User blog comment:TDWTisAWESOME/TDWT Love Triangle. Why all the Hate?/@comment-1037137-20150310191044/@comment-1037137-20150311000927

Yeah, they flat out admitted to that one the same year ROTI aired. It was during a video discussion that was held between him and Christian Potenza on at least a few things fans wanted to know about. Fans wanted to know what the deal was with the triangle, and there you have what was said.

Really, he was that annoyed? How do you know?

Who knows, it was Teletoon's idea, I don't know how the staff of Fresh felt about it themselves. But you'll find that they have had to do a lot of what their broadcasters say which may very well be interfering with the outcome of each season. It's the fault of CN and Teletoon that the show's trying so dang hard to appeal to kids after all. Unfortunately they haven't exactly done that very smartly, but that's an entirely different story.

Hmm, when you put it that way, that IS unbelievable. Justin accomplished what Heather didn't? Damn. But that isn't all, they went out of the way to flanderize Trent and took liberty with both his and Gwen's characters in a forced effort to "justify" this plot; again, something that aggravates me to no end. And I was almost going to say that, Gwent had already broken up and you saw how Harold and LeShawna can't ever decide if they're a pairing or not, the message should've already gotten across. Too bad they went out of the way to bum out the fandoms of Gwent and Duncney combined to send this misguided message across, which was a helluva lot of people at the time in both fandoms combined. Nobody's looking to Total Drama for a moral lesson, who are they kidding? And to then justify the cheating and warmongering going on in the triangle immediately after overrules that message and seems extremely hypocritical. Teletoon, if that explanation is even half honest and not just a cover story, clearly didn't understand the unfortunate implications that they gave off in trying to get this idea across.

I know, and this is why it's easy to accuse Duncan of being a Creator's Pet. The show doesn't even to ever acknowledge him as ever being in the wrong and even seems to reward him for it. And he definitely helped derail the others as he's been too central to their plots for too long. Any appreciation I had for Duncan was lost the moment the triangle came in.