Thread:Fire Eater/@comment-1037137-20140121052431/@comment-1037137-20140203045856

Well for starters.........

Action did not take advantage of its setup at all. 90% of the challenges were cliched, uninteresting and worst of all, boring. Very few of them had any energy, cleverness, or tension.

The reward challenges sucked because most of the rewards had no plot relevance and were cheap throwaway jokes.

This season marked the start of a long and horrible trend in character derailment and character inconsistency. WIth everyone getting flanderized and portrayed negatively to great extents, many fan favorites of Island losing favor and fans due to being turned into idiots who can't manage their own affairs or into downright unpleasant people under extremely questionable and often contrived circumstances.

Way too much focus on romantic drama, something that World Tour is also extremely guilty of, to the point where entire wars erupted in the cast and distracted from the storyline, and just made all participants in said dramas look extremely bad and derailed.

And it's for those reasons that Action and even moreso World Tour are extremely mean-spirited seasons. They're not fun because they decided to focus more on conflicts rather than relationships, friendships, rivalries, and the stories. It all seemed to be more about how much flamethrowing the characters could dish out at each other to no conclusive or satisfying outcome. Nobody gets a happy ending or bright side on this show anymore in either the endings or when they are eliminated. In fact the endings often do end on a low, low note.

And speaking of which as others have pointed out the eliminations also lack tension and became painfully predictable over time. That said, moving on.......

Oh yeah, no female winners, another thing to dwell on.......

And Action and All-Stars on top of forgetting characters who were very well-liked also forget their own subplots. For example, Heather's possible alliance with Harold which went nowhere, DJ's illegal alliance with Chef, Courtney and Gwen making up only for it to get nuked again just like in TDWT, among others.

Also, repeating old plotlines, which include DJ wussing out for two seasons in a row, constantly raping the same characters (Gwen, Duncan, Courtney being prime examples) for the same tired drama, constant focus on the same people each season, eliminating Bridgette early twice in two seasons in a row, repeating Zoey and Mike's struggling romance but not giving it any added meat or fresh angle in TDAS when it had already been done and in a much better manner in TDROTI, once again building and destroying Gwen and Courtney's friendship again for no real reason or purpose in both TDWT and TDAS, among other repeated threads..........

Extremely unfunny gags like Feral Zeke or Owen's fart jokes..........

The list goes on and on and on and on.