User blog comment:SwankyZircon/Alternate eliminations for TDAS/@comment-26967945-20150910221614

Eliminating Lindsay as early as they did was a real shame.

Bringing MPD into the show to begin with was asking for a bit of controversy, but it was handled a lot better in TDROTI than in All-Stars. Making him exclusively evil, and having the reset button thing was...problematic to say the least. And the fact that Zoey was oblivious to all of it for so long, despite knowing about Mike's condition, brought her down. Having them as the final 2 set up a predictable 'Mike beats Mal, happily ever after' scenario, which didn't leave much room for suspense, and the fact that it came down to 2 lovers basically left us without drama.

The Courtney episode was the Courtney episode, blah. So much retribution and a whole character arc thrown out over a chart...

And as disappointed as I was in these developments, I was particularly disappointed in Sierra's treatment. After coming down off of her Cody kick a bit towards the end of TDWT, it came back with avengeance here. Since she's a super fan, she would have been the one most likely to know about the incoming TDROTI cast, and could have used that to her advantage. She basically could have been the intel, the mediator, or the alliance proprietor, and instead, went back to TDWT-episode-one Sierra, except with googly eyes for Cameron, because their (his/Cody's) personalities were similar enough. Her elimination also seemed contrived, since the villains got to pick who they kicked - Sierra, at that point, wasn't the biggest threat on the Heroes team. I know Cameron probably convinced the others to boot her, since he was basically terrified of her in the end, but it didn't seem like a good strategy call.

Wow, I wrote more than I expected to. Overall, a lot of the plots in All-Stars felt really forced. The love triangle continued to get too much attention, and making Mike evil was an excuse to make him go further than he did in TDROTI. The season still had its moments, particularly early on, but there was too much going to the wrong places in comparison to some of the previous and subsequent seasons.