User blog comment:Epic~00/Why Total Drama All Stars Was Such An Abysmal Season (PART 3)/@comment-5899967-20140905233535/@comment-31556666-20140905234011

The only reason Mike and Zoey didn't receive a load of focus in the first episode was because we were more being re-introduced to everyone, and we needed an answer to what exactly happened between Courtney and Gwen. In fact, now that I think of it, Zoey only gets focused on more as soon as Mal comes around. But in any case, Mike and Zoey still got more storyline focus and better effort than Gwen or Courtney did because there was slightly more care anyways.