User blog comment:Shadowshroom/Character:Mike/@comment-5221692-20151228012534/@comment-5221692-20160102025713

@Truteal  "Fresh TV thought the main demo (6 to 12 year olds) would accept it"

They shouldn't have been thinking about it at all because it shouldn't have been done. 6-12 year olds (or anybody really) shouldn't have had to watch an idea like the RESET BUTTON conclude a season of Total Drama.

It served no other purpose but to rid Mike of his disorder.

Let me spell this out slowly. Mike's "development" ultimately led up to getting rid of his disorder, which quite clearly spelled out that Mike's biggest character flaw was his disorder. If you ask me, someone with an actual disorder, that's a terrible thing to imply. And it wasn't implied subtley. I don't care if that's not what they were trying to do. They did it. Who cares what they thought and who they were trying to please?

It wasn't good writing. It wasn't funny. It wasn't clever. It wasn't right. It happened, and that was wrong. Stop making excuses for them. There are none. They shouldn't have made the reset button. They shouldn't have made MIKE, but I've dealt with that. The reset button is when they went too far.