User blog comment:Chameleon-Guy/Unpopular Total Drama opinions/@comment-1037137-20140728225227

Island happens to be well written and didn't offput anyone like many of the later sequels have, so yeah it is a highly rated season for good reason.

As for those other elements, there is a right and wrong way to do them, they've all been played up in ways and to levels where they were counterproductive on more than one occasion. And so they need to be handled with a little more balance and care.