User blog comment:VeryUnknownFan/How Total Drama All Stars could have been better/@comment-25297892-20140814225558

Shortening,I think that the main mistakes of TDAS were basically:

-13 episodes for a season that should be at least 26,intended to be the "best" of the first row of seasons (TDI,TDA,TDWT and TDROTI) that forced authors to create stories to immediately close,like Scourtney,Mal and other.The only wiz was to end the Gwuncan couple (too overrated by the fandom) in the same poor and platitudinous way it had formed in TDWT.

-a cast based on almost wrecked/overused all stars like Duncan,Courtney,Gwen,Heather + the poor cast of TDROTI,especially Lightening,Scott and Sam + useless character like Sierra.This led to form two groups where each character was by itself,I never saw them as teams,being only Zoey for the hamsters and Alejandro for the Vultures to win the challenges.People disliked that the season was almost focused only on the Zoke,but maybe they didn't count that out of Zoke all the other characters were no worthy or too overused to have main stories:

-Duncan was pure fanservice,but after three seasons clearly there was anymore to offer than a pathetic quit of the Gwuncan and the more pathetic game of "I'm evil not good..or no?".At this point he no more deserves to be called "star",just a screenhogger pet of the Writers. -Courtney was simply awful and her friendship/enemyship with Gwen ruined both the characters at a critic level.Not to mention she offered nothing new:again ipocrital conflicts with Gwen,then fake friendship,and in addition a couple with the pale copycat of Duncan,a tylerized Scott.Just no.She and Duncan MUST stay out the cameras for a season or two. -Cam and Sierra had nothing to offer to this season,and infact they were just fillers.They didn't entertain me with the Cam-Cody gag. -Jo was actually an interesting character to see more developed,and instead she got eliminated soon.Maybe Writers had no inspiration for her.Pity. -Lightening:a seriously undeserved All Stars being the jock version of Justin.Glad he was eliminated 2nd. -Gwen:face TDAS Gwen and TDO Gwen and you'll find out that they're utterly different!TDAS Gwen was a black sheep in the VV and a doormat for Courtney,totally OOC.At least they redeemed her finally.Now she needs some rest,and to stay away the longest possible from Duncan and Courtney,that wrecked her all the times.Also the way she and Court became friends,then splitted again was childish,ridicolous and irrealistic. -Heather:first time I really saw nothing interesting by her,but was cute how she felt pity and then tried to trick Alejandro.She and Al were the best from the 1st generation cast. -Al:maybe the only villain not screwed up in his personality to fave Mal's rise.

So,excluding all these we had only Sam,Lindsay,Zoey and Mike.Sam without Dakota couldn't do anything,Lindsay was wasted at start,so the only gate for a main plot was the Zoke,that could have been managed better if Zoey wasn't just a godplayer without personality.

See?This cast was too poor to offer more than it did,and the two teams missed important chars to be effective or at least,funny.

The Heroic Hamsters missed Owen,Dawn and Izzy while the Villain Vultures missed Eva,Justin and DJ.Why you ask?There's the possible reasons:

-Izzy took part in the first three seasons and had even a cameo,but never received some serious development to merge.In TDAS a possible plot for her could be to be the first one to discover about Mal but makes it hard to be believed cause considered nut by all the Others as usual.Also while Mike has MPD problems,Izzy loves to have multiple personality...can you follow my thought?TDAS was another occasion for Izzy that got wasted,sigh.If I was a writer of TDAS,I would have made Izzy to reach the 5th place or more,even if carry on Scott and Courtney without any merit.

-Owen is the mascotte of the series,at least he had to be a filler of the season,or reach a middle position like Heather.I missed him:in a team with Izzy and Lindsay he could have offered true fun out of the overused farts.

-Dawn is a mysterious character that can read auras,and she's one of the most pure contestants ever seen:in a season themed Good vs Evil how was not possible to put her into?It was just logic.Izzy and Dawn could have formed a strange duo to give some troubles to Mal.

-Eva:I don't know why exactly,but I need her to have the same ideal number of heroes and villains.

-Justin:put in the season only to be a filler,so he and Lightening first eliminated of their evil team.

-DJ:Why,you ask?Because of his maledition that really ruined all the good traits of a pure character like DJ...so he would have been another victim of Chris's nasty attitude,along with Gwen:a good guy mistaken to be bad and so put in a team that's really not for him.I can already figure Mal or Al exploits DJ at a certain point.

So,this is my final TDAS season:

-26 episodes -Heroic Hamsters:Lindsay,Courtney,Harold (in place of Sam),Owen,Sierra,Mike,Zoey,Cameron,Izzy and Dawn -Villain Vultures:Alejandro,Heather,Jo,Lightening,Scott,Justin,Duncan,Eva,DJ and Gwen (those two undeservedly)

Elimination order: Cameron,Lightening,Eva,Sierra,Owen,(Courtney and Scott switch)Justin,DJ,Scott,Duncan,Harold,Courtney,(Eva returns and eliminates Jo and Heather),Lindsay,Eva II,Dawn 5 Finalists:Mal,Zoey,Izzy,Alejandro,Gwen in this order.