User blog comment:KrispyBaconator/Unpopular TD Opinions/@comment-4742462-20170615210746/@comment-4742462-20170616165210

@Epic, The Ridonculous Race actually does have more effort put into it than Pahkitew Island, but only because the latter had no effort whereas the former only had like 5% effort. There's less effort here than in All-Stars because:


 * Leonard is back only because they were lazy and wanted to cut corners.
 * Most of the teams, characters and conflicts are just less interesting rehashes of already existing ones with many of them being worse (Daters/Haters = Duncney, Stepbrothers/Mother & Daughter = Amy & Samey, Carrie = Zoey & Bridgette, MacArthur = Jo, etc.)
 * A good number of plots end up being simply unresolved (Nomma/Nemma aside from that one line in Bahamarama) or lazily wrapped up (Stepbrothers & Daters/Haters)
 * They forgot to give the main "Protagonists" any kind of development until their last few episodes.
 * Nearly all the teams follow the same formula: Next to no development until their last two or three episodes.
 * The finale we ended up getting basically being a rehash of the first episode challenge wise.
 * They didn't even bother to hide the fact that everything from Best Friends' elimination through the finale was likely due to Surfer Dudes being finalists being something they were forced to do.

@Scrawny, OK let me see if I can put it this way. The only reason why some people might say that Pahkitew Island was good when it wasn't is because they're afraid to admit that the series can still do bad even after All-Stars