User blog comment:Curshburger/Total Drama Action Review/@comment-11883116-20180921231639/@comment-11883116-20180922004152

I see. TDA (and overall) Courtney is quite a base-breaking character. Many love her, many hate her. I'm personally among the fans of her TDA version. It ties with her TDI version as the best Courtney for me. I predict you're going to mark every TDA episode with Courtney as "awful episode" just because it has Courtney in it then. If so, that'd be the opposite from me. For me the season became way better once Courtney debuted, as the first half was rather boring without any major threats.

To be fair, that was just a one time goof in Riot On Set. Other episodes show the voting device with the options to vote correctly. Even if we took that animation goof seriously in that episode, voting for someone from the Gaffers or for Bridgette/Geoff would most likely just waste your vote.

Using the opportunity, let me comment on some things from One Million Bucks, B.C.

"and the writers don’t really give any reason as to why this happens other than “girl’s got a badbutt lawyer”."

Well, that is the reason and that explains it. I don't know what else you need. However, I gotta admit that I have no idea how Courtney's lawyers managed to get Courtney all those privileges. I mean, allowing her to debut on a season she originally didn't qualify for is already enough. Maybe the right to not be eliminated in her first episode of the season, so she'd have a better chance to make up for her unfair elimination. But everything else? Seems unnecessary and Courtney should know it would only make the others target her more.

"In addition to that, the tiebreaker scene between the two of them is kinda confusing to me. I mean, the two of them almost share a kiss, and then Courtney hits Duncan where a man should not be hit"

Welcome to love-hate relationships. They can be pretty messy, although some can be very well-written. As for this scene, Courtney is a competitive person who prefers winning over boys.