User blog comment:TDWTisAWESOME/Your "Official" endings./@comment-1888444-20151022234933

I'm going to go with what is official to me, not what I think the producers intended--I think in most cases they really did cut both endings with an intent to be impartial.

For TDI and TDA, I would have been happy with either winner. These are the only seasons for which that is the case.

TDI: Gwen. Honestly, I could go either way on this one--both Gwen and Owen are great--but (a) the idea of Owen winning a foot race is absurd to me, and (b) Gwen played with heart and was an incredible underdog that I wanted to see get her due after being bullied by Heather all season.

TDA: Beth. Duncan deserved it much more in season 1--this season he spent being even nastier to Harold and arguing with Courtney. Beth is all-around great. Although I do enjoy Duncan as one of the more complex characters in the series, so I wouldn't have been upset if either of them won.

TDWT: Heather. Honestly, Alejandro and Sierra were not great characters, and I was bummed they both made it to the final 4. It always burned me a little that we had been following most of these characters over three seasons, and the two newbies waltzed into the finals! (Also, critiques of Alejandro being a 'god-player' are dead on.) I also prefer not to let total villains win, so I preferred Heather as the scrappy anti-hero.

TDRI: Cameron. Classic underdog story. Lightning was funny, but not great as a character--his ending was actively disappointing to me because he didn't at all deserve to win.

TDAS: Zoey. Nothing made sense about this nonsense-burger of a season, including the 2 finalists, but what I am sure of is that Mike/Mal/etc was the absolute worst thing to happen to the series, so Zoey is my winner by default.

TDPI: Sky. I got tired of Shawn's one-note, absurd zombie schtick very, very, very, very quickly. Sky, Sugar, and Dave (and possibly, honestly, Leonard) were the only worthwhile characters on this season. Sky was on her game all season long and deserved it far more than a guy who mostly sat in a tree rambling to himself.

TDRR: Cadets! Cadets! CADETSSSS! They played hard and had arguably one of the best arcs of the season (far better than the surfers). Didn't mind that the surfers made it to the finale, but wasn't a fan of them getting there because of some arbitrary rule--wish they had just won fair and square and the other teams had gone home a week earlier each (their arcs had been played out anyway). The cadets are the best characters in the history of the show and will always be winners in my heats.