User blog comment:Smartbook/Random thoughts about Total Drama/@comment-5928665-20140827183406

Here's another opinion many people probably won't agree with:

TDA was the second worst season after TDAS. Yes, worse that TDROTI. I didn't like it first aired and my opinion of it didn't change when I rewatched it last year. It's biggest sin is that it's just so incredibly boring. All those non-elimination episodes were a chore for me to get through and having to stare at the bland film lot setting for 22 episodes didn't really help things. Also, both Duncan and Beth were terrible finalists. Duncan acted like a jerkass for most of the season, didn't win a single post-merge challenge (and there's only two pre-merge challenges that I can directly credit him for winning), and was in the bottom two for three straight elimination ceremonies in a row, only escaping elimination through really cheap asspulls from the writers. Ridiculous. And I find Beth just to be a terribly boring character. I barely remember a single thing she did the entire season aside from babble constantly about her boyfriend.

I rewatched both TDI and TDWT last year as well and both hold up for him. It's not just nostalgia talking. TDA simply sucks.