User blog comment:Glenn31/Character Appreciation - Week 17: Duncan/@comment-25474566-20170424230150

Finally we've reached this week. I honestly don't know how to begin with this, but as some people may know, Duncan is overall my favourite character (I mean, just take a look at my propic or at my nickname and you'll understand everything). The first time I saw Duncan on screen (during the seek and find challenge of TDI, where Trent was eliminated, sorry I don't remember the name) I didn't pay too much attention. Yeah, he seemed cool and enjoyable, but there were other characters I just cared much more about (like Owen or Gwen). Then I started following the series step by step, restarting with the first episode and then watching the second season TDA. Duncan became more interesting to me. The stereotype of the bad rebel guy, who tends to break the rules and likes to think differently than the others is well-known by a lot of people and maybe a little overused but...it worked! At least, to me. I found myself on Duncan. Watching him acting in the first two seasons was, in a certain sense, mirroring myself. I'm obviously not a bully or that type of guy, certainly, but the way he acted and the way he was thinking was litterally conquering me and explaining my personality somehow. I liked how Duncan was just a little good guy with a golden heart inside. I liked how Duncan was acting like a solo player but at the same time he just needed someone with him. I liked litterally all of his moments with Courtney and his friends Geoff, DJ (who unfortunately as for now aren't so friends of him) and Owen.

Then World Tour appearead. The hype was driving me crazy. Sadly Duncan was (apparently) eliminated during after first two episodes. Even now I feel bad about it. However, as the episodes passed, I began..."forgetting" about Duncan? Don't know litterally how to explain. I was just starting to lose my care about him, just like the first time I saw him. Fortunately he came back. Well...not so fortunately at the same time. I didn't like te Gwuncan and as for now I don't like it at all. The kiss between the two in the Confessional was just good only for Tyler to see them. Greece's Pieces is in my opinion Duncan's worst episode ever. Just how it begins he acts completely different than he is supposed to. This thing continues through the end and, don't get me wrong, but during the elimination I was hoping for his goodbye. At least, I thought, it would have been better than seeing a new Duncan. The Ex-Files wasn't that good too. But Duncan, somehow, made it to the final five and in the end he saved himself. I loved his conflict with Alejandro, which I think is probably even better than his rivalry with Harold.

At the end of World Tour my opinion on Duncan didn't change so much but...I was a little bit disappointed. I mean, I can get why would you break up with Courtney, but at least do it without cheating on her! Something that disgusts me someway. Would have been All-Stars better for him?

In my opinion? NO!

Nah, joking. Yes, it would have. Personally talking. All Stars began with him still dating with Gwen and ending with him saying hello to jail. Not a so-nice end, huh? Well, his arc ricycled some things from the previous seasons, this is something even I can't deny. But, the way the things were put together, seemed just more...appealing to me? I don't know, but I felt like there was a new side of Duncan. A return to the old bully and yet a new personality. The only thing I was wishing for that there wasn't was a possible friendship/conflict with Scott. Hope we'll get that in future.

Reading this you could sum up that I liked more the two first two seasons of Duncan than the last two? Yeah, but not only. Despite being World Tour his worst so far, despite being a little changes and despite getting a bad ending in AS...I just can't hate this guy. I always find him rootable, even with his cons. He remembers of me so much that I can't litterally be mad at him. Oh yes, I'm a Duncan fan and I can't hide it!

Best Season: Total Drama Island.

Best Episode: Can't choose. Dodgebrawl, Basic Straining, Hook Line and Screamer, Wawanakwa Gone Wild, Top Dog, The TDA Finale, Walk Like an Egyptian Part 1, Niagara Brawls, You Regatta Be Kidding Me

Best Moment: Leading his team to victory in Dodgebrawl, joking with Courtney during If You Can't Take the Heat, kissing her in Basic Straining and winning TDA...oh yep...every moment against Chef