User blog comment:TDFanatic52/Which is better- Island or World Tour?/@comment-1037137-20161201000714

TDI in my opinion, is still vastly better than TDWT in spite of the latter's far greater stakes.

Both seasons do a good job with their respective themes, the summer camp and the competition taking place around the world, they both do these extremely well. And both have a strong variety of challenges that keep both fresh the entire way through, execution and winners notwithstanding. The challenges in both seasons are rarely boring and usually creative, unlike the low energy challenges TDA was littered with.

However, for me it comes back to the characters and plot. And I think World Tour failed miserably at how it handled both constantly. Island may have been the first season, but the interactions are larger, more varied, and often more satisfying. World Tour went out of its way to undermine many of these and even the newer interactions ended up being very dissatisfying. TDI was more consistently plotted, TDWT kept introducing a slew of things like Feral Zeke, Blaineley, DJ's curse, and of course, that moronic love triangle that made it a chore to watch. And they don't measure up well against the better plots like Heather and Alejandro's romantic rivalry. There's a lot of dumb things in TDI but at least it's consistent and doesn't have quite as many throwaway plots. Plus, the resolutions are usually much better. And the character development? Vastly better than TDWT's, save for Alejandro and Heather, and perhaps Sierra, Noah and Tyler.

World Tour has a much more competitive setup, but it also began to abuse the drama quota badly, and that meant abusing the characterizations and a much more scatterbrained story. Island is the first season, hard to judge the season that is still establishing everything, but Island is still the superior season. World Tour is much flashier, but MUCH less enjoyable.