User blog comment:BradP27/Why RR was the Best Season Since the Original TDI--if not better/@comment-2091662-20151013215952/@comment-1734566-20151014224606

I find it so odd that, yes, Alejandro vs. Heather WAS easily one of the best final two's ever...and on paper, it SHOULD have been an awesome finale...but it just wasn't. Again, I LOVE the finalists - just not the finale itself.

I'd still say Owen vs. Gwen was the best. It was a perfect case of two perfectly enjoyable characters where you can root for one or the other, and would be satisfied with either one winning - and you had one who was, obviously, the dramatic focus/protagonist of the season, and the other who was mostly comic relief, but always a big presence in the season since it began. Again, I maintain Duncan vs. Beth was the worst ever simply by virtue of how unbelievably FORCED it felt. A forced-down-your-throat screen hog, who's not that likable or developed, vs. a forced-down-your-throat underdog, who's not that likable or developed. TDR's final two was probably the most cliche, yet still really enjoyable, TDAS's was perfectly mediocre (not AS bad, I feel, as it could've been, but still definitely not good), and TDPI's was a surprising twist in terms of just WHO they were (OK, maybe SOME people saw Sky as a serious F2 contender, but come on - who could've POSSIBLY predicted Shawn to go to the end?), but it fell flat because there was literally ZERO dynamic and interaction between the finalists themselves (both over the course of the season AND in the finale).