User blog comment:ThomasVeggieDramaFan/Pahkitew Island: One Year Later/@comment-24971793-20150628224744/@comment-24971793-20150629192047

I don't think realism necessarily makes a character better and there are some decent reasons for ranking the 3rd gen over the second one. Lightning and Scott weren't much better than Zoey, Mike, Staci and Cameron. Jo is controversial. The other characters where basically filler. Ok the characters might be a little more realistic, but does that really matter when it's so hard to care about any of them? The 2nd gen was used poorly and the way a character is used plays an important part into their overall quality.

I don't want to completely write off RR. I liked the first episode, it was decent. But I just had this feeling as if it was unfinished. From characters to structure, it felt like a prototype rather than the real thing to me. and I spotted some alarming trends like Owen floating to victory again, most of the fodder duo's being about as obvious as Staci, the adversity twins,... .