Thread:Ttowen/@comment-1037137-20140802192156/@comment-1141831-20140803212237

He does need to go...I honestly think the only reason Tom and Jen are even giving this many chances is solely based on misguided loyalty. The three did voices on two of their other popular shows and have been with them for a long time. But it is time to cut them free before the cancer sinks the entire series.

There are a few different interviews flying around, the rest can be attributed to my source.

If you remember, WT was originally Total Drama The Musical, same world-traveling concept, but everyone perfoming Theatre Musicals in Theatres across the world.

That was thrown out at AT LEAST half the writing staff's insistence at the very last minute, because they insisted that people would not be able to get these challenges, and ratings would drop.

Scripts had to be hastily re-written, Animations altered, and the entire Voice-Crew called back to-record their lines in a two-month deadline. Late-Nights and long days, people going without sleep for up to two days.

And certain writers were able to sneak their visions under the radar because everyone was utterly exhausted. World Tour was part Rush-Job, with disasterous results. Marco opted out for this reason, as apparently he went 3 days without sleep at one-point.

All-Stars and ROTI had similar problems, Uncooperative writing staff causing massive delays (ROTI), or Pushing toward another hastily-made rush-job (All-Stars). Keith and Chad had to beg Tyrone, Emily, Annika, Rachel, Megan and Brian to come back for more recording sessions after MORE rewrites 4 months before TDAS debuted.

PI is the only Season in the last few attempts too run smoothly and on-Schedule with no re-writes.

Imagine what poor Peter had to go through in that two-month period, as he voiced THREE Characters at that time, Cody, Tyler and Zeke. Hell, Ezekiel's fate may have been partially Peter Oldring's decision to save himself some hastle and effort, as he would bee strained to the breaking point. Interestingly, unlike Marco, he did not opt out of his deal.

As for Mike...well he was initially created by Tom as a character that would not only give people with mental handicaps someone to relate to, but to teach kids about those with mental illness. Again, at the very last moment, the writers decided that it would be interesting to use his illness as a way to win challenges; giving birth to Deus Ex Mike in the process. Everything went downhill from there; Zoey was also meant to be an actual hipster/indie chick, but again the writers didn't think people would get the jokes. It's all a result of terrible work environment/development/fluency.

I most certainly will! Also, this may sound a little forward, but I have an ongoing 9-12 season OC-cast fic, where I apply everything I have been ranting about, for Total Drama on my DeviantART/Fanfiction accounts. I am still currently casting characters for seasons 3-6 if you would like to check it out. Basically I have my current cast of reader-submitted OC's for season one, two and three will feature a few newbies and 12-16 returning characters from my season one, four will be a new cast, with five and six being similar to two and three, an all-star season, a no-star season, and a final season that is so controversial that...well you'll just have to wait and see ;)