User blog comment:BlooKaboom/Why so people like TDPI?/@comment-26910203-20160628013111

I actually kind of agree with you about the season but not at all for the reasons you listed. However, I definitely don't agree that the writing is so much better than ROTI's (which is another mediocre season) unlike the people below me. The unrealisticness of it didn't really bother me.

The problem with the short seasons is that they always feel rushed, the only characters with good development were Shawn and Jasmine. Samey/Amy was solved in basically an episode and a Blast from the Past essentially nullifies the "development" Samey had gotten in its entirety, Sky and Dave's development was focused mostly around each other and we all know how that turned out....an absoulte disaster. Scarlett pulls a 180 in Scarlett Fever after the "development" would suggest she would become another manipulator a la Heather or Alejandro but nope, she goes bat**** crazy....and her plan the whole time was to wait for something such as a self-destruct button so she could strike and reveal her true colors? REALLY? From the moment she entered the competition?

Other characters (that weren't the gimmicky early outs) such as Max, Ella and Topher were completely flat, the latter having little to no interaction with the rest of the contestants. Sugar was an absolute joke of an antagonist (Sky Fall anyone?) and there seemed to be many dumb or poorly written segments of even the better episodes of the season. For example, Scarlett Fever one of the best episodes of PI had a horribly rushed ending where Scarlett somehows falls for Max and a Chris robot.

There was an overeliance on gross humor as well that made it feel as if Brunch of Discustingness or I Triple Dog Dare You was stretched out throughout the whole season from grease and pig-farts to poop-flinging monkeys to Sky burping into Dave's face I sometimes wondered if the season was written by 5 year olds at heart.