Thread:UnderdogFan28/@comment-4742462-20151222052712/@comment-26910203-20151225002342

Scarlett Fever's essentially a representation of how silly Total Drama has gotten over the years. Now I know it was never an extremely realistic show but it was firmly rooted in reality TV in the first three seasons...then the island became radioactive, then there was another artificial robotic island. The whole robotic island thing comes to a head in this episode, we have robotic Chris' and robotic animals rampaging all over the place shooting lasers and craziness and I can't help but feel that this episode was trying too hard to be "epic and "different" like a spy movie.

Alright, now let's get to the plot. The biggest problems I have with the plot is Scarlett's character and the rushed....everything especially the ending. I'll start with Scarlett and why I think she was a bad/misused character. For a "villain" her motive makes sense enough: get the money. Yet her strategy...is nonexistent. She didn't go into the competition knowing that the island was mechanical (not to mention she proabaly wouldn't have discovered it was if not for Max) and she didn't effectively try to get anyone eliminated but Max which required sabotaging her own team. I can't see how anyone thinks this strategy was better than Scott's. She literally pulls a 180 in this episode thanks to the plot convenience (because that is what it feels like when she and Max happen to stumble upon the opening for her "plan" that she made up on the spot). The only glimpses of her we got of her possibly being bat-poop crazy is her infuriation with Max and her intimidating Topher (which both seem like relatively normal things to do). I guess that one comment in This is the Pits! does but still....

The ending of the episode is horrible too, Scarlett the quiet braniac is convinced by a fake Chris that is obviously not Chris so that Sugar of all people can take her down. What the heck? The writers wrote themselves in a corner (which maybe was a corner from the start with Scarlett's plan, as if she would know there would be a self-destruct button on the island too...) The whole concept raises so many questions too. How did Scarlett know there was a control room and not just a remote? Why does the island have a self destruct sequence mode? Why did she think the other contestants wouldn't get in her way (which they obviously did)? Why couldn't Chris do it himself and think that the contestants weren't crazy (I mean you had contestants like Max and Leonard)? The Sugar and Sky conflict/team was annoying. The best thing about this episode was probably Shawn and Jasmine (and Shawn beating all those bots was silly)

This is why I hate this episode.