User blog comment:MegamanZero0002/Battle Of The Newbies: TDRI vs TDPI/@comment-27329394-20140720171450

TDPI has the edge for me. There were several aspects I liked more in TDPI than TDRoTI's cast

TDPI had more entertaining elimination fodder in Beardo and Leonard. Compared to B and Staci, respectively, I found them actually funny or interesting. B is OK but he isn't exactly memorable. They also had better antagonists. Scarlett managed to pull off an evil scheme, whereas Mal never got around to it. Sugar and Scott were sort of similar in that they are villains that are also comic relief, but unlike RoTI Scott Sugar was actually developed as a character and, in my opinion, was actually funny. Also she didn't do that dumb team killing strategy. It also had better relationships. Well, relationship, that is. Jasmine and Shawn were really well done in my opinion, and still managed to get development as characters while managing to get a great relationship that continued to develop them. I despise Skave about as much as Zoke, but I haven't really thought a relationship was this well done since TDI. Finally, I felt like they knew the direction they were going with almost every character and they all felt like they were "in character" and developed throughout the entire season (except for maybe Dave since his character started to get very Sky dependent). RoTI didn't really have this feel.

One thing I think the RoTI cast has over them though is more varied interactions in my opinion. While the interactions in TDPI were good, they were a lot more limited. For example, Topher only talked to Chris until episode 6 and Scarlett only talked to Max until episode 8. In particular, Jo, Scott, and Cameron had at least one interaction with most people before leaving, while I can't say the same about anyone in TDPI aside from Jasmine.