User blog comment:CourtneyIsAQueen/Letting Total Drama die/@comment-24259216-20181105151032

Total Drama got cancelled, in my opinion, because of 3 different things.

1. The writing deteriorated every season. RR was a cute revival for decent writing, and was pretty good. But ROTI-PI were just so poorly written. Terrible plots, wasted potential, mediocre eliminations and characters.

2. Length that it took to release a new season was long. I know animating is a long process but they kept Total Drama going almost every year when TDI-TDWT aired. The hiatus from TDRI and TDI probably caused people to lose interest in the show, and TDRI’s cast probably drove og fans away a bit. After RR, we waited 4 years just to learn on a reddit forum that the show never had plans to return. The fandom lost so many members over years of nothing from the creators.

3. Finally, the treatment of fans. People probably had issues with being led on with plots that crashed miserably (Courtney and Gwen in AS), the neglect to give us information that was correct (TDR mess), and overall just no care at all what fans thought. They’d constantly reply with “we dont take fan requests” even though the fans are the ones you should be listening to. They always took the steering wheel and whenever we told them to turn left, they turned right. Obviously CN has a huge part in this, but Total Drama was BIG and had a lot of potential. They should have moved to a different network if there were so many problems with CN, because tbh I believe a network would have definitely been interested.