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Island worked so well because of how accurately is parodied survival shows and teen comedies of the time.
The douchebag host, the overly complex challenges, the melodrama, the confessions that seem to happen at impossible moments, the insane cast of strong personalities, the lack of budget, and the over stylized editing.

I am glad the show found Its own identity and didn't rely on parody, but the intimate nature of Island was never captured again. I haven't finished the newest season, but i love the characters. Even not finishing it yet, i can tell the 13 episodes won't be enough for the show. Everything already feels so rushed and none of the characters have had any of those more intimate moments outside of the challenges.

Justin should've stayed for season 3, it would have been amazing to see him have a rivalry with Alejandro, not controversial just a thought I have

I'm sorry is no one gonna talk about how Courtney was straight up BREAK DANCIN at the end? Look at her freaking GO!!!

“It’s a shame beardo died though” yay I’m not the only one who watched a 2 hour analysis on how each total drama character was ruined by total drama 😊

I think a big reason I'd go to bat for "I'm Sorry" is because Bridgette simply has a really good voice, one of my favorites in the cast.

Total Drama Action is way too underappreciated. The merge phase especially just feels very comfy with its general aura.

People who complain about Trent as a love interest should keep in mind it was almost Geoff x Gwen and I feel like we should be grateful it wasn’t

Sierra’s development during the end of Season 3 is absolutely ruined in all stars and it’s incredibly lazy of the writers as they just needed a filler elimination

Here we go!

1. Emma was horrible. She was so rude to kitty. Kitty literally CARRIED Emma and she got a pile of poo in return.

2. I actually like pahkitew, there were some characters i enjoyed. I think that it lacked a villain though. (Im talking heather/alejandro type of villain, sugar wanted to be them so bad)

3. Zoey was a heavily watered down version of what could have been a good character. Her whole thing was "im so kind and i am in love with mike!"

4. Duncney was toxic since action. Who gives the person they "love" 32 pages on what to change about themselves? And thats just one example. Honestly, gwuncan and duncney suck.

5. Idc if sierra carried cody to the top three, she was creepy, obsessive, abusive, and we all know that if sierra was a boy none of you would let that slide.

Owen is a good character because he's such a great person. He always tries to be nice and see the best in people, and he comes at it from such a sincere place. In the environment of the show, where people have every incentive to not be like that, Owen still does. If it weren't for how heavily they lean on grossout jokes with him he'd probably be my favourite character but he's such a conduit for shit that's just not fun to watch that it really brings him down.

Hot Take: PRE-TWIST Scarlett (Yes, I count pre-twist Scarlett and post-twist Scarlett as 2 separate characters) is one of the best characters in TDPI and hard carries the show whenever she gets screentime. She was smart and cunning, and she had a genuinely good plan with paring up with Max and enabling him and his "evil" plans until he screws up (in which case it's an obvious, automatic boot for Max). Plus, while not physically the strongest, she's very slick with her tongue and, as stated in her confessionals, is not above doing terrible stuff just to get ahead in the game without feeling any remorse.

Sierra definitely creeps me out. I can respect her talents for knowing how to get through the challenges. But in a way she reminds me a bit too much of a character named Marinette. And whenever I see a stalker character. Regardless of their gender. I'm creeped out. Sierra is that character.

2:10 the Duncan shade😭😭 honestly i agree, if he existed irl, i would scream and call 911

Hot take: A good chunk of people dislike World tour but in my opinion it's #1 tied with island. Alejandro and Heather really carried the season.

If your favorite character is Trent, then Action is only worth rewatching after the 1st Aftermath  Show. Because seeing Trent spiral into madness just hurts to see, like Bojack Horseman season 2 Episode 11.

When you said "it's a shame beardo" died I screamed in delight

Alejandro was too good of a villain. They created the ultimate bad guy 3 seasons in and because of it the next seasons suffered. Scott and the Ice Dancers were pretty good but Mal, Scarlett and Sugar were hot garbage.
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Mal could have been a great villain if he  wasn't such a comically evil edgelord, personally I would have made him a Machiavellian foil to Mike in order to protect him. Claiming that Mike was too weak and he needed to take charge to win this competition no matter who gets trampled in his way due to Mal witnessing Mike's elimination in Grand Chef Auto. Also he giving a reason to distance himself from his friends instead of his "I'm a bad kid that likes to do bad things" excuse would have helped.

I honestly think while Mal might've not been explained the best. He can't be as evil as he seems. For one thing that sticks with me to this day. Mal saying to Mike in The final wrecking. I'm a part of you. Which makes me wonder. Was Mal created because of something traumatizing happening to Mike when younger? Was he originally a protector to keep Mike safe years ago before the juveie incident?

I will say that Heather indeed should have gotten far in Island, but that it shouldn't have been because of plot armor. At least, not to that extent. Like, you could keep Heather in the game, without making her get an immunity by complete luck in an episode where she clearly would have been eliminated otherwise. Heck, sometime we don't even get an explanation for why she wasn't eliminated. I still don't know why Izzy was eliminated for the second time instead of Heather to this day. And to go back on that pirate episode, the plot armor she received doesn't make her seem like she is a smart manipulating villain. It makes it feel like she is someone dumb that got lucky. Like, she made a plan to make Gwen and Trent angry at each other, and make everyone else vote for Trent, but she didn't come up with something that would prevent her from from getting all the elimination votes instead. Maybe it would have felt like a smarter plan if she made her plan, AFTER she already knew she would get immunity, but that's not what happens.

The stupid part is that the majority of this would have been solved with one simple change. You see, the reason why the Heather plot armor feels worse than the Alejandro or Scott plot armor is because those two at least made the effort to not reveal how bad of a person they are too early into the game. Heather meanwhile read Gwen's diary in front of everyone as soon as the fourth challenge, so now everyone knows she is a bitch. This is a problem, because first, this is another thing that makes Heather seem more dumb than an actual smart manipulative villain, because there was absolutely no strategic reasons to read Gwen's diary in front of everyone. Second, and more importantly, now the writers have to come up with multiple excuses as to why Heather isn't eliminated for the rest of the season, with varying levels of success. If Heather didn't show her true colors that early, her not being eliminated can be very simply explained by "the other contestant doesn't know how horrible she is and all the bad stuff she does throughout the season". No ridiculous plot armor needed. The Big Sleep is my favorite TDI episode for multiple reason, and one of them is that we see how peak Heather looks like. In that episode, she comes up with a plan to eliminate Eva without ever being suspected as a bad person that people should be aware of. And that's actually really cool, and make her look smart. But we can't have moments like that in the rest of the season because she ruined everything in the fourth challenge.