User blog comment:Duncan 99 New/Ends the real TOTAL DRAMA with TDWT?/@comment-24952355-20150824203904/@comment-1037137-20150824215814

It is, isn't it? XP I actually did not come to hate Beardo in the one episode he was on, lol. Still fodder, but he was okay. Zoey on the other hand, two seasons and I swear she only got stupider.

Sounds like a fair enough assessment to me. I'm not disputing that 26 episodes grants more opportunities for development at all, it's just common sense that 26 episodes is a better number to work with if you want better stories and better development. Still with 13 episodes they should be able to do better than they have been. It's clear that the newer seasons just don't get what made the earlier ones that much better for what they had.

If you ask me, TDI was the only one to find the right balance. Every other season has had some major shortcoming to undermine that. Because TDA and TDWT still have a strong share of BS in them.