User blog comment:Reddude/Total Drama Disappointments Nominations Blog/@comment-1874924-20140104180458

I've already given my TDI and whole-franchise disappointment, but here are my biggest disappointments for the other seasons:

TDA: Using returning players instead of new players, then derailing said returners to shoehorn them into the new storylines. As I've said elsewhere, using all new or mostly new players would have avoided most of TDA's problems.

TDWT: The excessive number of contrived eliminations and reprieves, setting the stage for a deeply unsatisfying Final 2. (Note: Chris claimed that his reason for not identifying elimination vs. reward challenges in advance was so the players would try harder, but the real reason was probably to give him more control over the elimination order. If he got an elimination result that he didn't like, he could just say that it was actually a reward challenge.)

TDROTI: The (apparently now permanent) move to half-length seasons. I originally thought that it was a hedge in case the ROTI cast bombed (it didn't, despite its apparent unpopularity on the TD wikis) but now I'm more inclined to think that it was merely a move to cut production costs/time.

TDAS: The dominance of the Mike/Mal storyline--Wifey once called Season 5 "Total Drama Mike"--and the whole All-Stars concept being premature. If Pahkitew had come first, that would have given All Stars three sets of players to draw from, instead of one and a half.