User blog comment:ThomasVeggieDramaFan/Pahkitew Island: One Year Later/@comment-5221692-20150629033452/@comment-4742462-20150629034823

People use how Mike's mental disorder was handled as an excuse for why Pahkitew Island was better even though it honestly felt more cartoony and wacky with it's setting of a 100% fake island full of animatronic animals.

Jasmine was actually based off Steve's daughter and MacGyver.

Most of the characters I felt were gimmicks that you'd expect from a Robot Chicken parody of the show and not an actual season of Total Drama. I can see roughly most of the cast of Revenge of the Island coming back while I can only truly believe 4 or 5 characters from Pahkitew Island can come back in some believable manner.

Another factor for me is how much effort was put into it. Say what you will about Revenge of the Island, but they actually delayed it by almost half a year in order to remove a lot of material that would've been deemed insensitive in wake of the nuclear disaster in Japan. That to me shows that they at least still cared enough about what they were doing in order to delay the season like that.

Pahkitew Island on the other hand... It was written and produced at the same time as All-Stars and was rushed into production with no rewrites making what went to air essentially a workprint in need of lots of polishing. They could've at least delayed this one as well and maybe put more time and some actual effort into it instead of insisting on having it out the door to air for 2014.