User blog comment:Smv21/My Total Drama Season Rankings/@comment-4742462-20180516000710/@comment-1037137-20180517020919

Divisive as the Surfer Dudes' return may in fact be, that's still got nothing on what an absolute mess TDAS was. Almost nobody discusses TDAS for its merits, but instead for why it just did not work. There was little, if any redeeming quality to TDAS. Certainly not enough to answer for everything that's been said before about it. RR gave us some cool characters, some cool challenges, and managed to stay pretty focused most of the time, so if nothing else the effort that went into making Ridonculous Race is certainly not the same "effort" that was invested in TDAS. And that worked out in its favor.