User blog:Mister.. E./Total Drama Pahkitew Island Rankings

Well another season of Total Drama is down, and it was actually pretty excellent. This season really shows that they can make a good season with good characters and plots even with a short thirteen episode season, rather than the longer twenty-six episode format. Now onto the actual good part, the rankings.

#14 - Sugar - 3rd Place

 Sugar is a type of character that I’d never like, honestly. A fairly unfunny parody of a really unfunny person with no real plot who makes it far over many, many, many superior characters. To top it all off, they force her as the antagonist at times despite there being both better (Scarlett) and funnier (Max) antagonists, oh and she ends up being the reason two of my favorites go home. So really, this shouldn’t be shocking at all. In the beginning of the season, Sugar quickly emerged as a large presence with lots of lines clearly meant to be funny by the writers since they were so frequent, but to me they were very hit/miss. Sometimes she’d be funny, sometimes it was just pointless and annoying. Luckily this season was pretty balanced overall when it came to how often people were shown, only a couple being shafted at any point so I can’t complain about her stealing the spotlight… except that’s what her character seemed to be about, I mean, it made complete sense since she’s a pageant girl and that’s how many of them are, but still.

Then she and Ella begin interacting, and Sugar immediately hates her, this plotline goes on for about four episodes and it’s basically Sugar just laughing at Ella every time something bad happened to her and then Ella continuing to be nice to her, much to Sugar’s dismay. What annoys me about this “rivalry” is just how petty it is on Sugar’s part, and I do like some negative, petty characters but Sugar in this instance was just bitter and annoying the whole time. All of it culminating in Sugar basically tattling to Chris and getting Ella kicked off for no reason other than a personal victory, which would be okay if Sugar wasn’t incredibly annoying during the whole thing.

After Ella’s elimination, she started getting a little better I guess, she was less focused on and wasn’t just a bitch the whole time, though it was still present and more tolerable, but she was beginning to become more about eating and gross-out humor, so I was still not amused. Didn’t like it with Owen, don’t like it now. But then in episode ten I was actually thinking she was getting to be good, then in the next episode, they begin forcing this antagonistic role for her, but this time even worse than before. Then it was all downhill from there, and Sugar’s fart at Jasmine’s elimination ceremony is one of the least funny “funny” moments I have ever seen on TD ever.

Overall, I think they overused Sugar and used her in the wrong role, which is a shame because if she had been less “in your face” and had less gross-out Owen-esque humor which nobody over the age of five finds funny and more of just a funny side character who left early I would’ve liked her much, much more. 

Clue For #13: Male