User blog:TheDipDap1234/My opinion about Total Drama Daycare, why I like it and hate it at the same time

So, Total Drama Daycare.. it will be a thing. Nobody's really happy about it and for a pretty good reason. We have been waiting  2 whole years for the show to get renewed, 3 if don't count The Ridonculous Race, and fans were rightfully excited. In the announcement video they didn't give us any hints about the new Total Drama being.. this. Fans are rightfully dissapointed and angry right now, and I have no idea what Fresh was expecting. Yes, we like the fact that we will see the TDI cast again, yes, we like the fact they will be cute kids, yes we like the fact we will get Jude from 6teen and potentially other characters from different shows made by Fresh TV, but that's not the point. Most people wanted the show to continue, to have a proper final season where it felt like everything really did end. There are 2 things that made people feel in love with Total Drama. 1, The characters, and 2, the format. The latter is way more important. Even the people who disliked the ROTI cast have to admit that they were interested in seeing how the people will get eliminated, and who will win. Daycare won't have that. The Ridonculous Race, another spin-off of Total Drama did have a similar format to Total Drama, which is why the fans weren't outraged and were looking forward to seeing Ridonculous Race, even if it wasn't exactly a continuation of the real Total Drama series. With Daycare, you can't really get excited. It won't have eliminations, the the format is pretty much killed. There's nothing to speculate, nothing to theorize, all of the predictions that we made in the past 7 months were for nothing really, and it's dissapointing.



You know, the fact that we had to wait 2 years for the show to get anything was already weird enough. My theory is that Fresh constantly pitched ideas to CN about a new TD season but they rejected all of them. This was the only idea they accepted, and you know it makes a lot of sense why they accepted it. Daycare will be more safe than TD for sure with its format, it will be more relatable to kids because the characters themselves will be kids and not teenagers, the show will not have continuity so it will be easier for kids to follow, it will be 11 minutes long instead of 22 minutes which is something that CN really likes now. The show will be aimed for kids and teens, so it won't be like Baby Looney Tunes, but more like the Powerpuff Girls reboot, Clarance, and other Cartoon Network shows. Total Drama Island had way too many adult jokes in it, and while us fans really liked them, the broadcasters more than likely didn't. You have no idea how much the show got censored here in my country, especially the recent seasons. I wouldn't be surprised if the reason we didn't get another TD or RR was because of that. The problem with Total Drama is that you can't really rerun it that much because of its heavy continuity. If you do, people will get bored with it and won't watch it anymore, no matter what age they are. Teen Titans Go, Gumball, and other CN shows barely have any continuity in them, they are just mindless fun and kids like that. When I was a kid I adored watching the same episodes of cartoons like Ed, Edd n Eddy or The Powerpuff Girls even if I saw them like 20 times before.

It's sad to say but it's unlikely CN/Teletoon will ever give a chance to Total Drama or the Ridonculous Race again. If Daycare fails, the whole franchise will be done with. If it will succeed, well what will happen? They renew it for one more season? That will mean even more waiting for another season of TD or RR. If they do renew TD eventhough Daycare was a success, the kids of today will be incredibly confused by it and won't understand what will be going on, why are the kids now grown up, why are they getting eliminated, etc. Unless TD and/or RR gets picked up by Netflix, or Adult Swim, or any other TV station, it's more than likely we will never get a proper continuation of the 2 shows anymore, and that to me is the worst thing about Daycare. It ruined the future of Total Drama, not Total Drama itself as some others claim it did.

Well, let's talk about Daycare itself. I actually kinda like it. If you know me, you know that I love the TDI cast and character interactions, which is why the TDA and TDWT reward challenge episodes didn't bother me at all. The characters and the comedy in them were just way too good in my opinion, especially in TDA. This show will have no eliminations, so every episode will be filled with character interactions. I always liked the idea of seeing how the characters looked and acted like when they were kids, which is why Kikaigaku's comic  is one of my favorite comics of all time. I will check this show out and hopefully won't be dissapointed. The worst thing it can do is make the characters way too annoying, or steal ideas from Kikaigaku's comic. Plz don't make Owen, or any other character constantly s**t or pee his/her pants because that will be just lame and disgusting toilet humor that no one really wants. The fact that 6teen characters, and potentially other characters from other cartoons made by FreshTV will appear in this is a plus. I like how they're throwing a bone to 6teen fans, and it will be nice to see them interact with the TD characters, non-canon or not.



Now let me give you my opinion about the character designs. So far we have the design of Beth, Izzy, Courtney, Chef, Duncan, Owen and Jude. The female characters so far look cuter. Jude looks okay, him being naked in the picture further proves this show won't be like Baby Looney Tunes which is good. Owen looks alright, of course he still has the canadian logo on his shirt, they want people to know this show is canadian. Chef looks good as always, but Duncan.. he looks like a smug kid that likes to cause trouble, just like his original self was, so the characters will mostly be in character which is good. I REALLY hate his gigantic forehead, it just looks weird to me, and because of that he's the only character so far who's design doesn't click with me very much. Courtney's cute, but looks a little too much like a Grojband character, and i'm not a huge fan of that. Izzy and Beth look awesome, and it's cute to see the girls in different outfits. The background itself also reminds me more of Grojband than Total Drama. That tree just doesn't look like it belongs in the Total Drama. Not much else to say.

Welp, that's it for now. Gotta say this is not the best time to be a Total Drama fan. I feel bad for the people who set their expectations high, and ended up not getting what they really wanted. This is actually a pretty good representation of Christmas. A kid wants Santa to give him a car for christmas, will believe he will get one because he believes in Santa but ends up getting a pair of jeans instead.