User blog comment:Rhonda the stalker fan!/Total Drama 30 Day Challenge: Day 3/@comment-2166423-20180704223536

This is a hard one for me to answer because I usually go by process of elimination: RotI and All-Stars are just plain bad to me, so they're not even considered. Pahkitew is a great effort to correct the bottom-of-the-barrel quality of the last two seasons, and while it gives us interesting characters, it lacks by not having enough episodes to let them develop. TDA is a weird one to me because it never feels too cohesive: it had a very slow and mediocre start, picked up when Gwen was eliminated, had a stretch of ICONIC episodes that rival my favorite season - that is: from Ocean's Eight (Or Nine) to Get a Clue -, then sunk to the bottom once Owen returned (coincidence?).

That leaves the harder-to-rank Top 3. I struggle to rank TDI because a lot of the positive feelings I have for it stem from nostalgia; it's a show that inspired so many comflicting emotions on me (I once completely quit watching it on the talent show episode due to my phobia of vomit, but my love for some characters *cough*Courtney*cough* was bigger and made me return) and molded many of my quirks as a person today (from my RTV obsession, to my art style, to my tendency of classifying random people as 'The...'), and for that I tend to overlook many of its glaring flaws. TDWT is amazing because it shows Total Drama can have arcs more complex than "evil villain ruins local reality show", which is a weird thing to say considering Alejandro exists in it, but I can't help but feel his character was pretty meta (maybe I'm giving TD writers too much credit), it was also, at the time, the season whose humor spoke more strongly to me: Tyler's slapstick, Noah's deadpan, Blaineley's attitude, Sierra's... Sierra-ness were all great sources of comic relief away from the not good but old toilet humor. However, there were points when the season felt a little stagnant to me and I think having a team made completely out of fodder contributed to that; other obvious flaws include the Duncan overexposure, the Leshawna derailment and... whatever happened to Ezekiel. So after all this needless digression, I'm going to say Ridonculous Race MIGHT be my favorite, but I still feel like this title could go to any of those three depending on my mood (tinykong). The reasons for that are many: besides being based on my favorite reality show out there (oops, bias) the season never felt stagnant to me despite the numerous episodes, the cast never felt bloated despite the obvious abundance of characters, the race's results were mostly unpredictable, the characters got some sort of depth that I expected to be dead and gone from the TD series after the last few seasons, the humor felt way more varied than its predecessors too (that's not saying vomit/toiler humor weren't still there), and most importantly the cast was just so damn likable and ~fresh~. It just gave me a hope for the Total Drama series that I had completely lost.