common practice for decades in animation.

If she had had more, I think they would've had plenty to work with to expand her character. If she had gotten more.