User blog comment:TylerSurvivorFan/Who Will Win in Canada?/@comment-3573655-20141114140946/@comment-27329394-20141115012617

I completely disagree with your first point Stryzzar. An antagonist taking advantage of people's incompetence and or someone's current predicament is something every antagonist on the show does. Heather took advantage of Lindsay and Beth's incompetence to be safe, Justin took advantage of Beth's attraction to him to get out of work, Courtney used Justin's attraction towards her to eliminate him, Alejandro did the same thing Courtney did but with Bridgette, Scott took advantage of Mike's MPD to make him do the challenge, Mal took advantage of Cameron's trust to make him screw over Scottney, and Scarlett took advantage of the contestant's ignorance of her evil to try to kill them. Some contestants did to way more contestants that I just listed, so why is Sugar taking advantage of Ella's naivety any different? Why is Sugar using Dave's insanity to get Sky tagged any different?

The definition of strategic is "relating to the identification of long-term or overall aims and interests and the means of achieving them." Every contestant has a goal (winning), but Sugar knew what to do to get there. Playing the game strategically here means you need to adapt to your surroundings and make the best of what is given to you. Sugar did this to certain contestants and she didn't even do it that much. Sugar tried to form an alliance four episodes before anybody else even tried to. If Sugar wasn't somehow strategic in tricking Ella or using Dave, then I'd say nobody in Total Drama is strategic.

If she didn't "godplay" until there were four contestants left, then she clearly worked to get to that point in the first place. Her team, aided by her efforts, didn't lose a challenge after episode two, so she didn't float past there. The first three challenges she did about the same as everyone else did, I mean blems and wouldn't have gotten eliminated anyway if she missed the coin due to the disqualification the episode featured, there wasn't an elimination in This is the Pits and she was pretty helpful there anyway, and Three Zones and a Baby was by design a collaborative effort. After the merge, she won in she won invincibility in Hurl and Go Seek and Scarlett Fever had no ceremony.

Even if she did get away in Sky Fall, that means she came in third... instead of fourth. Just because she made it past one episode without doing much does not mean she floated. She didn't even make it to the finale, so what's the big deal about her getting one spot higher than she theoretically should have. Some people have done pretty well blindfolded in the past on the show (The Princess Pride being an example) and she crossed it successfully so she wouldn't die or something. Yes the tree falling was a bit random, but let's not forget how Sky won the challenge.



So really, it's not a big deal anyway if people are just okay with this happening. The next episode worked better with the cast of Sugar, Shawn, and Sky in order for there to be some sort of ongoing conflict happening. Remember how everyone was so upset when Lightning was the antagonist because Scott/Jo weren't in the final thre? Well now people are mad that Sugar made it to third, which makes no sense because that's the exact opposite of what happened before. And if her being flung off the tree is such a bad thing in Pahk'd with Talent, remember that it only happened because they needed to keep her in contention for the rest episode and to show her losing at her own game. If she had done actually done the challenges as well as Sky and Shawn did, then that would be an example of something she legitimately could not do. She got eliminated about eight minutes after it happened and she got hurt while doing so, so it definitely wasn't her finest hour to begin with.

Sorry if I sound a little bit frustrated, but I refuse to believe that Sugar just floated to the final three when she did all of this beforehand, doing relatively well in the challenges, having the most strategic approach out of all the contestant, only pulling a few one random skill off with the coin (which isn't even that damn bad, every contestant has done something like this before) that ultimately didn't really affect the outcome of the episode to begin with, and made it only one episode further than theoretically should have if you are going to look at effort given. So in the end, Sugar more strategic than the other two, had around the same success in performances in the challenges, and wasn't as athletic or nice as the other two. They were all equally deserving.