User blog comment:Total Drama Wiki! Wars/Week of January 12, 2014/@comment-23995441-20140112092711/@comment-1376932-20140112231501

Not at all. Island was a great season, but lacked sufficiently in development. That being said, it wasn't really supposed to be a season for character development; it mainly focused on character interaction, but almost all of the contestants were the same from start to finish.