Thread:TRRFan6/@comment-26986696-20190202204204/@comment-5928665-20190423051911

SirHighAwesomeParty wrote: Of course, as soon as the synopsis for this episode came out, I called everyone EXCEPT Cody coming back alright in the end. He's always been my favorite character personally, and I want to keep having faith he'll be done justice in terms of treatment and involvement when the next season comes around, but after all these episodes of him being forgotten and treated like a joke, that faith keeps dying more and more.

I especially hate it because while I agree that his perverted creepiness in canon was a bad trait, they got rid of it completely here, so his treatment this whole show feels entirely unjustified. Like what's the point of including him, completely changing him and making him more tolerable for people, if they're just going to treat him like garbage in the end, anyways? I've been fine with his treatment in this show. All of his appearance up to Tiger 'Fail' were bad. He was appearing less than any other character (he only spoke in two of the first ten episode) and I was fearful they were just using him as Meg Griffin-type character (or Ezekiel for an in-universe example) who only existed to be crapped on.

Thankfully, that has not panned out. Ever since Paint That A Shame, he's ​​​​​​been appearing much more frequently and has been treated on equal footing with all the other characters. He got quite a bit of screentime in Melter Skelter and he's supposed to play a substantial role in an upcoming episode. I don't mind if he takes occasional abuse (as long as they don't, you know, kill him) since all the characters get abused, not just Cody.

I said after Tiger Fail aired that this version of Cody has no character. I was wrong about that. He's appeared quite a bit more since then and we've gotten a better look at him. He clearly has a personality, it's just completely different than the one he had in the main series. This version is timid, gullible, naive, a little cowardly, and innocent. While I still wish that some aspects of his main series personality had survived so he doesn't feel like an entirely different character, I've warmed up to toddler Cody regardless.

I guess the best comparison to what happened to Cody in TDRR is what Hanna-Barbera did to Fred Jones in A Pup Named Scooby-Doo. They also gave him a completely different personality than he had in the original series so didn't even feel like the same character anymore. Everyone still accepts that version as Fred, however.

Also, to be fair, Cody isn't the only character on TDRR to get this treatment. Gwen also acts absolutely nothing like she did in the main Total Drama series. They gave her a complete personality makeover as well.

That's just my two cents.