User blog comment:DeathBolt/Worst Moment In Total Drama History/@comment-1037137-20131106091642/@comment-1037137-20131106171609

No, that's not how it was.

Tyler and Noah were among the characters who were supposed to be receiving greater development than several of the regulars from the prior two seasons. Owen is only comic relief now, he was becoming much less interesting to watch. Noah and Tyler though both are infinitely more entertaining and do have their own stories.

And the love triangle was a mistake, nobody deserved to suffer for the mistakes of the few.

Those three were not filler in TDI, they were three-dimensional characters with defined personalities and big roles to play. They were not used well, if used at all, in the later seasons. In TDI Noah and Tyler could easily be considered filler, but that was not the case in TDWT.