User blog comment:Fire Eater/Call to Save Total Drama/@comment-1037137-20131204015247/@comment-4618045-20131204112214

Exactly! And I think a big detractor from character development is that the season's only 13 episodes. When you're trying to get through a whole season that fast, things start to become simplistic and you feel powerless when watching it. Or at least that's what I felt. I think the first step is to bring the series back to a twenty-six episode format. Sure, you could only have 13 competitiors, but you could alternate between elimination and non-elimination (like what Action did). That way, not everything will accumulate to some elimination that will make you forget about all the heartfelt moments (what few All-Stars had). In fact, one of my favorite episodes in the series was "Get A Clue". The reason why this episode worked for me was because it was non-elimination. And the pattern has already been established. It seemed like a fun episode where we could see the characters in action as opposed to the slapstick. We could see who the characters really were instead of constantly being distracted (which is what ROTI and All-Stars would do). So with that, if PI ends up being 26 episodes (which I doubt) and if it brings the heart back to Total Drama, then we could be in for a great season.