User blog comment:Freefalling Lilacs/Lilac Ranks Total Drama/@comment-1874924-20140327011824

Despite his generally devil-may-care attitude, Geoff was the only Bass other than Courtney to show any real inclination to lead during TDI's team phase. It was he who first tried to rally his team during the hot tub building, and he served as team captain for the cooking challenge and the eating challenge. His friendship with Gwen seemed to come out of nowhere, and I'm not sure that it was ever mentioned again, but that was presumably a nod to the plan to hook them up in Camp TV.

I've said elsewhere that Alejandro strikes me as what TDA Justin was supposed to be but never really became. If Justin had turned out to be a decent villain, there might never have been an Alejandro at all. In the first part of TDWT, when Alejandro was still a human being, I liked him better than I expected to, but I grew to dislike him as he became more of a godplaying gamebot.

Owen was one of my least favorites in the first two season, due mainly to severe overuse. He was good for what he did, but a little Owen goes a long way. The TDWT writers toned down his excesses, and I liked that version of Owen much better. That said, now that I know of your taste for lowbrow humor, I'm dying to hear your thoughts on how I made an Owen fart joke dramatically important.

Harold is probably around the middle of the pack for me, and I still can't fathom why he didn't take out Duncan--the guy who was actually tormenting him--instead of Courtney when he stuffed the ballot box.

Season 1 Gwen remains my favorite of the lot. I didn't like the way the writers nerfed her in TDA (of course, I didn't like a lot of things that the writers did to a lot of characters in TDA) but she's still one of my favorites.

Heather's never been one of my favorites, but you're right that TD wouldn't be the same without her.

I like Lindsay, although she's not among my favorites. From what I've heard, the main reason why Katie and Sadie haven't been in another season is because they're too similar to Lindsay, who is funnier and better developed.

I'd love to do one of these ranking blogs someday (for the FYE or WTH characters, for example), but it's not going to happen because it's all I can do to rank my favorites and (maybe) least liked. I have no hope of being able to sort out the big "mushy middle".