User blog comment:DeathBolt/What Made Total Drama All Stars So Bad?/@comment-26198737-20131204140319

"Continuity? What's that?" This is the mentality of the writers of this season. I refuse to believe that there were only FOUR writers this season because it's so inconsistent. With less writers, the least of any season, it should be MORE consistent. But nope.

Also, the antagonist. I can't believe I'm saying this, but he's more bland than Justin was. Mal, like everything else this season, started out great, but his motives, if you can call it that, are…lame. I would've accepted his doing bad for the sake of it if he became a Joker-like character, slowly going insane (much like Mad Mikey).

If the Final Two were as they were last season, I would've been fine with it. But I'm not. These characters are getting blatant favoritism over the others (as if Zoey winning three (four if counting the finale) challenges in a row isn't enough.) I was hoping for an all-female Final Two since last season. But since Fresh TV is so sexist, I doubt I'm EVER going to get that, which is a real shame. Also, with the concept of an All-Stars season, I was hoping that the finale was going to consist of a veteran and a rookie. But we didn't get that either. BIG disappointment.

The Flush of Shame, while gross beyond relief, was BEYOND fitting. This is where the series, as of this point, is going. If we're going to have ten seasons, five additional seasons, of this GARBAGE, I doubt I'm even gonna bother. The only eliminating fashion more fitting would be the Coffin of Shame, because this series is dead.

My biggest issue, though, is the characters and their development, or lack thereof.

Lindsay: Eliminated first. Back then, I wasn't happy with that. Little did I know that she saved herself from the worst season ever written.

Lightning: HATED him in TD:RI, hated him here. Thank Luna he was eliminated second.

Jo: Didn't mind her all that much, but she was axed too soon.

Sam: Biggest disappointing elimination of the season before the merge. An All-Star season, and you put in a contestant not of All-Star status, you would expect him to make it to the finale, or the merge at least. Nope. He's eliminated fourth, making his presence in this season utterly pointless.

Heather: Deus ex machina appears in the form of the idol when Al uses it to save himself, giving Heather the boot. Didn't mind her all that much, but HATED how she was eliminated.

Sierra: Biggest satisfactory elimination before the merge. HATED her in this season. Her character went absolutely nowhere. I was cheering when she got the boot.

Duncan: Biggest satisfactory elimination after the merge. This spotlight hog has been the writer's pet that practically divides the fans. I'm thankful that he's arrested in the episode he was eliminated in, and didn't show up in the finale (to an extent).

Cameron: Didn't mind him this season. However, I was hating him in the episode he was eliminated in (as well as the rest of the characters). He REALLY holds the idiot ball in this episode, up until his elimination. I did not miss him.

Alejandro: Ugh. The Villain Stu returns. Thankfully, he only has his powers for the first half of the season, when he was faking his leg coma. I wasn't disappointed when he left.

Courtney: My overall biggest disappointment of the season. Granted, she's still my favorite character. However, I seriously thought that the writers would go in a positive direction with her. Nope. "Sundae, Muddy Sundae" ruined all of that. Out of all of the characters on this season, my highest hopes went to her. They have been shit on, eaten, vomited out, set on fire, and shot at. The only character I was rooting for from beginning to end was her. So as you would expect, I gave up the season after that episode. Didn't bother with the next two episodes. (It even beat "The Ex-Files" as my least favorite episode of all time, and it held that spot for THREE YEARS!)

Scott: I was starting to like him, but when THAT episode came around, I didn't anymore. I just didn't care. I didn't care who was eliminated or who won. I just didn't care.

Gwen: The one thing I was hoping for was for her and Courtney to be friends again. "Suckers Punched" remains to be my favorite episode of the season, because the two finally reconciled. The following episode was great two, and I loved that they were starting to bond. Then THAT EPISODE! Gwen lost all respect I had for her when she forced Courtney to vote for herself to ensure that Gwen wouldn't vote for her, forcing Courtney to try winning, forcing Chris to change the rules at the last second (causing his interns to DIE of starvation), forcing Courtney's forced elimination. I didn't care that she was supposedly awesome in the following episode. She lost my respect.

Zoey: She used to be my favorite of the new cast. Now, I despise her. She has become another writer's pet (and is making me wonder if she's sleeping with Chris). She's also become a shallow idiot for not realizing that Mike wasn't himself. When I heard she finally realized Mike was Mal in the next episode, I wanted to slap her upside the head. Just one half of the second-worst Final Two thus far.

Mike: Like Zoey, he was my favorite male of the new cast. And like Zoey, I now despise him. Okay, not necessarily him, moreso Mal. I already explained my problems with him earlier. Again, he's just one half of the second-worst Final Two thus far.

Regarding the episodes, "Suckers Punched" was the only one to make it into my Top 10 favorite episodes list. That episode and "You Regatta be Kidding Me" are the only episodes I enjoyed this season. The rest are either dull or outright despised by Yours Truly, and a good handful of them made it into my Top 10 despised episodes list.

Overall, this season is my most despised. I don't think I'm going to bother watching the seasons that follow.