Thread:TRRFan6/@comment-26986696-20171013152704/@comment-25285054-20171223060754

Negativity is always something I've always had a problem with in the Total Drama fanbase but I think in this case the bitter taste in people's mouths is quite justified. It's not the concept I have an issue with inherently, mind you; I actually think putting a weird spin on Total Drama like this is actually quite a fun concept.

The problem is what it says about the state of the franchise, the people behind Total Drama and how catastrophically out of touch they are. Creating bizarre spinoffs is something you do when a franchise is in a good place and people just want more and more of it; it's something you do only when you have breathing room. Doing something totally out of the norm when you struggle to even get greenlit anymore is a big risk; the kind of risk you only make when you're crippling irresponsible.

Moreover, it shows utter apathy for what they think about their audiance and fanbase. They made videos specifically targetting their ravenous fans, revealing nothing but the fact that it was a new season with the old characters people liked. They could've said it was different from what we're expecting or even flat out admit it's not a traditional season of Total Drama, yet choose to excite everyone on the basis that it really was more of the show they loved. It takes disasterous naivety to assume people will be pleased with something drastically different from what they asked for even if you do absolutely nothing to brace them for it.

So overall, what displeases me is not the fact that they're doing this, but the disasterous way they decided to do it. I'm not saying Total drama will die or we'll never get a proper new season; there's a good number of ways this could play out after all. But to say it best..it's a shame this wasn't a prank because it would've been a dang good one