User blog:AverageHero/Total Drama Survivor

Greetings, users of Total Drama wiki!

My name is AverageHero or Avi for short. I used to be an avid member of both this wiki and the TD Fanfiction wiki years ago, but left to focus on my schooling. Recently I finally graduated! My love for television and storytelling inspired me to minor in Creative Writing.

Total Drama is still one of my favorite shows ever created and I find myself often revisiting it. I always wanted to complete one of my fanfiction series but never did before my departure. As a writing exercise, and to fulfill my desire to create my own season of Total Drama, I'm creating this blog to introduce my ideas and get feedback from other fans of the show to inform my thought process during the planning stage.

I understand that this is not the TD Fanfiction wiki, so I won't be posting anything regarding my fanfiction series beyond this discussion blog.

Since leaving the wiki, I got really interested in the Survivor series (for reasons that might be obvious to users who are also fans of both shows). Since discovering Survivor, I started wondering what Total Drama would be like if it utilized more serious strategy in the show. Therefore, the seasons I would like to create take heavy inspiration thematically from Survivor.

I know I might be somewhat rambling, but I'll get to the point. I'm going to post descriptions of each season that I've been contemplating. I'd love to hear from all of you which contestants you think should participate in each season based on the theme.

Season One: Total Drama Second Chance
I have five seasons planned for this series, each being 13-20 episodes. I studied screenwriting and fiction writing in school, so right now I'm leaning towards writing the episodes in script format. I used to only write in fiction format, but I find that screenwriting helps with timing. It also would be quicker for me to write since I'm working full-time and this is more so a passion project. The length would be 22-30 pages, depending on how many episodes are in the season. Ex: If the season was 13 episodes, I would for sure do 30 minute episodes to allow for strong character development since that's an area that could at times suffer in Total Drama's 13-episode seasons.

Anyways, the first season of this Total Drama Survivor series would essentially be the same thematically to Survivor: Cambodia. The cast would be comprised of 16-20 contestants that only played one season and deserve to play again. I was considering also including contestants that just really messed up in a prior season and deserve redemption.

Season Two: Total Drama Blood vs. Water
The second season's cast would be comprised of 8-10 pairs of contestants that share a connection i.e. sisters, best friends, formerly in a relationship, currently in a relationship, family, etc. They wouldn't compete in pairs like Ridonculous Race, but having contestants that share strong bonds with each other could change the game. Obviously, this season takes inspiration thematically from Survivor: San Juan Del Sur and Survivor: Blood vs. Water.

Season Three: Total Drama Island Race
The third season is basically Total Drama World Tour but follows a cast of 18 contestants traveling through a remote chain of islands rather than country to country. Pretty self-explanatory.

Season Four: Total Drama Fans vs. Favorites
The fourth season is basically ''Survivor: Micronesia. 10 fan favorite contestants from Total Drama ''compete against 10 new contestants that would be created by myself.

Season Five: Total Drama All-Stars 2
The fifth and final season would be a second All-Stars season, with contestants being chosen by myself based on their performance from the past nine seasons (five seasons of the original series, four seasons of my own series).

Let me know in comments which contestants you think would work best in each season. As I said before, I am working full-time so this is definitely just a passion project to pursue in my free time. However, I really wanted to make this blog just to create a discussion that could potentially help me in the planning stages.

Thank you to anyone who participates in this blog and I hope you are all doing well!