User blog comment:JERealize/Progress Bar: Issue 054 (TDPI Episode 4 Review)/@comment-3350823-20140818032141

I agree with bumping Sugar up, she’s got physical merit. And I agree with the Samey issue, I mean it does weaken the victory a little bit, knowing she has to pretend to be Amy. My fear was that she’d let the power get to her head and become just like Amy, which is a horrible idea I feel.

Personally, I feel it was kind of obvious Amy was going when she cost the team the challenge; it was either going to be her or Samey, and Samey was going to make a stand so it felt like Samey should stay. Amy stealing the apple only sold me more on it. So I don’t think the writers could pull off the surprise of us not knowing it was Sammy (though they could’ve done it different if they wanted it).

The characters are really one-note in hindsight as well. I blame the fact they hardly have any interactions besides a few characters. And yes, Creed is a more dimensional character than Creed xD (and as a side note, Creed might always move up in the rankings, I feel he could he just didn’t leave a good mark on me).

And yeah, this challenge is so recycled I can’t handle it. And the chicken is…yeah weird. And I hate Chris for trying to force out Amy’s secret; Chris is just such an awful character I can’t deal with him.

And it really bugs me how everyone insults Sammy with no reason whatsoever to do so! It’s just cause the writers want to push a point or make a joke, but it makes everyone seem like jerks.

Total Drama really has gotten bad with how it treats people. In Island it felt like the contestants got at least a little respect and nice treatment, and even Heather wasn’t so awful. But now these people aren’t being treated humanely by Chris or even one another. Chris’ blatant bullying of Ella is another example of this. Even the host is going out of the way to harass someone.

I agree with the Lilo and Stich reference too. And I honestly don’t like Empire State of Mind.

Yeah, I didn’t dig the forced Sky and Dave. And the not scoring points and uneven sharing of dares and truth is awful.

I think it’s awful for whoever gets pick for the sudden death because whoever loses the knot tying challenge will go home. I mean, in TDI Courtney didn’t, but I don’t trust later seasons to be that original.

Overall, this episode just felt pointless to me. But another good review JER <3