Thread:Stryzzar/@comment-1037137-20141228235252/@comment-24152851-20150109061924

What TDI did (and TDAS didn't), was use common sense on what was good and what was not, rather than feeding what they think the fans want. They've shown before that Total Drama is not a show made just to abuse people, that’s South Park's job. This show presented itself as caring for their characters (albeit featuring them in jokes at times), and that’s how it should be kept. Yeah, I don't care if people tell me otherwise, I find that film to be overrated as hell. It's something I could sit through but will not come back and watch. Yes, I know you’re supposed to watch the other origin films which it ties in with. But even considering that, the film itself was so chock full of flashy fanservice. There was virtually no plot other than: Avengers assemble, Loki escapes, Loki summons army, Avengers beat up army, The End. There was no progression of storyline, nothing remotely unpredictable, and it felt more like a liveaction smash-it-out game then a film. Even if a plotless action packed film is what people are into, there's still countless problems with the film. Why the hell is Black Widow in that film when she doesn’t have superpowers? Because her boobs are big. And Hawkeye is ridiculously OP. He took out the entire Helicarrier using a single arrow. The Hulk effect was also worse than any of the previous films, and I’m not sure I like Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner. Also worst choice for first Avengers Villain, there’s so many better options like Legion of Evil, Kang the Conqueror, Graviton, even Red Skull is better than Loki. Only reason why God of Mischief got chosen is because he’s the only villain from the previous films who didn't get killed.

You know, I think they had that “focus on creating drama” mentality for the first half of TDAS. By the unholy trinity they didn't care enough to do even that anymore. In those episodes it was just get Mal and Zoey to the finale, and kick aside whoever's in the way by any means necessary. Even those who feed on comic relief couldn't get anything out of the unholy trinity. I still can't get over how impossibly stupid Bold and the Booty-full was. I cannot think of one person who enjoyed that episode, not even the little kids. Even SMS got more appreciation than piece of crap.

Comic relief characters should always fit in with their story, and the humor being a bonus. They should not have a completely out of place character for the sake of comic relief. Relevant comic relief characters is actually where the writer skill becomes evident. Out of all the characters to die in the first three films, it’s a pity Jar Jar wasn’t one of them. I get he had a role in the first film of being the connection to the Gungans, so that they could summon the army and fight the droids. But was it asking too much to have him to shut up half the time? Every 5 minutes he’s just there doing something stupid or annoying Qui Gon. Well I’m sure you’re aware how many people around here hated ROTI, and out of those people how many of them liked Lightning. Some people just like his comic relief, no matter how irrelevant and unrealistic it is. With Anne Maria, she may seem quite loved on the wiki, but she’s very hated among younger fans so I don’t think she quite attains fan favourite status. Jo and Brick are probably the only ones to be able to compete with Lightning’s fans. Dawn would’ve been able to as well if she didn’t have such a massive drop in fans as of late. As for Scott, wasn’t he the most hated character in ROTI other than Staci and Mike?

Really sad to see a show with great premise and characters, but writing that goes and spews all over it. It’s unbelievable just how many plots they threw away. A lot of those fanfics written by kids probably fared better than the crap in that season. That’s probably one of the central reasons why they screwed up so badly: “only keeping the *one* plotline going that probably more than half the fandom didn't even care for”. They just don’t know how to prioritize, and as a result have lost so many fans. Rotating writers would be a pretty good course of action. Though I’m worried they’re too polite to just kick writers out, based on how much they denied the rumors that Ed Macdonald and Marco Grazzini were fired. I’m not sure if they couldn’t afford it. ROTI had the highest ratings for any program in the year it aired (but that might’ve been in part due to it getting delayed). But they didn’t seem short on viewers at that point. Regardless of the reason, there seems to have been a lot of costs cut. The 20 second intro is just stupid and completely pointless, how much money is taking off 4/5 of the song going to save? Well looks as though the amount of investments really showed in the final product. Pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

I don’t know, there has been quite a few complaints about lack of continuity of TDA with TDWT (mainly how everyone forgot Courtney was the antagonist and Owen was the mole). But I guess based on how much continuity TDAS already threw out, having some more lack of continuity to amend the first damage wouldn’t hurt. Speaking of the Mike returning issue, should have that blog up today. Typed most of it up, and just ironing it out now.

Perhaps, but from how it read, it really felt like the person writing it had no idea. If it actually was a lie, then it would have been a distorted truth that was somewhat believable, but what we got was the polar opposite. I think when I first read it I was thinking, that’s an odd alternate interpretation.

I remember now, all that modern world junk coupled with Aang dying, was the reason why I never felt the appeal to get into that series. No matter how much my friends kept hyping and conversing about it. You’d think they’d only be in the Age of Industry where they had just started coal powered mass production, or when they had first developed morse code or something. Maybe some aliens crash landed on the planet and they copied the technology? Family-sized automobiles? So they don’t even know bloody geography on top of their history, at least having freaking snowmobiles in the southpole!

Well something that engages me, that many of those shooter fans don’t share, is an appeal from the story and not just a adrenaline-pumping, crazy, button-mashing game. If the MW games has a great premise, then I’ll probably be a lot more into it then a lot of the haters. I can’t really judge any of them at this point though. So multiplayer isn’t one of the game’s highlights? That’s probably one of the reasons the it’s been lashed. COD’s base is pretty infamous for it’s multiplayer, and a fair few unsociable individuals in the community if you know what I mean.

Yep, I really want that game. Lots of indie games have been trying to take that approach, and have stood out from the mass-promoted triple A games, which work only to feed the fans rather than focusing on quality (much like what we mentioned above).