User blog comment:DestructiveMilkshake/why does everyone here hate every other season for not being tdi/@comment-27329394-20150402161046

I like to think the wiki is trying to tend towards positivity at times, but then whenever you have something like that happening, someone (generally one of a select few users) has to be a fun killer and talk about how much they hate something that someone, somewhere in the blog mentioned, and then it all immediately goes to crap. The worst part is that these are almost always the same subject as the previous one. For example, I cannot tell you how many times I've seen this group of users talk about how much they hate the love triangle in a blog if someone anywhere decides to say that they enjoyed it. And it's the same exact reasoning every single time, which makes everything else look bad.

Nobody wants to admit TDI has flaws because its the season that most likely made them like the show in the first place. This eventually ends up clouding their judgement from thinking "it was not as good as TDI but still good" to "it sucks entirely because these one or two things happened" and they don't really remember why they liked it when they initially watched it, which often happens.

As a byproduct of some of those things, people are incredibly critical of either characters not being used as much in a future season or a certain contestant not making it far enough. What I'd like to say though that TDI is the season that put contestants like Noah in this situation where they "need" an extra season. Also, people seem to get tired of certain characters showing up a lot, but this is something I also think is unfair. Total Drama doesn't really have main characters, so having certain contestants to fall back can help balance this out. Notice how this is pretty much the only show where a presented complaint is "this character shows up too much," and yet can be considered a major character.

Finally, I think that two specific characters - Gwen and Mike - are causing this to happen too. Gwen in particular getting noticeably less important and less good has a disproportionate emphasis on people's viewpoints of a lot of seasons. Whenever a character does anything to Gwen, I feel like that character will suddenly get a large spike in overall criticism, with Duncan being the biggest example. I've already stated what I think about the whole Mike situation elsewhere - it is one of the biggest overreactions I have ever seen in my life, and merely mentioning him (which is hard not to do if you are going to talk about TDRoTI or TDAS...) seems to trigger half the wiki.

I'm one of those guys who thinks that the worst season is still decent television and I like TDWT more than TDI, so obviously my opinion isn't the most popular out there, but I think this is what causes the negativity. I'm not kidding though that if you maybe removed a few users from that picture, there would be a lot less negativity, which makes me even more annoyed of why it is happening so often.

That is all.

/rant