Thread:Stryzzar/@comment-1037137-20150111211426/@comment-1037137-20150127225156

So I heard, you guys just celebrated Australia Day, right? Got wind of it on DA, hope you all had a great day. :)

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It's far more than "haters gone hate", we have legitimate concerns about what's happening to the show and the direction it's taking. Anyone who implies otherwise probably should look back and what have been the most prevalent concerns and complaints over the years, and how TDAS just happened to accentuate and vindicate those concerns. These have been longstanding problems even since the end of TDI, and TDAS made it glaringly clear that such concerns are fully justified, as the failure to keep any of these elements in check led to something that has virtually no redeeming value at all; it should never have come to this point. Any other series would've been flat out killed by this. But because Total Drama is a series that has a great concept that can be executed superbly as seen with TDI (And I suppose with TDPI), and because it has given us a lot of great characters naturally we're not going to just give up as you stated. A great idea with great casts deserves a far better treatment than what we've been getting.

Yes, this is a major case in which they completely misread this fandom. Heck, did they even think of the fandom beyond this Zoke glory high this season had banked too much of its unrealized success on? Doesn't look it to me. Again, they were the only section of the fandom who seemed to embrace this season. And that episode still has no purpose in existing for that very reason, because the purpose it was designed for gained us and the series nothing. It was a flat out insulting spectacle that really came off as unnecessarily cruel and crass, and any episode dedicated solely to a character's destruction has no business being made. If that man wasn't going to take this project seriously or was this difficult to work with then I really do hope that he is no longer a part of this crew. I'm not ashamed to say that. Booty-ful as well, no purpose in existing as you said, except to apparently make a complete jack*** out of Gwen, which they most certainly did. That episode has the least amount of defenders among any of the three in the unholy trinity. Should serve as a lesson as to what fans do not want to see in the series. Any of these three. And you just summed up what makes Wreck-ening such an infuriating episode. Who gives a f*** about Mike and Zoey's happy ending when you've pretty gone out of your way to insult every other element fans loved in the series and treated every other character like trash, worse like props, when they're not even popular with the majority in the first place? Complete sellout and a highly inappropriate finish for what didn't turn out to be such a love note at all. What a disgusting excuse for an episode.

I don't know man, I don't know what goes on in the writing room. But they do deserve at least a portion of the blame, along with the producers, creators, directors, and executives. And the writers we're talking about have had bad track records.

Oh well, those films have more merit than any of this crap in TDAS. You are right, even by Regatta, people were like "Screw this" and there were lots of people moaning for the season to end before the trinity started which is further evidence of how much fail this season was. Too bad it didn't end sooner, we might've been spared an inherently more tasteless spectacle in those three episodes.

Bring this reality, this contradiction to their attention. If they're airing this against all of that, then there's a serious problem. I think they should be aware of the controversy that plagues this particular season. Why spread a false message to kids like that? It may be a cartoon, but that's not an excuse. Even kids' shows need to watch what they say.

I will never understand the appeal of it, it's too awkward, too random, too rushed, and too stupid to really be taken as seriously as some have taken it. But thankfully, more people seem to realize just how random it truly was regardless of how they view it. I really cannot understand what the hell their deal is with Courtney. Say what you will about her, but this kind of inconsistency is unacceptable. They actually were doing a decent job getting her back on track and it really was looking like she was finally getting a meaningful role this time in the season, if you can work past the Scourtney thing. But then they strike it down and do everything to make her downright unsympathetic again out of literally nowhere. Not only did they kill one of the only plots in the season to get anything close to a meaningful focus with any real development, but they also ended up achieving the opposite effect, provoking further outrage at how bad the character treatments have become, even if there were still a lot of people who did not sympathize for her in her final outcome. But there were tons of people on both sides who refused to defend it or at the least admitted that there was cause to be mad about it. Indeed, these writers have not been on the same page because this among other plots seems to be a violent and FUBAR clash of priorities. No one had any productive outcome in mind for anything in this season. Plot after plot was tossed, and the one plot to get a resolution was the wrong place to have invested the bulk of their energies in.

Two tropes that could sum up this entire clusterf***. There is not a single valid defense for any of this crap, this was a dumping ground for their worst ideas. Well now that they've gotten all of that out of their systems, there's no excuse for any further repeats of it.

Well, at least that character was dealt with swiftly, glad that was resolved in a way that works for everybody except him. XD