User blog comment:Gogogadget831/Every Episode of Total Drama Reviewed: Episode 85 - Backstabbers Ahoy!/@comment-1037137-20150809183922

This is not one of my absolute least favorites, in fact about 3/4s of the episode hold up really well. The challenge was good, most of the campers were good, I absolutely love seeing Bridgette no matter what the situation, and Dawn did shine in the challenge and as far as I'm concerned it established that if given more time, she could've been a fairly strong competitor. She did have some really great lines too. And this was probably the episode where Scott's villainy was cast in its strongest light for a bit.

However, it is one of my least favorites of this season, I know Dawn was overhyped going into this, but her leaving is a big disappointment in this season, because I genuinely wanted to see more of her and learn more of her. And I did find her elimination brutal, you could've booted her without shoving her into a garbage bag, that's not much funnier than the Flush of Shame in the following season. Both enormously unpleasant and unfunny. I felt bad for her. Plus, Bridgette's cameo was way too short, she just disappears after being flung back onto the dock and then, nothing. So it was a deeply dissatisfying cameo, Bridgette is still a character I really miss and appreciate. And yes, Chris isn't anything to praise here, but this still is not the season where he's at his most intolerable. And looking back........Yeah. I guess you can call Zoey a bit hypocritical about Dawn, even if she didn't outright reject Dawn. What brands of weirdness are acceptable to her and what aren't? Not that Mike's a character I have any remaining sympathy for now, good point on that last line, just spit it out, man. She's your crush.

Anyway, this is not one of the worst episodes of the series. But the ending makes it one of the bigger letdowns of this season. Still, I have to be fair. It really is not that bad.