User blog comment:Rhonda the stalker fan!/Total Drama 30 Day Challenge: Day 3/@comment-3350823-20180704052657

I'm kind of torn. My intital response is to immeaditely go with Total Drama Island. I mean it's the iconic first season with its iconic locations, challenges, eliminations and of course characters. I saw this youtube video the other day of some animation youtuber reacting to TDI and it just baffled me what he assumed about this franchise. This franchise is over ten years old and five to six seasons with a spin-off. To grow up with it and see it as the big thing on CN is crazy.

That said if I think the most well made season has to the be the Ridonculous Race. Maybe it was All-Stars backlash and PI doing okay, but it was really well made. Sure it had the usual TD problems we've come to expect and wasn't the most original, but after ten years they really made their best product. I mean I don't dislike any of the characters and throughly enjoy most of the cast, even the early outs. Most characters felt like they had actual stories and character arcs. I was occasionally even shocked at an elimination. There was actual tension about them because of the race format.

I feel like the challenges and location use were stronger. It parodied elements of TAR well, like an actual parody, but you didn't have to know those to enjoy it. I do feel like the lack of ensemble interaction was kind of disappointing, but TD kinda failed at that in its smaller seasons and was held up by the team interactions instead.

It's also a bit hard for me to separate TD from its other seasons and know what's happening. And yet...I might just still have to pick Total Drama Island because I do have a lot of love for it (and the franchise in general). It's still mythic and kind of captivating.