User blog comment:King Flurry51/Why they should not use Gwen & Company again for the new season/@comment-4726418-20170512134425

The reason Courtney, Duncan, Gwen, Heather, and Owen are used so often is not just because they're "screenhoggers" or whatever they're called. In a show, you need to have main characters in order for them to be the main drive of the show. That's why these 5 are brought back so often. If they just kept giving new people screentime it would just get way too complicated and you'd have to get to know people too quickly. I'm all for giving other people a shot but I can totally understand bringing back the Big 5 over and over again since they're the most straightforward and I think we can all agree we know more about them than the rest of the contestants.

And besides this, TD gave screentime to people besides the Big Five loads of time. TDI is an exception since that's the first season, but then TDA's purpose was to expand on underused characters like Harold, Justin, or Beth. You still had the bigger names like Duncan, Courtney, or Lindsay but there was still a lot more of a balance and almost everyone in this season had something new developed with them. TDWT introduced two contestants that were there right from the beginning to the end. The only real prominent Gen 1 contestants besides them were Heather and Cody. The whole love triangle thing really isn't as overly saturated as you say it is. Duncan appears in the same amount of episodes as Izzy and DJ so that tells you as much as you need to know, Courtney was pretty inconsequential for the first half of the season anyway, and Gwen didn't even merge. So really the only member of the Big Five that was exploited a lot was Heather and it was awesome.

And if you wanted a break then, RoTI already fills that gap anyways, only including cameos from other contestants. AS also obviously favored the Gen 2 contestants too. None of the Big 5 even made the Final 3 and the highest ranking of them was Gwen, who hadn't even merged since TDI. So it's still pretty balanced.

Plus you still get another break in the form of RR. Owen is there but he's really not that prevalent overall to the season. You even had Geoff, Leonard, and Noah competing, so they're clearly willing to give a shot to other contestants.

I'm pretty indifferent to whoever returns as long as I enjoy it, and that includes the Big Five. At most, three of them could be important to a season which is still really not that bad. If none of them are in the next season, I won't mind. If all of them are, I won't mind.