User blog comment:Epic~00/Why Total Drama All Stars Was Such An Abysmal Season (PART 1)/@comment-24152851-20140826050351/@comment-1037137-20140826055414

Personally, I cannot imagine what possessed them to think this looked any better on paper than it did after being put to animation. And who knows how much of that excitement was even genuine, I hear the production for this was a nightmare. I mean as a major studio label, they should've recognized the problems, I can't imagine who they thought they were pleasing here, and yeah I would definitely say they weren't entirely truthful in how "great" this season was. The reactions certainly don't vindicate their praise of it.

Oh yes, it all falls under those tropes. But the title itself definitely comes off as a lie, All-Stars implies something big and grand. As much as I despise World Tour, at least that felt closer to something that would fit under that title than this did. This was lazy and disorganized beyond belief. World Tour at least had the challenges and even intensity to fall under similar titles as "All-Stars", even though I still don't consider it good either.