Thread:UnderdogFan28/@comment-4742462-20151204023419/@comment-4742462-20151205044349

UnderdogFan28 wrote: @Thomas, I would watch it to judge for yourself anyways and if you hate it like me at least you can say you saw it :/. Just a question though, did you like any of Ridonculous Race? I'm just wondering because you seem to be quite negative towards the season. I thought a handful of episodes were on par with some Total Drama Island stuff (which has some problems too but is still my favorite now that I've rewatched it again recently). For example, what did you think of episodes  Bjorken Telephone, 'A Tisket, A Casket, I'm Gonna Blow a Gasket, Hawaiian Honeyruin, Hello and Dubai, Shawshank Ridonction, Little Bull on the Prairie, El Bunny Supremo  and  Darjeel With It?

Again, I'll just pull all my teeth out before ever watching it just based on what I've read. I've never seen Sky Fall (another episode where I'd pull my teeth out before watching it) in full either but I tried to last summer only to give up after what I consider to be some of the most painful 10 minutes of my life that I'm ashamed of wasting.

The reason why I hardly explain how I feel about things is because it often takes me too long to try and type my thoughts out. But in this case, I'll try so get ready because this is gonna be a long one.

Bjorken Telephone: Outside of being the first episode where Crimson spoke, nothing else stood out except for the design of the Tip Giver as well as Dwayne's failed attempts of the translation. Honestly, I never really got why this episode is liked all that much as it's very problematic and suffers from forced logic. For example, while others would disagree I find it BS that the Fashion Bloggers didn't do the translation yet still got the tip and didn't get penalized for it. Plus, in retrospect the episode is basically a 20 minute setup for how painfully unwatchable the very next episode would be.

Gasket: Honestly the best episode of this series as well as the only good true Terry McGurrin episode to date (the first episode of Pahkitew Island was decent, but it's clean slate nature makes it hard for me to consider it a real Terry episode). I felt that most of the teams were fine even if I didn't care for a majority of them. But it does have more foreshadowing of how insufferable the Haters would become, the first signs of Nomma/Nemma (a plot that I never cared for but hated more later on) and the destruction of Noah's character in the spinoff, and teams like Stepbrothers & Adversity Twins managing to complete the challenge with little to no explanation (even though they both had this problem for a majority of the season). Still, this episode along with maybe Ridonc n' Roll were the only ones to really feel like something from Island.

Hawaiian Honeyruin: While I do blame Kelly for feeding into why I hated the Mother & Daughter team so much (by being an absolute pushover for 95% of their tired plot), it was so rewarding to see her finally put her b*tch of a daughter in place even if it meant they would get booted very soon. This was also the beginning of the brief stint of the Ice Dancers (whom I never liked, but hated more as the season progressed) being at their most tolerable with them being cursed by the lava rock between now and Zimbabwe before spending the rest of the season nose-diving further and further on my rankings. Those was pretty much two of the only things that stood out in this episode which I thought was mostly boring and another example of a non-elimination when it should've either been an elimination considering the team that was spared or just not happen at all and save all the important info for an actual elimination episode.

Hello and Dubai: Another somewhat dull episode outside of Kelly putting her daughter in place even though it showed how Kelly was still kind of a pushover even in their final episode and how Taylor didn't really develop in terms of not forgiving Kelly. The fact that these two were eliminated here just showed how uninspired and bland their conflict was in terms of how both characters pretty much revolved solely around it compared to similar conflicts of the past where both characters had other purposes and interactions outside of those conflicts. And while I did ultimately did end up liking Kelly in the end (although she's a little low in the 'like' category of my rankings for reasons I've already mentioned), this team was pretty much booted at the right time and I honestly wouldn't care if they never came back again. This episode along with the next one is also the starting point of the Haters becoming the source of 50% of my hatred for the spinoff. Outside of Kelly (as well as the scene with her and Father & Son on the plane), the only other thing that stood out was those who accepted the challenge where they had to play tennis against a Dalek (I'm not a Whovian, but even I got a kick out of that).

And that's all I'm gonna type here for now. I'll try to type out my other thoughts on the remaining four you mentioned later.