User blog:Broodje Kroket/Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race, 6 months later.

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Well, it's been well over 6 months since the 1st season finale of The Ridonculous Race. And after all these months, are you people still thinking as favorably/unfavorably about after the peace had returned?

To me, it was the best thing that has happened to the TD series as a whole for a long time, it was a long-awaited fresh breeze into the series that opened up a whole lot of new possibilities and ways to go! And despite the completely different approach, it still felt like the early days of Total Drama Island; no massive derailing, no incredibly idiotic plots and with more than enough feel-good moments squeezed in between everything else!

However. if there is one thing I'm a little disappointed about though, it's about how some of the pairs were used. My foremost being...

Taylor and Kelly.

You see, in the first episode, I got this air that Kelly is having a bit of a identity/midlife crisis judging from the remark she makes about hanging out with Taylor's friends. Though the plot they had now was fine as it is, for me it would've been a much more interesting one if Kelly tried to feel young again by obnoxiously trying to youthfully bond with Taylor... and Taylor using that opportunity to bend her mom into any way she wants to! It's up to you how that would've ended but to me this would've been a great set-up for a antagonistic pair!

Anyway, I was trailing off...

The marketing for the season was also great! At least I felt it was! Showing a background (And beautiful ones with that) once a week and letting the people guess where it is! Same goes for the contestants, but the best piece of marketing was probably the one they didn't intend to release, that's right, I'm talking about the 1st episode leaking online!

As we all know, between the reveal of the 2nd pair and the 3rd was a long time of relative radio silence aside from the background-game, but many were not satisfied with that. And as such, interest slowly faded. Then, on the 11th of June 2015, the first RR episode leaked onto the internet, and it was the talk of the fandom and interest in RR shot back up! And in that sense, I think it was the best thing that could happen for the promotion of RR that it leaked online, no matter how badly we messed up as a fandom with Fresh TV, seeing how it brought so much interest back after those months.

Then there is one last thing I'd like to talk about before is the first airings itself because boy oh boy did CN mess this up!

Instead of a new episode every week, thus allowing for fans to build up hype for the next episode, because you can't deny that there's nothing more exciting than eagerly waiting every week to see a new episode, CN just went with a new episode EVERY DAY with the excuse that people binge-watch a lot these days. I felt as if they just wanted to get over with premiering the show without having to stick with it for at least half a year if they went with a weekly schedule. What also backs up that they cared considerably little is that they choose unfavorable airtimes for RR, probably so that their own shows could get the premium slots. And if that has to happen again, then please let Teletoon premier any future seasons again!

So tl;dr, to me, The Ridonculous Race still is the best we fans could wish for, but despite how awesome it already was (Mind me, I'm speaking for myself here), there were still a few nitpicks but that can't possibly ruin its greatness!

So... what do you folks think? Share it with the rest! :D