User blog comment:TylerSurvivorFan/What If Ella Received All the Hate?/@comment-25297892-20141017223206/@comment-25297892-20141018105813

13 episodes is just the reason both 2nd and 3rd generations gave us in generally great characters unable to shine as they deserved because there was no enough time for a proper development (the only developed in TDROTI were Mike and Cameron and in Pahkitew we had Jasmine and Shawn,as a couple and single characters) while others were purely wasted (Dawn and Ella are an example) and the rest was just there sometimes with plot hole (Lightning,Anne Maria and Sugar:no development and the same all the time) sometimes with lack of characterization (see Zoey,Dave,Sky,Dakota..).

Pahkitew brought an interesting cast but suffered certainly of this aspect:Samey was cut just when she was starting to develop alone from her (useless) sister,Sky and Dave were rushed and wrecked,Scarlett was shadowed by Max all the time until she bursted out revealing her true colours just to be eliminated (worst villain ever,here:no eliminations caused and no strategy went right...Genius),Ella revolved around Sugar acting like an oddball fairy princess,Topher aimed to replace Chris but was fooled in only 8 episodes (and he had just stolen the phone of Chris!)...and Sugar and Max were literally plotless (arguably) comic relief that went too far in the competition.

So,about females developed the only one were Jasmine (having friendships,devlopping her crush on Shawn,changing her mind about kindness but near the end of Pahkitew getting over the mistakes of Shawn and providing a good example of loyalty and moral character) and Samey (finding the courage to riot your sister even if you believed all this time to be more inferior than her,ridding off her giving back the same medicine,having finally a true friend as Jasmine,trying to become more determinated and conscious of her skills....this until Amy returned and ruined everything). Sugar was the same lucky fat snooty oddball all the time,showing no kind of remorse for her actions and stepping up on the gross rank more and more episode by episode. Ella had a short plot hole with Dave but mostly revolved around her attempts to befriend Sugar..now,seriously,what a shame of plot is this? Scarlett was a copycat of Brainzilla and stayed inactive behind Max all the time:now,how an evil Genius like her wasted all her cleverness only to rid off such a clown instead of using her strategies on the other contestants?Also,you wanna tell me she had a great plan taking the control of the Island?NOPE.This wasn't planned,she just found the opportunity but as everybody else she ignored from the beginning the fact Pahkitew was robotical,and CHRIS GAVE HER THE ULTIMATE REMOTE CONTROL in Scarlett Fever. Sky was the same love flat girl as Zoey,and if she seemed to develop from being an olympian achievers focused only on the game from a true girl recognizing the importance of love and friendship than victory,she literally erased all this impression in the heat finale.

Now,about the future seasons:Season Six will return to have 26 episodes as RR.