User blog comment:Rhonda the stalker fan!/Total Drama 30 Day Challenge: Day 3/@comment-1736722-20180703194353

TDWT for sure! TDI is pretty close but WT did a lot right to shake up the show's format (songs, Alejandro/Sierra, a new setting each episode, 3 teams instead of 2).

I kind of consider the first 3 seasons of TD to be the most "canon" because when the original characters came back after that point it felt like a lot of development was abandoned, but up to this point we had 2 seasons worth of character development that still got built upon. Bonus points for the perfect 3-season Heather arc that TDWT handled perfectly.

This season didn't come without drawbacks. The love triangle always gets a lot of heat, which personally doesn't bother me that much, but choices like GollumZeke and DJ's animal curse were... questionable. However, the highs of this season greatly outweigh that to me. The first episode through London is a near perfect string of Total Drama episodes and the endgame from the final 5 onwards matches that quality.

This season also houses some of my all-time favorite Total Drama episodes, including I See London... and Planes, Trains, and Hot Air Mobiles. Also, as someone said in chat a couple days ago, the songs are way better than they have any right to be considering a non-musical show randomly decided to add songs in the 3rd season. Why are so many of them so good? How did that happen? I don't know but I bop to TDWT songs regularly.

THIS IS GETTING LONG, but the anticipation building up to this season was also so much fun! I remember back when it was Total Drama: the Musical and we had the online brochure thing on Cake Entertainment's website. I remember everyone thinking Sierra was named Kathy. I remember the first trailer coming out and everyone going frame-by-frame, trying to figure out if Ezekiel was part of the cast or not. I was very directly part of the Total Drama online fandom at this point and it was a lot of fun to experience (and try to hide from spoilers when Australia aired the episodes in like one day).

So yeah I kinda love TDWT a lot <3