User blog comment:Cody Kins TD Fan/Which is the Worst Season Finale: TDAS or TDWT? Note: PLEASE NO MIKE AND ZOEY BASHING!/@comment-2205520-20131208235918

I'm going to have to say that the TDAS finale can't even hold a $2 candle to the others. The problem was, it didn't feel like a finale. The final two didn't really fight to get to the finale the same way Heather and Alejandro did. They just sort of... got there.In my opinion, a much better final two would have been something like Jo and Courtney.

Chris in this episode really scared me. I've gotten to the stage where I'm almost inclined to believe that the writers actually have the guts to kill off some of the contestants (WE STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO MILDRED!!!). However, I'll say this: The challenge was actually pretty good. It had a good amount of difficulty, epic scale and a definate threat. The problem was the execution.

Another thing that I also enjoyed was that Mal finally stopped his facade and came out as Mal. That definately made the challenge far more intense and somewhat more interesting. But in the end, it was handled poorly, Mike got over his multiple personality with practically no effort and we had a very very rushed conclusion where Mike just... pulled out the sword right there and then. No build-up, no epic dive. Nothing. And to cap it off, the island sunk, Vito is gone and for all we know, the other all-stars could be doing an Icarus. TDWT just had it so much better with the heated battle between Heather and Al, the race up a friggin' volcano and a culminating explosion.

That's the thing. A proper finale has to feel like one! The finalists need to have earnt their place in the final two and the challenge needs to pit them against one another in a way that really tests them and builds up to the epic climax the season has been building since day one and TDAS had the potential, but it didn't quite make use of it.