User blog comment:TheAmazingTurtle/Why Pahkitew Island is so great/@comment-26910203-20150821205437

I respect your opinion but I personally think this season is overrated and since it came after such a mediocre, excuse me, terrible season it looks better. Honestly, I don't really understand much of the praise this season received.

The first problem I had with it were the characters, not only are they getting more and more unrealistic each generation (I liked being able to see some people I knew in the first generation cast and IMO it made it seem more like a "reality show") but I only liked a couple out of the 14. Namely, Jasmine and Shawn (ironically). Max was funny at times but he is one of those characters that are "too stupid too live", I liked Dave in the beginning but well....we all know what happened later. The others seemed either bland and boring (Sky, Samey), or annoying (Rodney, Leonard, Beardo, Topher, Amy, Ella) and the villains were dreadful IMO (Sugar, Scarlett).

I can sort of see why people like Scarlett Fever (which I guess is Scarlett's big bad episode)...but to me it seemed random and kind of rushed. You're telling me a braniac was fooled by a Chris dummy? I don't even really want to talk about the robotic animals and traps not to mention the episode itself was sort of humor less. Sugar just wasn't a villain I could take seriously (she was too gross and weird) and she only eliminated 2 people one by accident (which seemed like a way to justify her getting that far) and the other out of hatred.

Which gets me to another thing I didn't like...the humor. Yes, the humor was better than All Stars and possibly Revenge of the Island but there seemed to be a lot more gross out jokes (Mo Monkeys, Mo Problems) being a big offender, they even resorted to poop jokes (so did AS). Fart jokes and such are only really good when it involves such torture of another character as seen in Tri-Armed Triathalon and if you use to much of it, it becomes annoying. As said earlier, Max provided some good humor and had some good one-liners but I can't really think of any other notable sources.

Finally, the challenges. Before I watched the season I heard the challenges were great and better than the other most recent seasons....boy, was I disappointed. We got a reused truth or dare and talent show and really random challenges that gave me the impression the team has run out of ideas. A greasy obstacle course holding pigs? Getting coins from monkeys? Drinking expired meat shakes? What? Now Total Drama has never been the most realistic show ever but the challenges were at least kind of something you can actually find in the real world and they were made interesting without being so crazy.

All in all I didn't hate the season but I didn't love it eiether, it was just okay, nothing special.