User blog:CamperThirteen/Top Dog Talk

(You all knew this was coming...)

Or, the episode where TDA officially jumped the shark. This episode was so bad on the character derailment department that if I could grade it from 1 to 10, I'd just give up because calling it bad would be the understatement of the century. I don't even know where to start.

Oh, well. When you reach a moment in a show where you'll find yourself yelling at the screen and thinking THEY WOULD NEVER DO THAT! That means the show jumped the shark.

This is what happened to me when I watched this episode. Because, as bad as TDA has been -- and we all know it has been bad -- it always managed to retain some level of credibility and consistency (yeah, I'm actually using that term for Total Drama), however low. I always managed to survive another episode by saying, "okay, I can buy that" or "yeah, it's been built up", but after this all I can think of is how this episode is the true Mutiny. And boy am I glad this season is nearly over.

First off, Courtney. Sure, I can buy that she's competitive enough to do anything for invincibilty. I can buy that she's suddenly super-powerful. I can even buy that she's got anger issues all of a sudden, even though it was never hinted that she'd lose her self-control or insult her teammates over nothing. Alright. What I cannot buy is that, after all the development her character had in TDI and TDA (if you can call what TDA did to her character development, that is), she'd actually admit she and Duncan are in a relationship out of nowhere. I mean, one day she hates him, then all of a sudden they're together? THE HELL? It's like trying to find consistency in a Twilight novel!

Duncan... okay, never mind that he's been as hollow as (sorry, I can't help myself) a Twilight novel this season, what they did to him this episode was beyond evil. Even a sleep-deprived Duncan is way too smart to be fooled by a booby trap. It's like "Dodgebrawl" and "Are We There Yeti?" never even happened.

Owen. Not my favorite character, but come on! Owen was never mean. The only thing he had going on for him, actually, was the fact that he was anything BUT mean. So yeah, I can't buy that he'd actually enjoy what he's doing to his friends.

And finally, because this was hilarious:

''NightxOwl (PM): AHHHH I just watched The recent episode of TDA!!! Me (PM): I KNOW! ARGHHHHHH!''

THE BRAIN DAMAGE, MAN. IT HURTS.