User blog comment:Fire Eater/Call to Save Total Drama/@comment-23587492-20131203155526/@comment-1037137-20131203193511

But HeatBombastic, with all due respect the inconsistencies and factual errors are jarring in this latest season and have become a major complaint. Continuity is not a suggestion, it's a necessity. It comes off as careless when you can't maintain something as simple as factual accuracy and create plotholes.

Not developed as well as they could've been. And again, character development made TDI a gold mine of awesome. The later seasons don't accomplish this like TDI did.

It's a running gag that's been going on since TDWT. I'm not strictly talking about All-Stars here. And nobody likes that gag.

No, they started disappearing in Action and World Tour. The mature themes are needed again from TDI.

That's not a fact, man. You may not be bothered by the inconsistent portrayals, but a lot of people are, okay?

Abandoned plot points (Like DJ's illegal alliance, Justin being a villain, Duncan wrestling with whatever was left of his "nice guy" side, Heather never forming an alliance with Harold in TDA like she said she would, etc.) make this stuff seem pointless and add just more clunkiness to the rest of the plot's pacing.

No, HeatBombastic. In TDI and in some respects TDROTI, almost everybody got a good amount of focus and exposure. You can keep ditching everybody else just so you can focus on the same six or eight people, or else there's no point in upkeeping an ensemble cast of nearly 40 (Soon to be 50) people.

Well, I liked TDROTI, but we still need a 26-episode season again.

Repeating what? It's an issue, okay?

TDA was rife with stupid or lame challenges, and TDAS has a similar problem on a more occasional basis.

Why are you getting down on me for my complaint about the show getting mean-spirited? It IS mean-spirited, blast it. I mean it always was, but since Action and World Tour it's grown to a level that goes past being funny and just to being straight up cruel. That's how I feel, and that's what I have observed. You're telling me TDAS does not fit those circumstances? Come on here, let's be honest with what's been going on here.

It was too abundant, that's the problem, especially in TDWT and TDA. We seriously don't need anymore of that level.

Whatever, the spoilers became too much in this season, regardless of what we were thinking or hoping for individually. No point in airing something you're just going to give every next event away to, you understand?

I put a lot of effort into this blog, and I tried to cover the whole scope of the problem.

I am not a hypocrite. HeatBombastic, if you don't agree, that's one thing. But don't call me a hypocrite, that is not true. If you read between the lines, you would see that I think the mean-spirited level seen lately drags down the show's fun factor, and makes all the comedic suffering just suffering rather than comedic. It's cruel and crass what they're doing, and unpleasant to watch, it needs to be toned down. Otherwise you're just watching a show full of nothing but fury. And for something supposedly rebranded as a kids show, this is bad. TDI was mean-spirited, but never like his, and yet it still worked in its mature themes coexisting with the light-hearted almost perfectly. That's something the newer seasons failed to do.

How about you just say you disagree? You think I'm wrong, I think you're wrong. Differences of opinion, we're just going to have to agree to disagree. But I don't appreciate being made to sound like I'm a fool for holding the opinion I do, it's my opinion, but I also tried my best to account for the complaints so many others have that you don't necessarily hold true. But I've seen them. I'm not naive.