User blog comment:Epic~00/Why Total Drama All Stars Was Such An Abysmal Season (PART 1)/@comment-22535514-20140825155423

This is actually a very good post.

While I kind of expected Lindsay to be an All Star (she is the next highest ranking competitor overall), it was SO clear that she was fodder just from looking at the cast, but I have an issue with Sierra being in the season for the same reason you do. And Sam is pretty self explanatory. Brick and Leshawna should have replaced Sierra and Sam.

Jocan actually would have done a lot for Jo's character, and teach her how to let someone in as a friend, giving her some great development. Those two would have worked out so well, but they of course toss it in the next episode. What a shame.

Though Gwen was one of the 2 women to not swoon over Al in TDWT, I was interested in this interaction when they brought ip up in the second and third episode. It could have made Duncan and Heather jealous, with Alejandro realizing that he still got his skills. SOMETHING with this. But they toss it for Gwen to dump her boyfriend for a "friend" she never had.

It sucks that both Heather and Jo were used as fodder, but for what? To focus on Zoke, and the dumb triangle no one gaf about anymore. This is a really interesting conflict, and should have went up until at least Episode 5. Heather and Jo overall were a wasted opportunity in this season.

The whole "Ally with Gwen" thing was only for the Heather and Jo conflict, and Alejandro and Heather's relationship.

Jo and Lightning did not make an alliance. They agreed to stay out of one another's way until the merge, which is not the same as working together in an alliance. But an alliance with them would be so good. Why do you say that Lightning's elimination is

I would have to say Duncan getting jealous was only to cause a reason for Gwen and Duncan to break up as horribly as they did. Gwen and Duncan had to find the smallest reason to break up, and them breaking up honestly did not add anything to the season. If they stayed together, nothing would have changed.

You would think the writers witld use Duncan and Mal to make Duncan look like a hero, and to give him some relevance in this season, but they did NOTHING with it. Why do you build something up to not even fully execute it? This was a major missed opportunity. I do think the merges should have stayed at Episode 8 (where ROTI and PI should have merged here as well).

Mal sucks.

I have to say that the first 3 episods are the very best episodes of this season, and the only entertaining part of the season. It seemed like there would be so much going on in these 3 episodes to build up for the seaosn, but we got none of that. Everything was pushed aside for Zoke, Scottney, and the friendship that was never really a friendship.