User blog:Tomas T/Ranking the characters - generation 1 (Part 2)

I ranked the lower half of my gen1 ranking (places 24th to 13th) now lets rank all the rest. Im telling you, if you read my blogs and/or comments, you will get a big suprise at the end.

To see the first half click here

Note: I base this list about my opinions, not how well they played the game.

12. Cody
Poor Cody. In the past he used to be fan favorite. and now a lots of people hates him for being a floater and carried by Sierra. But still, I find Cody a really likable character. He has motivation but his stalker never let him express it. I don't really know what I find him so cute but this is the situation. There weren't many moments that he bothered me that much and most of the time he was entertaining. Just hab bad luck by cutting from the season so fast in TDI, rejected from TDA and having a stalker in TDWT. Cody deserved better: a Sierraless season. a way to see Cody express his skills. But we need to give him the credit for being the first person in the show who actually gave Heather minimal respect in TDWT.

11. Izzy
So Eva ends the "I really like" them tier/section and Izzy open the "I love them so much" tier/section. My opinions on Izzy are simillar to my opinions about Eva. Both are the only characters in this generation that I enjoyed evry single scene of them (with Izzy, I dislike only one scene: her elimination in TDWT). This character always make me smile nad laught. Way better comic relife than others in the show (Sorry Max). Izzy and her crazyness are so entertaining and I just want to see more and more from her. So why she end up outside of the top 10 and yet outranked Eva if I see them as simillar? well she outranked Eva just for the simple reason Izzy was in three seasons. For being outside of the top 10, in all her three seasons she just used as a comic relife. Yes she made me smile all the time, but she need to be more than funny comic relife to earned her place in the top 10. If the theory about Izzy being genious who manipulate TD UNIVERSE all this time was canon, Izzy could be in the top 6. But I really think she should get a credit for being the best comic relife in the show so lets gave her the 11th spot. close to the top 10.

10. Bridgette
Bridgette, like some others, I really don't know what I love so much about her. But there is a fact: I love her. I think that the setting of Bridgette as the "normal one" is the thing that I like her the most. Every comedy/sitcom need to have this "normal one" to balancing. And Bridgette filling the role perfectly in charming and adorkable way. She is maybe the most balanced character in this generation. her pros and flaws are balancing each other, the good things she does and the bad things are balanced, she is good in challange but not godplayer. I love the balance of her character and I think this is the thing that I love the most about her. And adding the fact she is one of the nicest people on this show give her a huge bonus points. She has big personality and she is the pasifict every group of friends need. So if I love her so much (love her in a level that she is the main protagonist and one of the only six survivors of my slasher fanfic "Camp Blood Wawanakwa) why does she got only the 10th spot? two reasons: 1. She is unused by the writers. While she has great run in TDI, the writers decide to turned her into "FemZkiel" (until Staci introduced to us) and she was the first female who eliminated two seasons in a row. She was aftermath host so it gave her more screentime but still I want to see Bridgette compete more. The second problem is all these moments when she has some kind of less friendly side that has nothing to do if her character, like she had an evil twin sister who died and something she posses her. Like the time she mocked Tyler, turned to Owen's side in the finale (due dumb animation error. but still) or being on team Trent in TDA aftermath (did the writers wanted to put Gwen's victimistion on maximum by turning one of her best friend againts her?). But overall Bridgette is nice person so I think she deserve to be on the top 10. Oh speaking of Tyler.

9. DJ
One of the most innocent and lovable people on this show. Dj showing us that heart can come in multiple sizes. He is big, fit, strong and yet he is soft and kind. A person with love to anyone and anyone can find love for him (even Heather!). He is big but a big heart need to have a big body. A cute person that you just want to root for. Yes I talk all the time about Dj's big heart but this is his main quality and this is the thing that made us love this guy. Every parent would love for Dj to be their son-in-low.

8. Tyler
I'm going to admit it: I am not a huge fan of Tyler's humor type. So why he is on the 9th place? because I think Tyler is a great character. He friendly, funny, cute and he has great motivation. But Tyler can teach all of us great lesson for life and dreams. Great lesson that the writers ignor. Tyler teach us to never give up on our dreams, no matter how hard it. You see, Tyler is awful in sports. He fail almost every single time. Some can say "just quit sport. you are suck!!!" and claim he has zero self awerness. But I see it diffrently. Tyler keep on doing sports even thout he is suck at it because this is the thing he love to do. He loves sport, sport is his passion. Yes he is not good at it, but Tyler want to improve, he wants to learn more, he wants to be better. Tyler never gives up. He keep on trying to do his best, keep on following his dreams. He takes riskis, uses his chances, never give up. Same thing about Lindsay not rememering him. Tyler never gave up on Lindsay. He love her and he will not gave up on her. He try to deal with her flaws and accepted her for who she is. Tyler even saved his team life in TDWT. Tyler is a true hero because he never, but never, gives up. And this is a quality that I admire. If we have a dream and there are some struggle in making them come true, we just need to find our personal Tyler in our heart.

7. Leshawna
So Leshawna, the original queen of the francshise. Myabe the person in-universe who beloved by many other characters while not being princess goody goody two shoes. She is a perfect example of a person who stand for herself. She will side her best friends and will protect them. Yes I know i'm using it alot and I will say it again: she is a charmer. There is some magic, a charm about her character, her attitude, her sas and her strong personality that makes me love here with her flaws. In fact, out of all the first generation, Leshawna has the most stable placment. While my opinions about characters were changed a lot, and every character changed placemt, Leshawna always was in the section/tier of between 7 to 5. The only reason she is in the 7th its just because my 6th character is a TDWT newcomer. But back to Leshawna, she is an awsome character. just for the simple reason she is awsome person with strong personality. Yes she did mistakes but everyone does mistake all the time. Leshawna's mistakes makes her more relistic and more relatable. Since Sierra already got her place in the former blog and I do not placing Blaineley, we all know who will be the next spot.

6. Alejandro
Our latin lover. Alejandro is the hottest creation of fresh tv so he already got bonus points (Sorry Justin, sorry Zoey). Alejandro introduce to us in the 3rd season. After Heather, Justin, Duncan and Courtney finished their roles as the antagonist fresh decide its the time for something new and we got Alejandro. Some may say he is the best antagonist, some may say he is godplayer or Gary Stu, but he definitely the most succefull antagonist. maneged to eliminte 11 characters in one season (in case you're not remember: Harold, Bridgette, Leshawna, Dj, Naoh, Tyler, Gwen, Owen, Courtney, Duncan and Cody). This is a record that nobody brok before and nobody brok after. He knew everything, knew everyone, knew everything about everyone. In intesive season like TDWT, a mastermind antagonist is the thing we need and Alejandro served this role perfectly. His love-hate relationship with Heather was the best thing in the season, his gameplay was awsome and he is one of the greatest finalist ever. Yet it doesnt mean the writers can't give him some humanity. Alejnadro has backstory of being bullied by his big brother and being under his shadow all of his life. And the writers never afraid of letting Alejandro being the but of the joke from time to time. Alejnadro is great character that if we not love him, he love to hate him. In TDAS, his job and antagonist is over and now its the time to see his nicer side. I love his interactions with anyone this season and how he still tried to keep the title of "The drama king" for himself. Too bad he eliminated in his personal torture episode (really TD writers? out of all characters you could give torture episode your best choice was Alejandro? how dare you?). Still, for me, Alejandro always will be the king of the drama. Why the 6th place? not special reason. Its a good placement for Alejandro. He is a great character, I just happneed to love/relate other characters more than him.

5. Courtney
Remember how in part 1 I talked about the controversies about the fandom's opinion on Owen and Duncan? So this time is a new controversy. Maybe the most controversial cartoon character after Eric Cartman: Courtney. Courtney is such an amazing character. She is just a scene stealer. I love the way she talk, she acts, she sue and ect. Her mannerism are amazing and they add to her character. I can't put my finger directly about what I love about Courtney so much. But her characters written, animated, edited and voiced so great that I can't not to love her. Actually I can relate to her a lot. When I'm in bad mood I can be perfect male Courtney (Court?). Share the same way of judgment and manerism (like in the scene she yell at Chris and Chef thru the camera in TDI special and keep talking, I can do the same thing) and when I was a little I threat to sue everyone who annoyed me. I have lawyers and I was a CIT!!! LOL just kidding. I never was CIT XD. But still, Courtney is great and her voice actress, Emily Claire Barlow is my favorite TD voice cast member. Actually, Courtney so easily could have been in my top 3, or even top 1. But she did not. What prevented her? TDA. Being more specific: the last six episodes of TDA (not counting the special). In TDI Courtney was great and this is my favorite version of her. While I never liked the idea of antagonist Courtney, I admit she served the role in great way (still Courtney, along with Justin and TDA Duncan were inferiour antagonist comperes to Heather and TDI Duncan). However the last six episodes of TDA, in my opinion, are the worst episodes in the series after the second half of TDAS. Courtney's characters in these episode zig zagged between being competitive and motivated to an annoying whiny b****. I could not stand any characters in these episodes (with the expetion of Lindsay and Harold who were the first people who left). and the SMS Courtney just deleted a great character development for her. But in the rest of the series Courtney was great. So she got the 5th place because she is awsome.

4. Lindsay
So we finished with Courtney and now lets move to her nemesis: Lindsay. I think Lindsay being so high in my ranking is the most popular opinion here, and its justfide. Lindsay is such a sweetheart. She is funny, nice, pretty and has good humor. First of all I love the twist the creators did with the dumb blonde trope. Lindsay is dumb, Lindsay is blonde, but her netural hair is brown while Bridgette, the netural blonde, is smart. Lindsay is funny with her charming dumbness. forgetting people names, talking with her special logic and suggesting weird ideas. But at the same time she can be really good player. In TDI it was shown that physical look is not always gives you self confidence. In fact, the way Heather used her, it showed us Lindsay's self esteem is not that high as she represent (she had some comment about Heather not being good friend and still she accept to take all her BS). But later she gain some self esteem, call her out and leave the season with dignity. TDA was her peek, she had amazing game and she proved that Lindsay has a brain, but she never used it. In fact every season it was hinted that Lindsay has some hidden skills with thinking, like in TDI she knew if she and Heather will share a victim in the hide and seak episode they both will win. She knew how to build two bikes by herself, in TDA she was the sole stable person in her team (untill Courtney arrived) and in TDWT she almost finish to rebuild the statue by herself while DJ was running from the cursed animals the the other two teams (five memeber each) never were close to finish. and even in TDAS it was hinted that Lindsay faked her ultra dumbness to be voted off. Lindsay is a character that has everyting to be loved by me. She is pretty, funny, likable, nice, great humor and maybe some hidden lore behind her. And this poor girl suffers from the worst running gag in this show: getting worst elimination every single time. So why Lindsay only 4th if I love her so much? well you can actually replace her with the 3rd place. I love them both the same. The only reason I put Lindsay in the 4th place just because I wanted at least one list to have the top 3 two males and one female since the GEN2 list the top 3 were two females one male and GEN3 list three females were in top 3.

3. Harold
Well I was not suprise to place Harold so high. He really great character, the coolest dork around. When he is surrounded by hot guys, Harold still dominant himself with his skills and proved he can be better than them (duh. he outrank all the TD hotties. most of them if you count Noah as a hottie). Unlike a lot of characters with Harold's style, Harold really does have great skills that help him and his team during the challanges. GOSH Harold gave the firt two victories to his team. Without him the Killer Bass could lose in Dodgbrowl and Not quit famous, thing that lead them to six losses in a row (worst than team victory and toxic rats). But skillfull Harold always was here to help them. With the expetion of Duncan, Courtney and Alejandro Harold never hold any grudge for other and will see the good (I mean, he never hold any grudge for Heather). His interactions with everyone are enjoybale. Harold is really valuebale character and a good way to write the character of the dork in cartoons. For years the dorks/geeks/nerds are written in disrespectful way. So its good thing to have Harold that prove us that dorks can be cooler than the cool guys. And like Courtney I can relate to Harold in so many levels (with all the irony of them hating each other). Like him im a kinda geek so I enjoy Harold's geek culture reffrences. Harold is a great guy so he deserve to be placed in the 3rd spot (or 4th. its does not really matter)

Only if Harold and Lindsay were the final two in TDA...

So this is the time for the top 2 characers. It is really obvious that Noah is the top 1 so lets just talk about Heather

2. Noah
I always told here that Noah is my favorite character, not only from the first generation, from the whole francshise. So how Noah is on the 2nd place? Well you are not wrong. Noah is still my favorite character and will always be my favoerite. However, unlike the previous blogs where I think the best character and the favorite character are the same person, here im not sure. Noah is my favorite character for sure, but the bet character, goest for someone else. So this is why Noah, despite being my personal favorite character, getting the 2nd place. So lets talk about Noah.

Noah is a character that I began to love from the very first minuts. But he became my favorite in TDWT when he took the spot of being the only sane person in his team (the first time that this spot was taken by a male character) and yet he maneged to be funny with his sarcasm and humor. Pretty much: Chandler Bing (think about it: same attitude, same hair, same clothing style. It was never confrimed by im sure for 99% Chandler was Noah's inspartion). Noah's friendship with Owen was great thing in the season because it seems that this friendship is the most stable thing in Owen's life after TDI was over. Still, we have pure example of a person who learn from his past mistakes. He wasn't the best player but he did compete the challange and try his best (and could do way better if he wasn't cheated out and eliminated for no reason). I can see Noah as a cartoon version of myself. Sarcastic, funny, same numb attiude, hate sports, love books, feminine scream sometimes, same body language and same hairstyle and I love the preppy clothing style (however in my country peole not wearing this clothing style and I don't want to be so domimant so...). Some say the RR ruined Noah. I don't think so. He just got personal storyline about falling in love for the first time. Not the best storyline I admit but it was nice experience to see Noah becoming softer for a person he likes. But I admit I want to see more strategic version of TDWT Noah if we will get new season. Like Emily Clair Barlow, Noah's voice actor Carter Hayden is one of my favorite VA in this franchise. Anybody ealse find his voice so sexy or its just me?

Ok so only one left, one who get the 1st place. Who is she?

1. Heather
Noah is my favorite character, but in temrs of who is the best, this title goes to only one character, one character with amazing character developemt, in every season she had diffrente role and each one she filled ir perfectly. She add drama for every scene she is in. This Lady is Heather, the queen of mean.

She did so much in four season and always deos in on the best. In TDI she was the main antagonist. Yes it seems she had dumb luck sometimes (and its only due deleting some scenes) but she did great work. She caused drama and tension and her interactions were great to see. Some people hated her and some loved to hate her. But I loved her because all the drama she add to the show. Every single time I just was cerious to see what will be her next move. and yet I waited to her downfall so much and it was great to see it finally happened. It was good thing to see, not for me it was good for Heather because losting her hair was the reborn of Heather with being better character and person. in TDA she cared about being as good as she can in challanges and getting new hair. She filled the role of the comic relife and she did great work. It was nice to see her not bothering the others so much. some people claim this was her most boring season, but I think TDA Heather in underrated. While I think TDA is skippable season (since nobody talking about the events of this season in the rest of the series. like it was took off from the canon), TDA is important for Heather's character development because its weird to end TDI with mean Heather and than just to see the heroic Heather in TDWT without seeing TDA Heather. Heather finally reborn in TDWT. She still had her sarcastic comments about her teammates, but it was amazing to see how hard she works, compere to the Heather in TDI who let Lindsay to do the hard work, TDWT Heather was on fire. Not by schaming, by competing and winning. She could get along with the other amazons when they needed to, she showed happiness sometimes and her suprising friendship with Cody was great thing for both characters. But Heather's redemption arc is the best thing in the season, and its basicly one of the main reasons why TDWT is my favorite season. Heather slowly slowly becoming more and more rootable amd heroic. Her conflict with Alejandro, that involved romantic tension, was pure entertainment. They have a cursh on each other, but they want to take each other down so bad. Heather, who was hated by everyone in the end of TDI, won in TDWT and everyone (with the expetion of Courtney, Ezekiel and Alejandro) are happy, cheer for her and clapping (even Eva is smiling). And despite being the main protagonist of the season and having a redemption, she still did not forgot her roots. still had her sarcastic comments here and there, still was worried being eliminatd, she did not tunred to princess goody goody, she just was more rootable, and it was enough to prove who amazing she was in her three roles (antagonist in TDI, comic relife in TDA and protagonist in TDWT). In TDAS Heather was great as well. She was the normal camper, without any special role. And yet she was good with it and she still kept her TDWT ways (not voting for Gwen, hating Alejandro and stuff). Even in her final apperance she was iconic and great. I can write a one huge blog about how amazing Heather is but I won't. Still, Hather is the best written character in this franchise, and she deserve to get the top 1.

Conclusion
Finally I finished it. It was pretty hard to decide who to put where because this generation count 24 characters and they have more development than the other two generations. But I did the challange well. I think this list is less controversial than the first one (with the exeption of Courtney). Overall this is the best generation and I will never get enough of them (unless they are Katie, Sadie, Ezekiel, Beth and Duncan).

So what do you think about my list?