User blog comment:Freefalling Lilacs/Lilac Ranks Total Drama/@comment-1874924-20140327011824/@comment-2021069-20140329215025

I've never understood why Geoff doesn't get more love. I just thought that the fact that his social abilities carried over to having him take an occasional leadership position was great, especially since the season was lacking them (other than Courtney and Heather, of course.) I think maybe he just didn't stand out enough or his "Captain Hollywood" stage in TDA just turned people off.

The writers didn't even try to hide that Alejandro was a second try at Justin considering that they both had the same women-charming special powers. I think they liked the idea of a womanizing villain but had a poor execution in TDA, so they decided to try again with Alejandro.

As for Owen, I never would have expected to have liked him so much, but he is just the iconic Total Drama character for me. As much as I like the reality show aspect, I think his out of the box humor improved a lot of episodes. As for LTDI's Owen, I think it's only fitting that his tendency to be a walking gas cloud led to his downfall.

There really is no real reason that Harold wouldn't have taken out Duncan. I'm just guessing the writers preferred to have him around than Courtney, so they put their own favoritism over logic.

I think Gwen at least stayed pretty consistent in personality through TDA, or at least more than most of the other characters did, so she has always been near the top of my list no matter how hard some of the episodes had butchered her.

I think I really would've liked Katie and Sadie if they'd stuck around. I'd hoped that the writers would have eliminated one and then let the other stick around for a little. Maybe Lindsay could have taken on Sadie as her BFFF instead of Beth, that way at least one half of the dynamic duo could have gotten even a little character development.

It honestly was difficult for me to do a ranking blog because of the middle spots, and when writing up some of the descriptions the characters' positions were completely shuffled around. It's satisfying to have finally gotten it done, though, even if my favorite characters aren't exactly the popular ones.