User blog comment:ThomasVeggieDramaFan/Pahkitew Island: One Year Later/@comment-24971793-20150628224744/@comment-4742462-20150628231657

You pretty much summed up why some people shallowly prefer the 3rd cast over the 2nd one despite the latter being more realistic (you left out Cameron by the way).

They were, but those conversations were pushed back by all the people who were praising it and wearing rose-tinted shades to boot. If anything, the flaws are being acknowledged more now than a year ago.

I thought the first episode for The Ridoncolus Race was decent for the most part, but I've never really been aboard the hype train for it either and I'm glad to see I'm not the only one. I think everyone's jumping the gun with it just based on the premiere episode alone... A decent beginning episode doesn't mean the rest of the season will automatically have the same level of quality. Just look at All-Stars for example... I'm still trying to form a real opinion on most of them because they were dumped out all at once not to mention we don't know anything about a few of them still (like Miles and the Goths).