User blog comment:Don25/A reflection on Dawn and its undeserved popularity and why it should not return./@comment-26184706-20171210175953/@comment-25285054-20171211002131

Saying "Total Drama got unrealistic so its bad now" is a pretty poor argument. Total Drama was NEVER realistic. Never, ever,  ever. The original season had slapstick that would kill a person in real life, Chris comitting actions that would immediatly get you thrown in jail,the animals were sentient, an entire episode's subplot being about Duncan fighting off a transformer made of racoons...heck, even the whole first episode couldve NEVER happened in real life.

Total Drama never changed in realism, it changed in tone. TDI was more character based, was much slower paced and was more dramatic in it's story. It was not grounded, it was down to earth, and there's a difference. It was still and always was a cartoon first and foremost.

Why did this happen? Well,, I'd say the simple answer is that the more goofy slapstick approach keeps the lights on. It was hard to tell TDI was even meant for children because they hadn't quite found their demographic yet, and were basically seeing what sticks.

Besides, people liked TDPI the most out of the post-TDWT trilogy and it was considered the least realestic season of them all, and TDAS was probably the most grounded of the three and we know how that went. Total Drama's quality is a bit more complicated than "Well it aint how I remember the show being five years ago, so it must suck!"